Tagged anti-Semisitm

Jewish-American soldiers didn’t just fight Nazis in WWII — they endured anti-Semitism

Rabbi Chaplain Robert Marcus, far left, with Jewish soldiers in 1944. (Tamara Green and Roberta Marcus Leiner)
April 9, 2018 / Curt Schleier, JTA

(JTA) — “GI Jews: Jewish Americans in World War II” begins as many Holocaust documentaries do, with a history of the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany mixed with what is now standard archival footage of Brownshirts and Kristallnacht. Throw in interviews with some Jewish celebrities — in this… Read more »

OP-ED: The US, and the world, need our anti-Semitism monitor more than ever

The scene after a march in Paris in memory of Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old Holocaust survivor murdered in her home in what police believe was an anti-Semitic attack, March 28, 2018. (Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images)
April 4, 2018 / Nita Lowey and Chris Smith, JTA

(JTA) — This is a hypothetical memo from two members of the U.S. House of Representatives to the nominee for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo. To: Mike Pompeo From: Nita Lowey, Chris Smith Mr. Pompeo: Last week, many of our constituents, as well as Jewish families here and abroad, sat… Read more »

Austria just hosted Europe’s largest conference on anti-Semitism. It was challenging with a far-right party in the government

Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, right, of the Austrian People's Party and Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the Freedom Party give a news conference in Vienna after their first Cabinet meeting, Dec. 19, 2017. (Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images)
February 28, 2018 / Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA

VIENNA (JTA) — Until December, Milli Segal’s main challenge as a producer of Jewish-themed events in Austria was balancing her duties at work with her hands-on approach to being a Jewish grandmother of four. As an organizer of prestigious Holocaust commemoration projects, Segal, 63, is on a first-name basis… Read more »

OP-ED: Why Wayne LaPierre’s CPAC speech freaked out Jews and heartened anti-Semites

Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., Feb. 22, 2018. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
February 27, 2018 / Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA

(JTA) — I don’t know if Wayne LaPierre is anti-Semitic. In many ways, I don’t care if Wayne LaPierre is anti-Semitic. But the executive vice president of the NRA gave a speech this week that was heard as anti-Semitic by two kinds of people: left-leaning Jews and hard-right anti-Semites.… Read more »

The top 10 moments that mattered to Jews in 5777
September 13, 2017 / Josefin Dolsten, JTA

(JTA) — This Jewish year was not a quiet one, to say the least. From the tumultuous first eight months of Donald Trump’s presidency, to a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers, to a neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville that turned violent, to the twin weather catastrophes of… Read more »

ANALYSIS Trump, the Jews and the political weaponization of anti-Semitism

Stephen Bannon at a White House news conference, Feb. 16, 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)
February 24, 2017 / Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA

(JTA) — Was that so hard? At some point in the past week, it looked like President Donald Trump was never going to use “anti-Semitism” in a sentence. It took a fourth series of hoax bomb threats at JCCs around the country and imprecations from Jewish groups across the ideological… Read more »

Chloe Valdary: Christian, black and a rising star of pro-Israel campus activism
September 8, 2014 / Miriam Moster and Anthony Weiss, JTA
Chloe Valdary called her AIPAC-sponsored trip to Israel "life changing." (Lauren Clarice Cross)

(JTA) — Growing up in New Orleans, Chloe Valdary kept kosher, studied the Jewish Bible and celebrated Jewish holidays with festive meals. In recent years she has become an outspoken pro-Israel campus activist, contributing regularly to the Jewish press, and speaking and posting widely about the merits of the… Read more »