Category Archives: World
Mnuchin Upset At Trump Over Charlottesville — But Stays Silent
Getty Images Steve Mnuchin Two Jewish advisers stood next to President Trump when he delivered his comments comparing neo-Nazis to those who protested against them. Read more » »
This Flow Chart Shows Why Israel Is Bad At Condemning Nazis
A blogger for the Hebrew language edition of Haaretz tweeted out a „Starter chart to the [Israeli] right” in the aftermath of the events in Charlottesville this past weekend. The chart cheekily suggests that Israel’s right is friends with Nazis who support Israeli, and hate non-Nazis who hate Israel. Read more » »
Neo-Nazi Daily Stormer Sued By Comedian Amidst Internet Crackdown
The comedian and writer Dean Obeidallah filed a defamation lawsuit against the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer on Wednesday, just as the site has been booted from a series of online hosts over the last two days. Read more » »
Queens Museum Reinstates Israel Event After Outcry
NEW YORK (JTA ) — The Queens Museum will host an event commemorating the United Nations decision to establish a Jewish state, reversing a decision to cancel it. The museum, run by the New York City borough of Queens, is housed in the same building where the General Assembly vote partitioning Palestine into Jewish and Arab states took place on Nov. Read more » »
Johnny Cash’s family slams neo-Nazi who wore fan shirt: ‘We were sickened’
www.jta.org/wp-content/uplo… 156w, www.jta.org/wp-content/uplo… 350w, www.jta.org/wp-content/uplo… 768w” sizes=”(max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px”> Johnny Cash on his television series, “The Johnny Cash Show,” circa 1968. Read more » »
Art, history converge in Grunwald archive
On an early May morning in the mid-1930s, Gestapo officials barged into Fred Grunwald’s apartment building near Düsseldorf, demanding of the landlady, „Where is the Jew?”Once inside the businessman’s home, the officers declared that because he was a leader of the local B’nai B’rith lodge, they would search his apartment and arrest him. Read more » »
Swampscott project facing final Appeal
Rendering for Senior Residences at the Machon. (Courtesy Photo) SWAMPSCOTT — Plans for the affordable senior housing redevelopment of the shuttered Machon Elementary School continue to move forward. Read more » »
Silence Unacceptable When Nazis Are Marching in America
In the wake of Charlottesville, in the wake of the hate language spewing online and offline, in the wake of hate crimes that led to the vandalization — twice — of the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, in the wake of people of color and Read more » »
Region mit vielen Gesichtern
Im August, denkt man, ist nichts los, alle sind im Urlaub. Doch das stimmt nur bedingt. Denn für die Idee eines Tagesausflugs nach Nürnberg – angeregt von Bernhard Purin und Rachel Salamander – trommelten die B’nai-B’rith-Loge München und die Mitzwe Makers auf Anhieb fast zwei Dutzend Interessierte zusammen. Read more » »
