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The pledged funding will go towards enriching Yad Vashem’s world-renowned International Institute for Holocaust Research and the creation of two new “Book of Names.”
Rabbi Shlomo Litvin, chairman of the Kentucky Jewish Council, explained that the phrase “Jews them down, is an extremely offensive one, with a long and bloody history of use against the Jewish community. We were shocked to hear that term in a public forum.”
Vermont senatorial candidate Brock Pierce told JNS that Ben & Jerry’s “should stick to being involved in ice cream” and stay out of politics.
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.
The Baker administration also released its 2020 Massachusetts Hate Crimes Report, compiled from data submitted by law-enforcement agencies across the state.
Conservative group leader Caroline Clapper, along with fellow Conservative councilors Morris Bright, John Graham and Seamus Quilty, stand “united” in their opposition to anti-Israel boycotts.
School officials found 20 swastikas on campus, in addition to a note that targeted the school’s African-American community.
“The great importance of free media must come with great responsibility,” says Yaakov Shabtai, after a Justice Ministry investigation finds no evidence to support media reports of police misconduct.
Chancellor Robert Jones: “Sneaking around and delivering hateful, hurtful and racist messages in plastic sandwich bags filled with gravel is a cowardly and craven way to spew hate and division in our community.”
“While these symbols of hate can be removed from our campuses, the lasting impact on our community cannot,” said Manhattan Beach Unified board of trustees president Sally Peel.
While the Israel Police and the Attorney General’s Office have pushed back against allegations of illegal evidence-gathering, senior Hebrew University lecturer Gadi Taub dismissed the responses as “spin.”
He was a state’s attorney when he worked on gathering evidence against Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi mastermind of the “Final Solution,” under prosecutor Gideon Hausner during the 1961 trial in Jerusalem.
