A Spokane, Wash. rabbi is facing online anti-Semitism after advertising a Holocaust memorial event on Facebook. “It’s not a good feeling to have hundreds of Jew haters verbally attack you,” said Rabbi Yisroel Hahn, who had created a Facebook page to advertise an upcoming speaking event of Holocaust survivor Marthe Cohn. Hahn told local TV…
(JTA) — A building housing community support services and non-profit groups in downtown Spokane, Washington was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. The epithets written in chalk on the side of the building were discovered on Friday morning. Among the anti-Semitic statements were: “Hitler did nothing wrong,” “Gas the Kikes,” and “Juden Raus,” German for Jews Out….
1) 46,000 Jews live in Washington. 2) Edward Salomon became Washington’s only Jewish governor in 1870. 3) Elected in 1875, Bailey Gatzert became the first (and so far only) Jewish mayor of Seattle. 4) Washington’s first synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, was founded in Spokane in 1892. 5) Seattle’s Orthodox population is centered around the neighborhood of…
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