Antisemitism
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Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun urged Lithuania to block the construction of a conference or cultural center on an ancient burial ground razed under Soviet rule.
ACOM said Prime Minister Sánchez does not represent the Iberian nation and that a new government could rapidly improve ties with the Jewish state.
Actor and co-creator of the series shared the difficulties in filming abroad in the wake of the Hamas-led massacre and rising antisemitism.
“Not everyone can go to a rally,” Aaron Herman, who leads the nonprofit IMPACT, told JNS. “Not everyone can go out in the streets, but they can go from their couch.”
Jackie Nirenberg, regional director of ADL Austin, told JNS that many participants “were genuinely surprised by what they learned about the Jewish community.”
“By welcoming Mamdani into a Jewish space as if he were safe, we tell Jews to lower their guard and tell everyone else that our concerns are overblown,” Inna Vernikov told JNS. “They are not.”
UCLA law professor Jon Michaels told JNS that a forthcoming “Cardozo Law Review” essay is a “reckoning with what Jewish plaintiffs, and plaintiffs who are coded as Jewish allies, are confronting.”
“The fact that Jewish communal spending has shot up 33% is a measure of how much more dangerous life has become for Jewish Americans,” stated Eric Fingerhut, president and CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America.
Olivér Várhelyi said Europe cannot claim Jewish life belongs while making religious practice “increasingly difficult, if not impossible.”
“It’s laughable,” Sam Markstein told JNS, after the antisemitic Muslim advocacy group called the RJC “anti-Muslim extremists.”
The U.S. vice president defended his relationship with the conservative commentator, who has faced criticism over his anti-Israel rhetoric and interview with Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.
“Though every form of antisemitism is repugnant, its spread within healthcare settings is particularly enraging,” Kenneth Marcus of the Brandeis Center said, citing the threat it poses to patients and medical professionals.
