A Montreal synagogue was graffitied with a swastika on Shabbat, drawing condemnation from Canadian officials as well as a defiant response from the synagogue’s rabbi. A congregant at Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom, a Reform congregation in the city, noticed the 3-foot-wide symbol on the synagogue’s side on Saturday afternoon. At the time, according to the […]
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On June 15, 1942, days after receiving a diary for her 13th birthday, Anne Frank wrote that a classmate she had only recently met “is now my best friend.” She and that friend, Jacqueline van Maarsen, promised to write each other goodbye letters if they were forced apart — which came to pass just weeks […]
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This story contains spoilers for “Apple Cider Vinegar.” Early in the new Netflix miniseries “Apple Cider Vinegar,” the central character of Millie Blake is diagnosed with a rare cancer and told she must amputate her arm. Desperate for another solution, Millie seizes on an “alternative” treatment: at a center called the Hirsch Institute, in Mexico. […]
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In a speech in Munich, Vice President J.D. Vance scolded European leaders for boycotting populist parties, and said German politicians should abandon their policy of maintaining a “firewall” against the far-right. Vance’s speech to the Munich Security Conference on Friday was greeted with murmurs from the audience and backlash from German officials. It comes as […]
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Kanye West’s swastika shirt is no longer for sale, after the e-commerce platform Shopify said earlier this week, amid an outcry, that he had violated its terms of service. But a wide array of shirts responding to the musician’s antisemitic merchandise are now available — and being offered to Jews who want to wear a […]
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Dozens of Jewish celebrities and artists, as well as hundreds of rabbis, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times Thursday to object to ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The ad is a response to President Donald Trump’s calls to permanently relocate the entire population of Gaza, a proposal he has doubled down on […]
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Macklemore has come out with his latest song slamming Israel — and it links the war in Gaza with economic hardship in the United States. It also alleges nefarious control of banks and the media. Near the end of the music video, a frame juxtaposes a photo of a Palestinian child in the West Bank […]
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I was drawn to the video, too. Seeing celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld and Mike Bloomberg channel my rage and give a middle finger to Kanye West after his most recent antisemitic spree, which included selling a swastika shirt the video riffed on, gave me hope and made me feel less alone at a scary time. […]
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Vice President J.D. Vance will visit the site of the Dachau concentration camp on Thursday, the latest in a string of senior U.S. officials to travel to the former Nazi camp. Vance will visit Dachau before heading to the nearby Munich Security Conference, an elite national security gathering, multiple outlets reported on Tuesday. He wrote […]
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A video released on social media on Tuesday shows a wide array of Jewish celebrities, including Steven Spielberg and Woody Allen, wearing a T-shirt with a raised middle finger and the word “Kanye” — a rejection of the rapper Kanye West’s antisemitism. The video resembles any number of PSAs created by Jewish advocates, with one […]
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