ANTI-SEMITISM

The Looper’s Patrick Phillips Tells Us What’s “OK” to Hate

Let’s assume that Phillips wouldn’t say about Jerry Seinfeld that the director of his latest comedy special is excited to work with him “in spite of his being Jewish” or that Herbie Hancock’s new music is great “once you get past the fact that he’s a Buddhist.”

The Different Shades of White Supremacy

It can be comforting and comfortable to share the same private snickers and public derisions as one’s friends about everything from a person’s skin color to their religion.

Vox’s “Cult-Obsessed” Aja Romano Spews Hate-by-Association Bigotry

Romano joins the unholy pantheon of scribes who could care less about the real people she’s hurting, as long as she’s got a gobsmacking piece of clickbait for the masses.

What Anti-Semitism Has to Do With All of Us

The Institute for Jewish Policy Research compiled a recent report based on an EU survey of more than 2,700 Jewish Europeans between the ages of 16 and 34 living in 12 European Union member states.

The Tree of Life—Two Years Later

Genesis tells us there were two trees in Eden: the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life. Whereas Adam and Eve were punished for eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, the Tree of Life remained untouched, and, according to Scripture, guarded by angels with flaming swords to this day.

STAND Denounces Heinous Act of Anti-Semitic Bigotry in Central Germany

Friday, 12 months later, mourners arrived at the synagogue to mark the anniversary of the attack, only to discover that memorials for the victims had been defaced with swastikas.

Twenty Million More

We sat in front of the rabbi that day in 1977, my wife and I, a bit sheepishly explaining how we had run off and gotten married a year earlier after just a week of dating—and how she wasn’t Jewish at the time, and how she still wasn’t Jewish, and how now she needed to convert so that we could have a Jewish ceremony so that my observant Jewish mom and dad would speak to us.

Spate of Anti-Semitic Attacks Prompts Calls for Unified Action

While the world’s Jewish community came together to celebrate the Festival of Lights this week, three anti-Semitic attacks occurred in New York City in the span of 24 hours.

The Old Jew: A Story About Wisdom

I had not told the old man that I was expecting my first child, but somehow he knew. And I never forgot.

The Swastika in the Bathroom

You walk into the bathroom and a large, black graffitied swastika greets you. It’s big, it’s ugly and it exudes an almost living presence, defying you to respond in some way. You’re 11 years old, you have fifteen minutes to get back to class, you’re in a new school, you just started making friends, and you don’t want to rock the boat.

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