JCC bomb threats ‘unacceptable,’ White House tells NBC News
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House responded to a reporter’s query about the latest string of bomb threats called in to Jewish community centers by…
Anti-Semitism
B.C. Court Upholds Antisemitic Hate Speech Conviction
(Feb. 21, 2017) – The British Columbia Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Arthur Topham, who was convicted of promoting hatred against Jewish people…
Try not to cry during this Oscar-nominated film about a Holocaust survivor and his violin
By Curt Schleier (JTA) — Filmmaker Kahane Cooperman hasn’t written an Oscars acceptance speech yet, but she likely will before the Academy Awards ceremony on Feb….
ANALYSIS: Why Trump’s universalizing of the Holocaust matters to the Jews
By Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — Where’s Jared Kushner? Supporters of President Donald Trump have often defended his election campaign against charges of anti-Semitism by noting…
Campaign rhetoric and post-election hate crimes draw Jewish historians into the fray
By Ben Sales NEW YORK (JTA) – In the two months since the presidential election, American scholars and curators of Jewish history have sent a…