THE ORDEAL OF TWO school students in Victoria has stirred up feelings of outrage and solidarity with the students and their families. Among other things, we need a robust educational response that goes beyond telling children that “multiculturalism is good”. Read more » »

News World News: Breaking News From Around The World October 17, 2019 By Marcy Oster AXEL SCHMIDT/AFP via Gett… Protesters rally against anti-semitism on October 13, 2019 in Berlin, in a reaction to the Halle synagogue shooting. Read more » »

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The 10 Days of Repentance edition of The Jewish Week (Oct. 4) featured Stewart Ain’s story highlighting the views of critics and detractors of the Conservative movement from around the country. The High Holy Days envision a trial in which words of criticism ought to be accompanied by words of praise. Read more » »

News World News: Breaking News From Around The World October 16, 2019 By Aiden Pink skynesher/iStock A substitute teacher at an elementary school in a suburb of London told a class of 10- and 11-year-olds that they had “better finish off your work quick, or I’ll ship you all off to the gas chambers,” the Jewish Chronicle reported Wednesday. Read more » »

October 15, 2019 By Marcy Oster (JTA) — The doors of a synagogue in Grand Rapids, Michigan were plastered with posters described by police as anti-Semitic. Rabbi Michael Schadick of Temple Emanuel discovered the posters on Sunday morning, prior to the start of Sunday School at the synagogue. Local media did not report the contents of the posters. Read more » »

Reading With Roiphe October 14, 2019 By Marcy Oster Getty Chabad international “emissaries” walking through Crown Heights in 2017. (JTA) — A Jewish man was slapped in the face and called a “dirty Jew” in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The incident took place on Saturday afternoon. Read more » »

WORKERS RIGHT toppled Jewish headstones after a weekend vandalism attack on Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, in 2017. (photo credit: REUTERS/TOM GANNAM) Antisemitism is a blight on society, and it is enveloping America. Read more » »

News World News: Breaking News From Around The World October 14, 2019 By Aiden Pink A 77-year-old rabbi protesting in London on Monday was arrested and dragged away from the protest by police. Read more » »