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Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Kanye West
March 10, 2025, 5:31 pm
Adidas just sold off its final Yeezy shoe. Some of the proceeds are going to fight antisemitism
The German sportswear giant that broke ties with Ye over his antisemitism is donating 250 billion euros it made from liquidating the rapper’s sneaker line
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Israeli content creator Max Veifer and one of the nurses from Bankstown Hospital, Sarah Abu Lebdeh. (Screenshot)
February 26, 2025, 4:44 pm
Australian nurse charged over viral video threatening Israeli patients
Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, who worked at Bankstown Hospital, has already been fired and barred from practicing.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Antisemitic graffiti painted in a fenced-off area of Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle, Washington, on April 16, 2023. (Courtesy of Rabbi Daniel Weiner)
January 15, 2025, 11:04 am
Nearly half the globe has ‘elevated levels’ of antisemitic beliefs, ADL survey finds
About 46% of the global adult population is projected to harbor heightened levels of antisemitic views
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
The move by Twitch, an Amazon-owned platform with more than 240 million active users, comes after increased scrutiny.
November 20, 2024, 1:19 pm
Platform Twitch bans word ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for spreading hate toward Jews
The move comes following mounting complaints of antisemitism on the platform favored by video gamers
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
The oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandment is up for auction with Sotheby's. (Sotheby's)
November 20, 2024, 10:01 am
1,500-year-old inscription of the Ten Commandments up for auction
The Samaritan tablet will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s next month
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Israeli police evict Jewish settlers at the West Bank settlement of Netiv Avot
November 19, 2024, 9:14 am
Biden sanctions Israeli settler group, in move Trump could reverse
State Department cited Amana as “the largest organisation involved in settlement and illegal outpost development in the West Bank"
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Jewish Museum in San Francisco
November 18, 2024, 12:30 pm
San Francisco’s Jewish museum to close for at least one year
The museum has been running multimillion deficits for at least two years, according to the most recent financial disclosures available
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Claude Monet's pastel on paper, "Bord de Mer,” dated about 1865 and which was stolen from the Parlagi family in 1940 by the Nazis in Austria, is seen after its recovery by the FBI’s Art Crime Team. (FBI).
October 14, 2024, 11:47 am
Family recovers Monet pastel generations after Nazi looting
An unsuspecting New Orleans couple who bought the artwork in 2019 voluntarily relinquished it after learning of its history
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
View of the unauthorised outpost of Homesh in the West Bank
July 12, 2024, 12:46 pm
US sanctions extremist Israeli group Lehava and several West Bank outposts
The sanctions target the extremist organisation Lehava as well as leaders of a group that has blocked humanitarian aid convoys destined for Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the group's 2018 National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images via JTA).
June 19, 2024, 10:43 am
ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel and anti-semitism
Anti-Defamation League joins the National Inquirer, Newsmax, and Occupy Democrats as a source of propaganda or misinformation in the eyes of the online encyclopedia
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
The "Briolette of India" diamond necklace from the Heidi Horten collection sold for more than $7 million. (Fabrice Coffrini/Getty)
September 1, 2023, 10:22 am
Christie’s cancels second auction of jewellery linked to Nazi plunder
The jewellery belonged to the wife of a Nazi who made a fortune after buying Jewish businesses that were forcibly relinquished by their owners.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Anti-overhaul activists block a raod during a protest against the government's judicial overhaul, near the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on July 24, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90
August 5, 2023, 12:47 pm
Billionaire ends funding for think tank behind Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan
Arthur Dantchik, a major Wall Street executive, gifted millions in tax-exempt donations to the Jerusalem think tank that devised central aspects of the judicial reforms
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Polish-Canadian historian Jan Grabowski stands at the podium for a planned lectured as far-right lawmaker Grzegorz Braun of Poland’s Confederation party grabs the microphone and smashes it at the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, May 30, 2023. (Courtesy of Jan Grabowski)
June 2, 2023, 12:33 pm
Lecture on Holocaust in Poland abandoned after far-right lawmaker storms podium
Event was intended to address efforts by Polish leaders to suppress uncomfortable truths about the history of antisemitism in the country before and during the Holocaust. 
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
Mina Yuditskaya-Berliner, photographed in her Tel Aviv apartment in 2014, said her home was a gift from her former student, Vladimir Putin. (Ben Sales)
April 4, 2023, 8:24 am
Funds for Tel Aviv apartment given to Putin’s former teacher came from Abramovich, records reveal
Yuditskaya-Berliner died in 2017 at 96. In her will, she instructed that her apartment be given to the Russian government. 
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
A police vehicle sits outside of the Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, some 25 miles west of Dallas, Jan. 16, 2022. (Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images)
March 23, 2023, 1:42 pm
ADL reports massive increase in antisemitic incidents in 2022
The Anti-Defamation League counted 3,697 incidents of harassment, vandalism and assault targeting Jews last year.
By Asaf Elia-Shalev (JTA)
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