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William Daroff, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, applauded the opportunity U.S. President Biden took “to speak about the scourge of anti-Semitism facing our nation and to shine a light on anti-Semitism is a message that all of America must hear.”
“Two of the three incidents occurred on the first night of Hanukkah, which should be a time of celebration, not fear and trauma for our young people,” said Scott Richman, ADL NY/NJ regional director.
“Jewish Canadians are not alone. Hate impacts us all. If we aspire to build a society where everyone truly belongs, then there is no time to lose,” said Richard Marceau of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
The holiday’s message of religious freedom and spiritual light is an antidote to global intolerance, say rabbis.
Douglas G. Schifer, 66, of Bucyrus, Ohio, also made a reference to “gassing Jewish people, chopping them up and burning them in ovens.”
Fethi Nourine announces his retirement after unsuccessfully appealing a 10-year ban from competition that he received for withdrawing from the Tokyo Olympics to avoid potentially facing an Israeli opponent.
“Mind you, it never takes the form of brutal speech or action, but rather, it brews, all the more intensely, under the surface,” wrote the physicist and mathematician in 1936.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews said that “full proscription ends the dangerous loophole via which Hamas can spread its extremist poison here, and raise funds and support in the U.K.”
The role will not require Senate confirmation, allowing him to begin serving immediately as acting envoy until the Senate moves on the nomination of Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt.
Aside from growing violence, major threats in the future point to the alienation of Jews from religious life and social engagement.
Franklin Barrett Sechriest, 18, faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
“It’s the result of a toxic environment where agitators spent years weaponizing debates about municipal policy with an outsized focus on Orthodox Jews, and the commentary loaded with one-sided reporting and flat-out lies,” said the Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council.
