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Anti-Semitic incidents more than doubled in May compared to last year following Mideast violence, Anti-Defamation League reports CNN 1 hr ago © KOLD Anti-Semitic graffiti was sprayed on the Chabad on River Synagogue. Police in Arizona are investigating after a spray-painted swastika and an anti-Semitic slur were found on the door of a Tucson synagogue. "The congregation is really disappointed. Were really taken aback," Rabbi Ram Bigelman of the Chabad on River synagogue told CNN on Tuesday...

The feeling is devastating: Tucson synagogue vandalized with swastika, anti-Semitic slur BrieAnna J. Frank, Arizona Republic © Chabad Tucson Rabbi Rami Bigelman and Rabbi Yehuda Ceitlin speak with the media at Chabad on River in Tucson on June 8, 2021. Tucson police are investigating after the Chabad on River synagogue was vandalized with a swastika and an anti-Semitic slur over the weekend. Tucson police spokesperson Officer Frank Magos said the vandalism happened sometime...

A synagogue in Tucson, Ariz., was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti over the weekend, the second such incident to occur in the city in less than a month.

Multiple antisemitic incidents reported over the weekend across US   June 4, 2021 (JTA) — At least four cases of intimidation or assault against Jews have been reported in the United States since Thursday, in a continuation of what many fear is one of the country’s worst spate in years of antisemitic violence. On Saturday, six men assaulted and punched two Jewish teenagers in Brooklyn on 18th Avenue and Ocean Parkway, reported VINnews. The news site interviewed Mitchel Schwartz, the father...

An online rally urged people to share images on social media decrying anti-Semitism and to contact their elected officials—from their local mayor to their senator—and ask them to take a stand on the wave of Jew-hatred that has swept America and the world.

When Jews are attacked in Americas streets, who speaks out?

Jews constitute just 2 percent of the US population, but they are the victims in more than 60 percent of religion-based hate crimes.

FOR THE LAST few years, in the wake of the 2018 Tree of Life massacre in Pittsburgh, the doors to my Brookline synagogue have been kept locked. Anyone arriving for Sabbath morning services has been allowed to enter only after being approved by the security guard hired to ensure we can pray in safety. But last Saturday, there was an extra layer of protection. A police cruiser was parked directly in front: a warning to anyone who might show up to threaten or commit violence. Fortunately there was...

“We fear that the way the conflict has been used to amplify antisemitic rhetoric, embolden dangerous actors and attack Jews and Jewish communities will have ramifications far beyond these past two weeks,” the Friday letter said, according to the Washington Post. We “urge you to speak out forcefully against this dangerous trend and stand alongside the Jewish community in the face of this wave of hate before it gets any worse.” Biden’s statement was echoed Monday by US Vice President Ka...

At least four cases of intimidation or assault against Jews have been reported in the United States since Thursday, in a continuation of what many fear is one of the country’s worst spate in years of antisemitic violence. On Saturday, six men assaulted and punched two Jewish teenagers in Brooklyn on 18th Avenue and Ocean Parkway, VINnews reported. The news site interviewed Mitchel Schwartz, the father of one of the teenagers. One of the men told the teenagers “free Palestine” and made a...