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The elephant in the room: “The muted response to the string of attacks in NYC shows that mainstream U.S. Jewry is indifferent to Haredim and hesitant to condemn those who target them”

HAARETZ Most U.S. Jews Don’t Care About anti-Semitic Violence Against the ultra-Orthodox by Jonathan S. Tobin December 30, 2019 …Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump conflated opposition to the removal of Confederate statues with support for an August 2017 neo-Nazi … Continue reading

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“Jews have taken and are taking #antisemitism very seriously. Non-Jews must do the same”

THE ATLANTIC Jews Are Going Underground by Deborah Lipstadt December 29, 2019 In a month of terrible anti-Semitic attacks, including a stabbing yesterday of multiple people at a Hanukkah celebration at a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, the news … Continue reading

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Smoke dope, butcher a Jew and walk away a free man: “French court rules Kobili Traore can’t be held criminally responsible for #SarahHalimi’s killing because he was in a psychotic state from marijuana use”

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Fieldston, “elite New York private school, founded by Jews, is rocked by allegations of systemic anti-Semitism”

TABLET MAG Pride and Prejudice at Fieldston by Sean Cooper December 18, 2019 On Thursday, Nov. 21, a week before Thanksgiving, 500 high school students settled into their seats in the auditorium of the Fieldston School’s main campus… The invited … Continue reading

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“The American Jewish establishment needs Trump to be an anti-Semite to justify its continued support for the Democratic Party”

JNS Why American Jews slander President Trump by Caroline Glick December 15, 2019 …And while it is true that to date, white supremacist anti-Semitism has been the most lethal form of anti-Semitism in America, from a political and social perspective … Continue reading

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“Bernie Sanders has thus far evaded scrutiny over the values he and his campaign share with the Labour Party’s discredited leader”

COMMENTARY Bernie Sanders Has a Big Jeremy Corbyn Problem by Noah Rothman December 13, 2019 Nobody forced Bernie Sanders’s campaign to endorse Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. By the time the Sanders camp’s national organizing director, Clair Sandberg, announced that the … Continue reading

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The Illinois financial crisis: “Outside of unfunded state employee pension obligations, no other challenge facing legislators poses a greater threat to the state’s long-term prosperity”

CRAINS The other financial storm threatening to capsize Illinois’ economy by Joe Cahill December 10, 2019 We’ll soon find out if Illinois lawmakers are serious about easing the state’s unsustainable property tax burden. As you may know, Illinois has the … Continue reading

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“Kosher store opened by Leah Mindel Ferencz, who was killed in attack, and her husband, was a foundation stone of new community of Hasidic Jews escaping Brooklyn’s high prices”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Orthodox Jews tried to build a home in Jersey City, the shooting won’t end it by Ben Sales and Laura E. Adkins December 11, 2019 Every Friday afternoon, Leah Mindel Ferencz would cook hot kugel and cholent … Continue reading

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Executive order to protects Jewish students “will effectively interpret Judaism as a race or nationality, not just a religion” but J Street opposes it

WASHINGTON POST Trump’s expected executive order on campus anti-Semitism draws praise and concern by Laura Meckler, Julie Zauzmer and Ashley Parker December 11, 2019 President Trump plans to sign an executive order Wednesday that defines the Jewish people as a … Continue reading

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“The global surge in Jew-hatred barely registers in the West”

NEW YORK TIMES Inconvenient Murders by Bari Weiss December 5, 2019 Two years ago, a 27-year-old man named Kobili Traoré walked into the Paris apartment of a 65-year-old kindergarten teacher named Sarah Halimi. Mr. Traoré beat Ms. Halimi and stabbed … Continue reading

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