The latest news from the New York Jewish Week.
Anti-Semitic acts in France rose by 74 percent last year. Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Monday night that the total of reported acts of anti-Semitism was 541 in 2018, up from 311 in 2017, according to local reports. The latest incident occurred on Monday, when a tree planted in the Paris suburb of Sainte-Genevieve-du-Bois in […]
WASHINGTON — Rep. Ilhan Omar apologized for saying that AIPAC buys politicians’ support of Israel after the Democratic leadership called for an apology. “Anti-Semitism is real and I am grateful for Jewish allies and colleagues who are educating me on the painful history of anti-Semitic tropes,” the freshman Minnesota Democrat said Monday in a statement […]
For her 10th birthday, Shachar Edry wrote a powerful book about learning to accept her own difficult birthmark.