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Elon Musk delivers a salute at a Trump immigration rally. Inset: Musk's Holocaust joke post. (Screenshot)
Musk makes Holocaust jokes after Netanyahu defends him as ‘great friend of Israel’
By Andrew Lapin (JTA)
The ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt blasted Musk’s Nazi jokes after remaining silent on his hand gesture
Elon Musk delivers a salute at a Trump immigration rally. Inset: Musk's Holocaust joke post. (Screenshot)
January 24, 2025, 12:58 pm
Musk makes Holocaust jokes after Netanyahu defends him as ‘great friend of Israel’
The ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt blasted Musk’s Nazi jokes after remaining silent on his hand gesture
By Andrew Lapin (JTA)
Harvard Yard (Wikipedia/Mancala)
January 23, 2025, 10:26 am
Harvard settles antisemitism lawsuits with promises to police anti-Zionist speech
The school has also pledged to partner with an Israeli university and with one of the Jewish groups that sued it
By Andrew Lapin
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan
January 13, 2025, 11:04 am
House votes to sanction International Criminal Court leaders over Israel charges
The bill freezes the property of, and denies U.S. visas to, anyone who helps the court in its effort 'to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute' a citizen of the United States or any ally who is not a signatory to the court
By Ben Sales (JTA)
ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, at podium, joining District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, at left, in filing a lawsuit against the groups that allegedly organized the insurrection at the Capitol, speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol, Dec. 14, 2021. (Ralph Alswang)
October 6, 2023, 2:15 pm
Anti-Defamation League to resume advertising on Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) after weeks of his attacks
The ADL says it still “has a serious issue with anti-semites and other extremists using these platforms to push their hateful ideas and, in some cases, bully Jewish and other users.”
By Ben Sales (JTA)
Jedidiah Murphy wears a skull cap that was a gift from one of his supporters, Rabbi Yehuda Eber, in the death row unit at Polunsky prison in Livingston, Texas, Oct. 26, 2019. (Yehuda Eber)
October 6, 2023, 2:12 pm
Advocates for Jew on death row say hopes are dimming
Jedidiah Murphy killed 79-year-old Bertie Lee Cunningham during a carjacking in 2000 in Dallas County, Texas. He is due to die by lethal injection on Tuesday.
By Ron Kampeas (JTA)
Sebastião Feio, president of the Porto municipal general assembly, speaks at a ceremony dedicating the Portuguese city's memorial to the local victims of the Inquisition, Sept. 3, 2023. (Courtesy CIP-CJP)
September 11, 2023, 12:26 pm
Porto’s Jewish community unveils memorial to 842 local victims of Portuguese Inquisition
Victims killed or expelled from 1536 to 1821 were aged between 10 and 110 years old
By Shira Li Bartov (JTA)
Covid-19 vaccine administered through an injection
May 19, 2023, 12:23 pm
Anti-vaccine protest planned at Charedi health event
A flier has surfaced over the past week calling the event, aimed at tackling infectious diseases such as polio, a “terrible Chilul Hashem,” or desecration of God’s name.
By Jacob Henry (New York Jewish Week/JTA)
Police perform a raid on suspected members of the Reichsbürger far-right group in Saaldorf, Germany, Dec. 7, 2022. (Bodo Schackow/picture alliance via Getty Images)
December 9, 2022, 11:23 am
Germany approves first government plan to combat antisemitism
Jewish leaders welcome official moves to fight antisemitism amid fears of local extremism.
By Toby Axelrod (JTA)
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