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With Israel under Attack, Watch for Progressive Anti-Semitism | Opinion Abraham Cooper and Johnnie Moore On 5/13/21 at 6:00 AM EDT When George Washington wrote to the Hebrew Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1790, he declared that America should give "bigotry no sanction." In 2021, that remains a tall order. Not only does history's oldest virus—anti-Semitism—today receive 24/7 assistance from social media, but it metastasizes as quickly as deadly new strains of COVID-19, spawning Jew-hatred and hate crimes here and abroad. Ever since the infamous Charlottesville...

Weekly roundup of world briefs   Kerry denies claim he informed Iran of Israeli strikes in Syria (JNS) — U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry on Monday denied allegations that he had discussed covert Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria with Iran’s foreign minister. “I can tell you that this story and these allegations are unequivocally false. This never happened—either when I was Secretary of State or since,” Kerry tweeted on Monday night. Kerry was responding to a leaked audio recording of a closed-door discussion involving Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif ...

Newspaper from 1790 featuring George Washington’s address to Savannah’s Jewish community to be auctioned in Los Angeles A 1790 newspaper featuring an address by President George Washington to Savannah's Jewish community will be auctioned later this week in Los Angeles. (Source: Nate D. Sanders Auctions) By Laura Garrison | April 26, 2021 at 3:22 PM EDT - Updated April 26 at 3:38 PM LOS ANGELES (WTOC) - History buffs have the opportunity to bid on an early piece of American — and Savannah — history later this week. A newspaper featuring a printing of George Washingto...

Free Speech and the American Way Second in a Six-Part Series by Larry Greenfield zimmytws/Getty Images THE ENGLISH TRADITION If the Ark of the Covenant—that is, our modern religious views of speech—commands morality in our speech and deference to religious authority and the sovereignty of God, the arc of western legal tradition defends our natural right to speak our mind as sovereign individuals. An important early advocate for the right of publishers to print ideas without prepublication censorship was English poet and politician John Milton. In 1644, before he went blind and later wrot...

Laurie Cardoza-Moore: Get Holocaust education into schools, anti-Semitism out   Laurie Cardoza-Moore In 1994 the state legislature mandated that Holocaust education must be taught in Florida public schools. At that time, the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center was one of 27 members of the Florida Department of Education's Task Force on Holocaust Education. Under the leadership of Tess Wise, founder of the Center, they provided educational resources to a 13-county area, which included instructional materials, best practices and professional development. According to the Center's we...