A 23-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman was hospitalized with a concussion on Sunday after she was attacked on a subway train in Manhattan by a fellow passenger who said “Jews are eating kids.” The assailant, 34-year-old Bronx resident Diana Smith, began making antisemitic remarks aboard a C-train before zeroing in on the victim. The young woman […]
Dr. Susannah Heschel is the Eli Black Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College and a leading scholar of modern Jewish history, German-Jewish thought, and antisemitism. Heschel has spent decades examining how antisemitic hatred operates. In her recent article, Antisemitism as Cultural Sadism: An Erohistorical Approach, she explores the sadistic gratification that antisemitism can
Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) African-American Alliance Manager Dazia Wallerson was among the more than 100 leaders from across the United States who participated last week in the inaugural National Convening of the Black-Jewish Alliance in Miami, Florida. Hosted by the Exodus Leadership Forum and Redstone Family Foundation, the forum — the first-of-its kind in more
German authorities have opened an investigation after an Israeli family attempting to book a room at Hotel Zum Hirschen in Lam, Bavaria, received a message through Booking.com on June 2 stating: “Sorry, there are no Jews allowed in our hotel.” After the family filed a complaint, Booking.com removed the hotel, a 120-year-old family-run establishment near
A suspect deliberately ignited a fire in the communal stairwell of a residential building in London’s Golders Green neighborhood on Tuesday, in what community security group Shomrim was treating as an act of arson on a block inhabited predominantly by Jewish families. Residents witnessed the individual set the fire and challenged him before he fled
On the first anniversary of the deadly antisemitic firebombing in Boulder, Colorado, that killed an elderly Jewish woman, Boulder Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) released a statement defending the terrorist who perpetrated the attack. The now-deleted statement, also published by Direct Confrontation Media, honored Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the Egyptian man who, on June 1,
