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Fast Forward NYPD reports 55 antisemitic incidents in May, highest in six months
The monthly total is more than double the tally for the same period last year, indicating the surge in antisemitism after Oct. 7 has not peaked
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Antisemitism Notebook What’s behind the wave of antisemitic violence in Canada?
"There’s something in the current rhetoric that makes people feel like Jews and Jewish institutions are fair game," said Rabbi Lisa Grushcow
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BINTEL BRIEF My friend is making antisemitic comments. What should I say? PS: I’m not Jewish
Bintel says call her out, draw your boundaries and walk away if necessary
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News In Blaze Bernstein murder trial, mother of accused testifies about his troubled childhood
Michele Woodward, whose son is accused of first-degree murder, proved an evasive witness
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Fast Forward Should Jews attend a rally against antisemitism hosted by people who try to convert them?
Chosen People Ministries says it is "proclaiming the Gospel message of salvation in Jesus the Messiah to Jewish people around the world"
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Fast Forward California woman sentenced for hundreds of phone threats to Tree of Life synagogue
Melanie Harris, 59, began menacing the synagogue within months of the attack
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News A Holocaust museum cut a survivor from its speaker’s list — for protesting the war in Gaza
Rene Lichtman says a Detroit-area Holocaust museum dropped him after he protested in front of its building
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Fast Forward Man charged with hate crimes after driving car at Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn
The incident in Canarsie came as antisemitism has spiked in New York City, and drew condemnation from Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Chabad rabbi killed in United Arab Emirates; Israel denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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