Simon Wiesenthal Center
A fight broke outside of the event between Jewish and pro-Palestinian students, who chanted “Free, free, Palestine” and “Viva, Viva Intifada!”
The Jewish Community of Lithuania called for the removal of a new plaque that has replaced the one they and the Simon Wiesenthal Center have lobbied for years to have removed.
“This is outrageous,” said Simon Wiesenthal Center founder and dean Marvin Hier. “At a time when anti-Semitism is so prevalent all over the world, we discover that in our own backyard an LA Junior Kings hockey team made anti-Semitic remarks and Nazi salutes mocking Jews.”
No. 1: The deadliest attack in U.S. Jewish history, when 11 worshippers were shot and killed during Shabbat-morning services on Oct. 27 at the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha Synagogue.
House to vote on awarding medal to late rabbi who saved Slovakian Jews during Shoah
Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl used his contacts from Great Britain to obtain visas, becoming one of the first to protect European Jewry.
Were the bill to become law, the president would be required to fill the position within 90 days.