JERUSALEM — As rockets from Gaza streaked overhead, Arabs and Jews fought each other on the streets below and rioters torched vehicles, a restaurant and a synagogue in one of the worst spasms of communal violence Israel has seen in years. The mayor of the mixed town of Lod, which...
New Survey of US Jews Reveals Worries, Strengths, Divisions
A comprehensive new survey of Jewish Americans finds them increasingly worried about antisemitism, proud of their cultural heritage and sharply divided about the importance of religious observance in their lives. The survey, released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, estimated the total Jewish population in the country at 7.5 million...
Linda Sarsour and David Duke Are Kindred Spirits of Worst Kind
Despite claiming to be a self-described opponent of “white supremacy” and liberal social justice champion, prominent Islamist activist Linda Sarsour’s recent comments about Jews are identical to the sentiments promoted by white supremacist David Duke in his 2001 book “Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question.” Sarsour was accused of anti-Semitism when...
Tragedies Deepen Jewish-Muslim Bonds to Fight Hate Crimes
NEW YORK — Muslim groups helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue recover after a gunman killed 11 people there, one year ago this week. The Jewish congregation mounted its own fundraiser for New Zealand’s Muslims after a white supremacist shooter killed 51 people at...
Armenian, Jewish Groups Upset Over Exclusion in State Curriculum
According to a draft proposal of the state's ethnic studies model curriculum, Armenians and Jews aren't worthy of inclusion. Neither are their genocides. Organizations representing both groups want that fixed. Listen to this article: The curriculum is supposed to make California high school students more aware of...
Chabad Fresno Gathers to Remember Poway Shooting Victims
Rabbi Levy Zirkind took the shooting Saturday (April 27) in Poway personally. He knows Chabad of Poway Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein. The two attended Yeshiva (seminary) together in Brooklyn during the 1980s. Zirkind’s son, Rabbi Mendel Zirkind, is friends with Goldstein’s son. Their wives went to school together as well. Both...
How Muslims in Albania Saved Jews From the Holocaust
Most anywhere else in Nazi-occupied Europe, a run-in with authorities by a Jewish family probably would have resulted in severe malnutrition, eventual starvation, or execution. Not so in Albania. Following the German occupation in 1943, the Albanian population, the majority of whom were Muslims, refused to comply with the occupier’s...
Auschwitz Survivors Pay Homage as World Remembers Holocaust
WARSAW, Poland — The world marked International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday amid a revival of hate-inspired violence and signs that younger generations know less and less about the genocide of Jews, Roma and others by Nazi Germany during World War II. As survivors of Auschwitz marked the 74th anniversary...
Rep. Omar Apologizes for 'Unknowingly' Using 'Anti-Semitic Trope'
Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress, took to Twitter to apologize for a 2012 tweet in which she said that "Israel has hypnotized the world, may Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. #Gaza #Palestine #Israel." At the...
Police: Synagogue Gunman Said He Wanted All Jews to Die
PITTSBURGH — The suspect in the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue expressed hatred of Jews during the rampage and told officers afterward that Jews were committing genocide and that he wanted them all to die, according to charging documents made public Sunday. Robert Gregory Bowers killed eight men and...