Anti Semitism

For Jewish Orthodox Children: No Justice -- No Peace

Rabbi Asher Lipner, Ph.D. | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Judaism, Anti-Semitism, Sex Abuse, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Charles Hynes, Orthodox Judaism, Clergy Sex Abuse, Jewish Social Justice, Religion News

Jewish children will only be safe when Jewish and non-Jewish people of good conscience work together to demand that the rabbis stop covering up abuse, and that the prosecutors use all their resources and authority to bring the abusers to justice.

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Vatican Says Unity With Traditionalists Needs 'Further Discussions'

Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Second Vatican Council, Anti-Semitism, Catholic Theology, Video, Society of St. Pius X, Catholic Traditionalists, Vatican, Sspx, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic-Church, Religion News

By Alessandro Speciale Religion News Service VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican's doctrinal office said "further discussions" will be needed with the ...

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Holocaust Denial: Assaults On Collective Memory Becloud Europe's Future

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Europe, Genocide, Judaism, Holocaust Remembrance, Holocaust Denial, Holocaust Survivors, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Religion News

No crime in the annals of history has been as well documented as Nazi Germany's Final Solution. Against this backdrop, how do we account for the growing phenomenon of Holocaust revisionism and denial?

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When Bigotry Is A Mirror

James Peron | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Gay, Racism, Bigotry, Gay Voices News

Some assume that quoting an anti-gay gay means they aren't bigoted. Citing a bigot, even one who is a member of the group against whom he is bigoted, does not exonerate you. If anything, it shows how desperate you are to justify your position.

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How The Jewish Community Can Forgive Delmon Young

Rabbi Yonah Bookstein | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Teshuva, Baseball, Delmon Young, Judaism, Forgiveness, Detroit Tigers, Religion News

The power of teshuva can turn this hurtful incident into a one that teaches compassion and love.

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Cops: White Supremacists Plotted Attack On Orlando City Hall

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Osceola County Florida, White Supremacists, Orlando Joint Terrorism Task Force, American Front, Osceola County, Florida Crime, White Supremisist Plot an Attack on Orlando, Fbi, American Front News, White Supremacist in Osceola County Floria, Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation, Slideexpand, Osceola County Arrests for Hate Crime, American Front Arrests, Osceola County Sheriff's Office, Norma Black, Video, White Supremacist Group Arrested in Florida, Anti-Defamation League, Mark McGowan Jr., White Supremacist Group Orlando, Marcus Faella, Osceola County News, Patricia Faella, Miami News

Police in Central Florida say members of a white supremacist group were plotting to kill Jews, minorities, and immigrants in the area with plans that ...

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What People of Conscience Need to Know about Norway

Dr. Michael Sharnoff | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Human Rights, Middle East, International Relations, Norway, Israel, European Union, Foreign Policy, Anti Semitism, Civil Rights, World News, Norwegian Politics, Norway Israel Relations, Scandinavia, World News

Norway has never posed a direct threat to Israel nor has it advocated Israel's liquidation. However, many in its government, and some large businesses, have recently displayed a pattern of strong anti-Israel and often anti-Semitic attitudes.

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Thoughts Born From Yom HaShoah 2012

Rabbi Ted Falcon | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance, Judaism, Religion News

There is no adequate way to embrace the horrors of annihilation, of the Jewish people and of so many others, during those terrible Nazi years. Beyond name though it might be, it is important to remember, not only for our own sake, but also for the world's.

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Eric Cantor Refuses To Discuss Possible Anti-Semitism Among GOP Colleagues

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, House Republican Primary, Republican Primary, Video, Don Manzullo, Adam Kinzinger, Elections 2012, Jewish Republicans, Eric Cantor Jewish, Manzullo Saved, Eric Cantor, Eric Cantor Saved, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) on Thursday defended his decision to give money to an anti-incumbent super PAC to help defeat ...

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On Yom HaShoah, Remember The Innocents

Lea Lane | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Nazis, Judaism, Genocide, Auschwitz, Yam Hashoah, Cecilie Klein, Gender and Religion, Anti-Semitism, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust, Elie Weisel, Religion News

I met Cecilie Klein in the early 1980s. Fragile, intelligent, in her 50s, she was a Holocaust survivor finally ready to tell her experiences. I never forgot her remarkable story.

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Enough of the Jewish Stereotypes

Howard Meyer | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Stereotypes, Jewish Humor, Jewish Comedy, American Jews, Seinfeld, Judaism, Religion News

Nasally voices, anxiety and austerity are not representative of the Jewish community at large. It's not so much that these stereotypes make Jews look meek and cheap; nobody I know even sounds like that.

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If a Nobel Laureate Can't Speak Out, Who Can?

Christina Patterson | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Freedom of Speech, Anti-Semitism, Iran, Gunter Grass, Nuclear Weapons, Israel, Gunter Grass Israel, Gunter Grass Poem, World News

Günter Grass may or may not be right to say, in his poem, that Israel's nuclear weapons are a threat to world peace. But he's right to say that the West's attitude to Israel, and its nuclear arsenal, involves an awful lot of hypocrisy.

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A Guy Looks Wrong. He Gets Hurt. Sound Familiar? Arthur Miller Wrote This Novel in 1945.

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Prejudice, Arthur Miller, Video, Books News

A man walks down a street. He's doing nothing wrong. But someone thinks he looks wrong. And something bad happens. Later, there's sorrow and commenta...

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Revisiting Anti-Zionism And Anti-Semitism

Abraham H. Foxman | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Intifada, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Semitism, Anti-Defamation League, Second Intifada, Palestinians, Zionism, Israel, Abraham Foxman, Judaism, Religion News

In the ongoing discussion about when criticism of Israel can be labeled as anti-Semitism, Nathan Sharansky said that it's anti-Semitism when Israel is demonized, when Israel is delegitimized and when a double-standard is used to assess Israeli behavior.

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WATCH: Is It Anti-Zionism Or Anti-Semitism?

Jacques Berlinerblau | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Hannah Rosenthal, Zionism, The Finkler Question, Israeli Palestinian Conflict, Howard Jacobson, Philip Roth, The Counterlife, Judaism, Video, Religion News

One doesn't spend a quarter-century working in the American academy without coming across all manner of opinionated, irrational and overheated types. None more so than those whose out-of-class activism consists of lambasting the State of Israel.

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One of the Hazards of Falling in Love With Your Characters

Dora Levy Mossanen | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Romanovs, Writing, Books, Nicholas II, Last Romanov, Hazard, Characters, Love, Writing a Novel, Books News

The problem arose when I became more familiar with the Romanovs and the extent of their anti-Semitism. I faced a dilemma. Here was I, a Jewish writer, who had developed deep compassion and even love for my charges.

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Rutgers University Newspaper Under Fire For Hitler Spoof

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Video, The Daily Targum, The Medium, Hitler, College Newspapers, Judaism, Rutgers University, Religion News

By Jessica Calefati and Ryan Hutchins Religion News Service NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (RNS) A satirical student newspaper is under investigation by Rutg...

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Why 'Mad Men' Episode Three 'Burkes' Well

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Mad Men, Mad Men and Sexism, Pete Campbell, Betty Draper, Weight Gain, Henry Francis, Roger Sterling, Mad Men and Anti-Semitism, Betty Draper Fat, Don Draper, Fifty News

Do Roger's remarks "Burke?"

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Wearing My Rainbow Yarmulka With Pride

Chaim Levin | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Yarmulka, Kippah, Orthodox Judaism, Judaism, Religion and Sexuality, Jewish Identity, Gay Jews, LGBT Jews, Religion News

I wear my yarmulka because I am proud: I am Jewish and gay. I am equally proud of both identities and would not want see anyone discriminated against because of either.

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Local Synagogue, School Hit With Anti-Semitic Graffiti

Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Chicago Anti-Semitism, Anti-Semitism, Video, Chicago Synagogue Vandalism, Anshe Emet Chicago Graffiti, Anshe Emet Chicago, Chicago News

A synagogue and school located in Chicago's North Side Lakeview neighborhood was vandalized overnight Tuesday with anti-Semitic hate graffiti includin...

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China's Outrageous Comparison Of The Dalai Lama To Nazis

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Dalai Lama, Tibet, Holocaust, China, Anti-Semitism, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Religion News

The Simon Wiesenthal Center has the greatest regard for the Dalai Lama and his efforts on behalf of his people. Our Center honored him with our Humanitarian Prize in 1996, and he has always served as a role model for dissent with dignity.

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France: United in Grief, but for How Long?

Symi Rom-Rymer | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jews, North African, French, Muslims, France, Mohammed Merah, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Francois Mitterand, Nicolas Sarkozy, World News

In recent decades, French society has become increasingly divided. Social ills have become more increasingly apparent but little has been done to address them.

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Modern Anti-Semitism Has Found a Good Cause

Lilac Sigan | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Semitism, Hamas, Toulouse Shooting, World News

The serial killer in France that shot 3 little children coming out of school, one of them an 8-year-old girl that was grabbed by her hair and shot in ...

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'Bad Things Don't Happen Here'

Carly Loper | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Toulouse, Terror, Toulouse Shooter, Offthebus, France, Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Joliment, Politics News

Toulouse is a smaller city where everyone knows everyone. It's charming and peaceful. Bad things don't happen here. Many people at school, including students in my class, knew the victims.

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Anti-Semitism Is Rising In Europe, According To Latest Report

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Judaism, Anti-Semitism Europe Rising, Interfaith, Anti-Semitism Europe, Anti-Semitism Europe Increase, Anti-Semitism Europe Increasing, Anti-Semitism in Europe, Video, Religion News

By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Days after a lone gunman murdered a rabbi and three children at a Jewish school in Toulous...

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