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Faygie Holt

Faygie Holt

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

“People did not believe in their wildest dreams that such a thing would happen. That in 2022, we are going to talk about a full invasion and all-out bombardment of cities. This is literally coming out of 1941,” says Rabbi Yechiel Shlomo Levitansky.
“Campuses today are as politically charged and polarized as I’ve ever seen them, with zero tolerance for individuals whose identities, beliefs or opinions run afoul of dominant campus ideologies,” said Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of the AMCHA Initiative.
At Valley Park Middle School, a student in an 8th-grade class shouted “Heil Hitler” from his desk as two other students stood on a filing cabinet and performed a Nazi salute.
Every Saturday morning for 18 years, protesters have gathered outside Beth Israel Congregation in Ann Arbor, Mich., as congregants arrived for services carrying signs such as “Israel: No right to exist,” “Jewish power corrupts” and “Israel attacked America 9/11/2001.”
A former board member of the Jewish Community Center in Louisville, Craig Greenberg says that Judaism plays a “very important part of my life and my family’s life.”
The Anti-Defamation League New York/New Jersey region tweeted that the image “draws from the worst of millennia-old anti-Semitic tropes about Jews.”
A total of 2,255 incidents of Jew-hatred were recorded last year in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, up from the 1,684 the previous year.
Moreover, some 32 percent of parents say their children have been the target of anti-Semitic insults, with 18 percent say their children have been physically attacked in 2021.
In a video, driver Donny Klarmann and his friend, Brandon Ebbs, can be heard laughing as the snowplow is turned in the direction of two Jewish men walking during Shabbat.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer took to social media to express his disgust, saying “anti-Semitism and hatred are not welcome in this community. Despite displays of hate in Central Florida, our collective commitment to building an inclusive, compassionate community for all is stronger than ever.”
Captured surveillance footage of a London bus in the Jewish section of Stamford Hill. Jan, 29, 2022. Source: Shomrim/Twitter.
Passengers on London bus shout slur in heavily Jewish neighborhood
Member of Parliament Diane Abbott tweeted: “Shocking abuse and harassment of Orthodox Jews in Stamford Hill Hackney. Important that the perpetrators are swiftly brought to justice.”
The curriculum, adopted under state legislation that mandates ethnic studies, came despite strong opposition from students, parents and Jewish community clergy and leaders.