LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police on Tuesday arrested a second suspect in an alleged assault by a pro-Palestinian group on Jewish men outside a restaurant last week. Samer Jayylusi, 35, of Whittier was arrested in Anaheim and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, a police statement...
US Jews Plan Smaller Hanukkah Celebrations Amid Virus
Jewish Americans from a variety of branches of the faith are celebrating Hanukkah with smaller-than-usual gatherings this year, in hopes of keeping the year-end holiday safe but still joyful as coronavirus cases spike across the country. Many Jewish Americans are already accustomed to more intimate celebrations of a holiday focused...
Trump Camp Hopes Mideast Pacts Translate to Jewish Support
Jewish American voters have leaned Democratic for decades, but Republicans are hoping the recent steps toward normalized relations between Gulf states and Israel — which Trump vigorously touted earlier this month — bolster his appeal to Jewish voters. With battleground states like Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan collectively decided in 2016...
Stabbings, Shootings, Assaults Weigh on US Jewish Youth
NEW YORK — When a man spewed anti-Semitic slurs and spat on her face, Shoshana Blum remembered her ancestors who survived the Holocaust, and instead of looking down - she defiantly stared at him eye to eye. The 20-year-old junior at City College of New York left the subway in...
Anti-Semitism Grows in Jewish Communities in NYC Suburbs
MONSEY, N.Y. — For years, ultra-Orthodox Jewish families priced out of increasingly expensive Brooklyn neighborhoods have been turning to the suburbs, where they have taken advantage of open space and cheaper housing to establish modern-day versions of the European shtetls where their ancestors lived for centuries before the Holocaust. The...
Gunmen Targeted Jewish Market, Jersey City Mayor Says
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The gunmen in a furious firefight that left six people dead in Jersey City clearly targeted a Jewish market, the mayor said Wednesday, fueling growing suspicions the bloodshed was an anti-Semitic attack. Mayor Steven Fulop refused to call it an anti-Semitic attack but said surveillance video...
'OK' Hand Gesture, 'Bowlcut' Added to Hate Symbols Database
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The "OK" hand gesture, a mass killer's bowl-style haircut and an anthropomorphic moon wearing sunglasses are among 36 new entries in a Jewish civil rights group's online database of hate symbols used by white supremacists and other far-right extremists. The Anti-Defamation League has added the symbols...
Critic of Israel's Treatment of Palestinians Speaks in Fresno
America's foreign policy in Israel is being guided by neoconservatives whose plan is to build up Israel while destabilizing nearby countries — and American tax dollars are helping to pay for it, author Alison Weir said Wednesday evening at Clovis Community College. Weir, a longtime critic of Israel's treatment of...
Israeli Troops Search West Bank After Killing of Soldier
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops raided a Palestinian village on Thursday and the military said it was sending reinforcements to the West Bank, hours after the body of a 19-year-old soldier with stab wounds was found near a Jewish settlement. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the killing as a terror attack...
Israeli Troops Search West Bank After Killing of Soldier
JERUSALEM — Israeli troops raided a Palestinian village on Thursday and the military said it was sending reinforcements to the West Bank, hours after the body of a 19-year-old soldier with stab wounds was found near a Jewish settlement. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the killing as a terror attack...