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Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt is the columns editor and editor of the JNS Wire.

“Someone came and tried to make Jewish students feel attacked; our response was to do the opposite,” said Rabbi Yudi Steiner, director of the Rohr Chabad at GW.
“As a native Texan, this breaks my heart,” said Rabbi Kelly Levy of Congregation Beth Israel. “We will be compassionate and resolute because our love for humanity strengthens our resistance to hatred.”
Rabbi Yudi Steiner, director of the Rohr Chabad at GW, said “what I’m hoping to do today is lead by example and model how I think the Jewish response, from Jewish students especially, should be, and that is what we will talk about the rally.”
In the last two years, day schools and yeshivahs reported an enrollment increase of 3.7 percent, with more than 40,000 children from kindergarten to grade 12 enrolled.
A member of the anti-Semitic Goyim Defense League stood atop a highway overpass not too far from the Dell JCC, gave the Nazi salute and unfurled a banner that read “Vax the Jews.”
“That one in four American Jews has been the target of anti-Semitism over the past year alone, and that four out of 10 have taken steps to conceal their Jewishness or curtail their activities as a result should alarm Americans,” said AJC CEO David Harris in a statement. “Now is the time for American society to stand up and say ‘Enough is enough.’ ”
More than 30 museums throughout Alaska have also expressed their solidarity with the Jewish museum, issuing a letter of support, and against bigotry and anti-Semitism.
The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, which was “appalled” by the district’s actions, placed some of the blame on new legislation—new state law HB 3979.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven: “Anti-Semitism differs from other forms of racism; [it] is in itself a conspiracy theory based on notions of Jewish powers and Jewish interest, and the secret desire to rule the world. It is a specific toxic form that drives conspiracy theories.”
“This is an unprecedented and vital document that will act as a roadmap to significantly reduce anti-Semitism in Europe and beyond,” said Moshe Kantor, president of the European Jewish Congress.
A lawsuit claimed that political sociology professor David Miller violated the country’s equity laws and that his comments in a February Zoom session amounted to the harassment of Jewish students.
It is “a significant step forward in protecting our people,” said Michael Masters, national director and CEO of SCN.