simmons | March 11, 2017
ATLANTA -- Amid a surge of bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish institutions nationwide, members of Atlanta's Jewish community have felt a familiar wave of apprehension about what might come next. In this Oct. 13, 1958, file photo, authorities investigate the scene of a bomb blast at The Temple on Peachtree Street in Atlanta
simmons | March 11, 2017
Following a Feb. 20 bomb threat, which caused La Jolla's Jewish Community Center to be closed and evacuated, officials are struggling to explain why and what can be done about it. It was the third similar threat this year at the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center at 4126 Executive Drive
richards | March 11, 2017
The Seattle synagogue Temple De Hirsch Sinai was vandalized with graffiti saying The Holocaust is fake history. Its rabbi responded: Were not going to allow those who terrorize us to define us. A synagogue in the Capitol Hill neighborhood was vandalized overnight Thursday with anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying graffiti, said Rabbi Daniel Weiner of Temple De Hirsch Sinai
richards | March 11, 2017
Spray-painted message says The Holocaust is fake history.
richards | March 11, 2017
NEW YORK The day after the presidential election, as congregants gathered in her Brooklyn synagogue to air their feelings, Rabbi Rachel Timoner was already starting to organize against the incoming administration. She called her local city councilman, Democrat Brad Lander, and together they organized an activists panel at her congregation, Beth Elohim, to discuss policy changes under President Donald Trump. More than 1,000 people packed the sanctuary for the event
richards | March 11, 2017
Devin Naar says Ladino connects Jews with Latinos and Muslims, two communities he considers marginalized in Trumps America. (Meryl Schenker Photography/The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at Washington University) (JTA) One-year-old Vidal doesnt know the significance behind the lullaby his father sings him at bedtime. He knows it helps him fall asleep, but notthat the Ladino song is part of an effort to teach himwhat served asthe lingua franca of Sephardi Jews of the Ottoman Empire for over 500 years
richards | March 11, 2017
The friends of former Knesset Member Sharon Gal (Yisrael Beytenu), who is currently hanging out at the Big Brother house, sent a helicopter up to the sky with the sign If a Zionist is a racist, Im proud to be racist. It would have been more accurate to write, If being a racist is Zionist, Im proud to be a Zionist, as Gals Zionism is not the fulfillment or the creation of an exemplary Jewish society.
richards | March 11, 2017
The Sandy Koufax precedent On a completely different note, why is this team so good? Arent Jews in the Diaspora supposed to be studious scholars who pore over books all day?
richards | March 11, 2017
Palestinian man alleged to be part of terror cell killed in shootout with Israeli troops JERUSALEM (JTA)A Palestinian man who allegedly was part of a terror cell planning attack on Israeli targets was killed in a gunfight with Israeli troops in the West Bank.
richards | March 11, 2017
ATLANTA -- Amid a surge of bomb threats and vandalism at Jewish institutions nationwide, members of Atlanta's Jewish community have felt a familiar wave of apprehension about what might come next. In this Oct
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