Tag: anti-semitism

The Trump administration announced its directive on refugees and immigrants on Friday, Jan. 27, which was International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

What can we do in the wake of racist/anti-immigrant/sexist/ableist/islamophobic/anti-Semetic comments, vandalism, and attacks?

Violent anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S. rose 50 percent last year. According to the Anti-Defamation League, there were a total of 56 against Jewish victims.

In various times and places, anti-Semites, rather than asking and trying to understand, have created horrible stories to explain what they don’t understand, blaming the Jews for all sorts of perceived offenses.

The Holocaust did not begin and end with the camps. Persecution existed long before and continued after.

Anti-Semitism still exists. That hatred didn’t end with the Second World War. Whenever non-Jews enter synagogues; whether it be for services, for a b’nei mitzvot, or for the Kosher Dinner, they often comment on the armed guards

People of all faiths swarmed into Temple Beth Shalom Friday night to show the Jewish community that they stand with them in staring down the evils of anti-semitism.