Stay updated with breaking news from James Pasch. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
“She was very shaken up. She’s OK because the bottle missed her,” said the girl’s mother, Rachel Prero. “But she told me that she really appreciated that I didn’t just say, ‘these things happen,’ but rather … let’s take action.”
Head football coach Marcus Wattley and seven assistant coaches at McKinley Senior High School in Canton, Ohio, were suspended last week.
A group of high school coaches in Canton, Ohio, are on administrative leave after forcing a Hebrew Israelite player to eat pork as a punishment for missing practice.
When Justin Shaw heard that Ohio last year experienced the highest number of antisemitic incidents in more than 40 years, he wasn't surprised. The director of Jewish community relations at the area nonprofit JewishColumbus noted that incidents have been rising for the past few years, and with COVID-19, it's become easier for people to harass Jewish people online. "There's been more propaganda, more rhetoric," said Shaw, whose organization is focused on philanthropy and supporting community programs. "Zoom-bombings have been more of an issue, and to be honest, I think some of it is underrep...
0 shares ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt spoke about the organization’s 2020 audit of antisemitic incidents titled "Fighting Hate from Home: 2020 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents & the State of Antisemitism in the U.S." Screenshot by David Rullo. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, and months of restricted activities, the number of antisemitic incidents in the United States remained high in 2020, according to the Anti-Defamation League’s annual audit on antisemitism. The findings were released during an April 27 Zoom webinar during which the ADL reported 2,024 incidents against American Jews...