I started my writing career roughly thirty years ago with an opinion piece for the leftist Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. The article dealt with the shocking revelations about new concentration camps in former Yugoslavia and an anti-Semitic attack on the Auschwitz monument in a park in Amsterdam. “Never again” said the text on the monument […]
How Jewish organizations train people to prevent shootings like the one in Poway. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein said his Chabad of Poway could not afford to hire an armed guard. Had it been able, or if the government had helped the synagogue bring in one, he believes the deadly attack there Saturday could have been averted. […]
(CNSNews.com) – An emotional Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, at a Sunday afternoon news conference, thanked President Donald Trump for his words of “comfort and consolation” following the shooting on Saturday at a synagogue near San Diego. “I see a sight that is indescribable,” Goldstein said, as he described the act of evil on the final day […]
By Victor Garcia | Fox News After apologizing over the weekend for publishing a syndicated cartoon with “anti-Semitic tropes” in its depiction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump, The New York Times was criticized again Monday over yet another caricature of Netanyahu. Dan Senor, a former Pentagon aide and advisor to Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, called […]
Organizers canceled a conference at a Paris university featuring an address by Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut following the threat of protests. “Security is our top priority and it’s preferable to take no risks,” organizers of the event at Sciences Po university wrote Tuesday. The conference on Europe’s future was to include other speakers, but they […]
A Chabad rabbi and his wife were violently assaulted during a home invasion at a Chabad House in Nairobi, Kenya before dawn early Wednesday morning. Burglars broke into the Chabad house in Nairobi, which is operated by Israeli native Rabbi Shmuel Notik and his wife, Chaya, who operate the Jewish center for travelers in the […]
A Washington state man out on bail after being charged with two felonies for posting plans on Facebook to commit a mass shooting against Jewish targets has posted more violent messages and threats against Jews. Dakota Reed, 20, had been out of jail on $50,000 bond since December. But in the wake of the new […]
An arson fire was set at the largest yeshiva in Russia as during a Passover Seder on Friday, Jewish officials said, according to The Associated Press. No one was reported injured in the fire at the Torat Chaim school in an eastern Moscow suburb. Olga Esaulova, a spokeswoman for Moscow’s chief rabbi, was quoted by […]
An anti-Semitic tirade in a Northern Ireland bar filmed by Jewish director and author Tuvia Tenenbom is being investigated by police. Someone who saw the video on social media apparently filed the complaint. Tenenbom, who has written several books that explore how Jews are viewed in the world, including “Catch the Jew,” was in Northern […]
Yorai Feinberg was taking a break outside his Berlin restaurant when a man screamed at him: “Go back to your gas chambers!” Shaken by the abuse, the 37-year-old Israeli posted a video of the December 2017 incident, filmed by his friend, on social media. The video went viral and unleashed a torrent of anti-Semitic hate […]
