Anti-Semitism

Members of the Global Imams Council during a meeting in 2017 in Baghdad, Iraq. (Courtesy of the Council)

Muslim clerical council adopts definition of anti-Semitism that includes vitriol on Israel

The Global Imams Council adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism, which includes demonization of Israel.

Thousands of New Yorkers of all backgrounds convened at the "No Hate. No Fear" solidarity march against anti-Semitism in January 2020. The march followed a year in which attacks against Jews spiked. (Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Almost all American Jews say anti-Semitism is a problem, according to a new poll. Half of Americans don’t know what it means.

While the vast majority of Jews believe anti-Semitism has gotten worse over the past five years, only 43% of Americans overall agree.

An anti-Semitic cake, a Holocaust survivor and a whole lot of Hebrew: All the Jewish moments in ‘Borat 2’

Borat has kept up with in-vogue expressions of anti-Semitism since his first trip to the US in 2006.

Global

For the first time ever, Stockholm has a Swedish-born rabbi

United States

San Diego rabbi assaulted outside his synagogue

Ideas

What is a ‘moser’? The ugly, complicated history of Judaism’s most dangerous accusation

A woman wearing a Ukrainian flag performs an ultranationalist gesture while marching at an event honoring collaborators with Nazi Germany in Kyiv, Ukraine on Oct. 14, 2020. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Global

Nationalist marchers in Kyiv say Ukraine is under ‘occupation’ by ‘Jewish clan’

Ideas

I thought anti-Semitism was a problem of the past. Then I became Jewish.

United States

Facebook will now ban Holocaust denial, in a major shift

Ideas

A year after the Halle attack, anti-Semitism continues to plague German Jews. But our community continues to thrive.

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