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Why Jews Should Be Fearful Of Today's Anti-Refugee Bias

Anti-refugee bias is strong in the US and Israel. But history shows this type of anti-refugee fear-mongering has very negative consequences – consequences you didn't learn from your rosh yeshiva or Rush Limbaugh.

Jews, Usury, And The Birth Of Modern Finance

"…Anxious to catch the Italians and lured by interest rates as high as 43 percent, German cities cleared the field of incumbents. Augsburg expelled its Jews in 1438 and used the gravestones from the Jewish cemetery to build a new city hall. A textile trader named Hans Meuthing became the first Augsburger to try finance on a major scale. He made a large loan to Archduke Sigmund of Tyrol, which was backed…by the output of the Schwaz silver mine. Others jumped in, replacing Jewish lenders on transactions, large and small. The German satirist Sebastian Brant noted the development in his best-selling Ship of Fools (1494): 'You borrow ten, eleven's due. They're more usurious than the Jew. Their business now the Jews may lose, for it is done by Christian Jews.'…"

Site Of Greatest Paris Carnage Is Theater Once Owned By Jewish Family

The Bataclan Theater, the site of one of the several coordinated terror attacks Friday in Paris, was owned by a Jewish family until two months ago and had previously been threatened by Islamic terrorists.

Chabad Hasid Stabbed In Possible Crown Heights Hate Crime Or Terror Attack

A Chabad hasid was stabbed in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn tonight as he and another man, both Hatzolah ambulance volunteers, were walking on Eastern Parkway between Nostrand and Rogers Avenues.

Idaho Trucker Kicked Out Of Seminary For Self-Circumcision

Kevin G. Sloniker is in a whole lot of trouble, and his try at self-circumcision is only a tiny part of it (pun likely intended).

Another Haredi Man Dies From Wounds Suffered In Shul Terror Attack

Another victim of the November 2014 terror attack on a Jerusalem haredi synagogue has passed away from his wounds.

Israel's Prime Minister Says Holocaust Was All The Idea Of Palestinian Leader

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu falsely claimed this week that all Hitler wanted to do is expel the Jews from Europe. But the Mufti of Jerusalem convinced him to murder them all.

Palestinian Terror Attack In Beersheba Wounds 6

2 Palestinian terrorists opened fire in a bus station in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba today, wounding 6 – 2 of them seriously.

Poll Asked Americans: Would You Have Hidden Jews During The Holocaust?

1,000 Americans were asked the following question: "Think back to World War II when Jews in Europe were forced into concentration camps and many were killed by the Nazis. If you were living in this time period, would you have risked the possible imprisonment and death of yourself and your family to hide Jews?" But what's surprising about the results isn't the answers – it's how a haredi news website reported them.

Ukrainian Nationalists Attack, Destroy Unlicensed Breslov Tent Camp In Uman As Police Stand By And Do Nothing To Stop Them

"On Shabbat, when they knew we wouldn’t be able to respond or activate the communication device, they simply knocked down the fence, pushed the light poles and security cameras and caused damage estimated at half a million dollars. We are approaching the High Holidays, and this disrupts all our work arrangements.”

Top Haredi Rabbis Ban New Generation ‘Almost Kosher’ Smartphones

The top Bnei Brak rabbis of the non-hasidic Ashkenazi haredi Degel HaTorah faction of the haredi United Torah Judaism Party (UTJ) have lashed out against new “non-kosher” smartphones that are advertised as being compatible with “kosher” SIM cards.

Matisyahu Will Perform At Festival That Banned Him

Matisyahu's appearance at the Rototom SunSplash festival was cancelled early this week after the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement (BDS) threatened to disrupt the festival if Matisyahu – who is not Israeli – was allowed to perform without first issuing a declaration in support of a Palestinian state.

Music Festival Removes Apparently Anti-Semitic Matisyahu Ban, Re-Invites Jewish Reggae Singer

A publicly funded Spanish music festival that banned Matisyahu after he refused to comply with a demand from the festival to issue a public statement in support of a Palestinian state has recanted and re-invited the Jewish reggae singer to perform.

Matisyahu Makes Public Statement On Music Festival BDS-Forced Ban

"The festival organizers contacted me because they were getting pressure from the BDS movement. They wanted me to write a letter, or make a video, stating my positions on Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to pacify the BDS people..…it was appalling and offensive, that as the one publicly Jewish-American artist scheduled for the festival they were trying to coerce me into political statements. Were any of the other artists scheduled to perform asked to make political statements in order to perform?…"

Google Puts Auschwitz And Other Nazi Death Camps In Mobile Phone Game, Drawing Condemnation

Google put Nazi death camps and concentration camps in Ingress, a multiplayer augmented reality game in which people fight for control of virtual portals in a larger battle for control of the entire Earth.

Man With Knife Threatens To Kill Jews At Hasidic Kollel In LA

A man entered Kollel Yechiel Yehuda in Los Angeles at about 7:30 am this morning during the morning prayers, pulled out a knife and brandished it while screaming he would kill the Jews.

Kiryas Joel Dissidents Lash Out At Village Leadership Over Allegedly False Claims Of Anti-Semitism

In an ad published in the Times Herald-Record, dissidents in the Satmar hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel, New York lash out at village leaders claims that annexation opponents are driven by anti-Semitism.

Secular Schools Responsible For Synagogue Vandalism, Haredi Politician Claims

"The whole country is alive and kicking with global displays of anti-Semitism. But the question is, how do we require nations of the world to eradicate anti-Semitism...when at home, here in the Jewish state, intolerable things happen like prying off mezuzahs and the desecration of synagogues?"

ADL Complains About Campaign Ad Highlighting Widespread Haredi Fire, Safety And Housing Code Violations In Rockland County

“We find the use of an image of visibly identifiable Jews in this campaign video to be deeply troubling, highly offensive, and inappropriate, as it essentially blames the Orthodox Jewish community for the substandard and illegal housing problems in Rockland. Voters should be encouraged to make decisions about candidates based upon their qualifications, political positions and not on the basis of race or religion without offensive insertions ascribing blame on an issue to a particular religious group.…"

Young Moldovan Jewish Businessman Under Arrest In Alleged $1 Billion Looting Of Poor Country’s Banks

“There is a lot of antisemitism here, especially on the Internet…[and] the community is concerned. The masses have identified him as a Jew, and people here are outraged over the fraud, connecting him to the [Jewish] community. We remember our history and the Kishinev pogrom,” Lecarteva said, referring to the notorious massacre of 47 (some say 49) Jews on April 19-20, 1903 – Easter Sunday and the following day on the Eastern Orthodox calendar. In all, 92 other Jews were severely wounded, 500 were less severely injured, 700 houses were destroyed, and 600 stores were looted and pillaged.

Satmar Aaron Faction Equates NY State Lawmaker With Hitler, Satmar PR Flack Yossi Gestetner Agrees

"Pharaoh, Haman, Hitler, etc. Didn't succeed in curbing growth of Jews so will Assemblyman @KarlBrabenec not succeed…"

Modern Orthodox Developer's Outlandish Lawsuits Causing Local Town Officials To Quit Government

“[Town boards members] are quitting on us in droves. We have pretty much lost half of our boards over the last year — the planning board, town board, zoning board and ethics board — and we are having trouble filling those seats because of the constant threat of personal lawsuits."

Video: A Holocaust Survivor Returns To Poland With Filmmaker Menachem Daum

“Hatred doesn’t always have to be passed on from generation to generation,” says New York filmmaker Menachem Daum. “Perhaps no one is more qualified to set such an example than Poles and Jews.”

Rockland County Executive Encourages Anti-Semitism, Haredi Rabbi Says

A haredi group headed by a purported anti-abuse activist is accusing Rockland County Executive Ed Day of “encourag[ing] anti-Semitism.

Video: Yossi Gestetner Interviewed About Grotesque Video Smearing Opponents Of Haredi Community In Rockland County

Satmar hasidic PR hack Yossi Gestetner's Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council (OJPAC) has released a disgusting video that smears opponents of the haredi community as anti-Semites and potential terrorists without ever once mentioning the very real misbehavior of many haredim. It pulls from a tiny minority of opponents who are (or can be construed as) anti-Semitic and smears the vast majority of opponents with that very broad brush. The video is narrated by the hasidic Majority Leader of the Rockland County Legislature Aaron Wieder. Richard French interviews Gestetner and his henchman Benny Polatseck about the smear, and Gestetner doubles down repeatedly on it.

Video: Should The Jews Leave Europe?

Jeffrey Goldberg and Leon Wieseltier talk about a question many European Jews are taking seriously in the wake of recent terror attacks and a large spike in anti-Semitism: Is it time for all Jews to flee Europe?

Terror Attack Foiled By Wedding Gift, Jerusalem Mayor

Jerusalem has a new Caped Crusader, and it isn’t Batman – its secular Mayor Nir Barkat.

Conversion With A Boot Pressed Into Her Throat

Marguerite Haragan, 58, pressed her foot into the throat of a Jewish woman while saying she “better accept Jesus,” an Ada County prosecutor said during Haragan's arraignment Thursday.

Intifooda: Kosher Food-Cart Vendor Says He‘s Blocked By ‘Halal Mafia’ In NYC

“Why doesn’t he go to 47th Street?” Mossad shouted, referring to the Hasidim-heavy Diamond District. “He’s just coming to this particular spot, and he wants to grab it from me — and kill me, actually. Kill my business.”

Top European Rabbi Equates Copenhagen Terror Attack With 'Anti-Shechita' Demand For Humane Slaughter

"…The Jewish community in Denmark is a microcosm of what is happening to Jewish communities across the continent. On the one hand they are under attack from extremist Muslims who see every Jew as a legitimate target, on the other hand, freedom of religion is curtailed by the government, religious slaughter has been forbidden and the parliament is in discussions about the future of religious circumcision.…"

Apparent Islamist Fundamentalist Terror Attack At Danish Synagogue

Three people were shot in an attack at a synagogue in Copenhagen, Denmark, only hours after another terror attack targeting a Danish cartoonist who drew caricatures of Mohammed.

Why Does New Film On Seminal Civil Rights March Cut Out Jews?

There has been much discussion in the media over the past week since the Oscar nominations were made public about Hollywood's alleged racism. Most of it focused on the fact that that the film Selma, about the historic 1965 civil rights march led by Reverend Martin Luther King, Junior – whose birthday we celebrate today as a national holiday – was nominated but its African-America director, Ava DuVernay, was not. But the biggest slight was done to history and truth by DuVernay, who smears President Lyndon Johnson in the film and completely removes King's Jewish allies.

Should French Jews leave France?

"…French Jews often talk about aliyah as a potential necessity, but never as something easy.…How could you not leave, when your child might not make it back from school, on a continent that knows the dangers of obscurantism all too well? At the same time, how could you leave, when these are the streets where you learned to walk, this is the language in which you say “I love you,” this is the first image your brain shows you when someone talks about home? On a very basic human level, when conditions threaten to pull you out of your home by the collar, how could you not hold on to the doorknob?"

Video: French Jewish Community ‘Shocked But Not Surprised’ By Attacks On Kosher Market

Even before last week's attack in Paris, attacks on the Jewish community in France have been on the rise, prompting several thousand Jews to flee the country.

Paris Unity March Draws At Least 3.7 Million, Official Says

The hastily-planned unity march held in response to Wednesday's terror attack on the Paris-based Charlie Hebdo magazine and Friday's terror attack on the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris drew at least 3.7 million people – the rough equivalent of a 19-million person march in the US – from the leaders of France, Israel, Great Britain, the PA, the Kingdom of Jordan and Germany to Parisians of all backgrounds, including top Muslim, Catholic, Christian and Jewish leaders.

Muslim Employee Likely Saved 15 Hostages’ Lives In Paris Kosher Supermarket Terror Attack

Lassana Bathily, a 24-year-old Muslim employee of the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris, likely saved the lives of as many as 15 customers during Friday’s terror attack.

Video: Rockland County Haredi Pol Gets Mock ISIS Death Threat

Aron Wieder has received a photo mockup of himself being beheaded by an ISIS terrorist.

History: On The US Supreme Court

Louis Brandeis was the first Jewish justice on the US Supreme Court, nominated by US President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and serving until 1939. Here is what happened when Brandies' nomination was confirmed by the US Senate and he became an official justice of the Supreme Court.

As Victim Undergoes Emergency Surgery, Hikind Calls Stabbing By Mentally Ill Man "Reminiscent Of Har Nof" Terror Attack

In what some say is a despicable incident of demagoguery, New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind called last night's stabbing in Chabad's main Brooklyn synagogue "reminiscent of [the] Har Nof" terror attack in which two Palestinian terrorists murdered four Jews inside a Jerusalem haredi synagogue and a Druze policeman outside it who tried to rescue victims.

Video: Witness Says Cop Was Sleeping When Stabbing Took Place, Slow To Respond

A witness to the stabbing attack last night in Chabad's main synagogue in its international headquarters in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York says cops stationed outside the synagogue, located at 770 Eastern Parkway, were sleeping when the attack took place and were slow to respond to calls for help. The assailant allegedly said "Death to Jews" as he stabbed 20-year-old Levi Rosenblatt, an Israeli yeshiva student who is now hospitalized in stable condition. The assailant who has a long history of mental health issues, was shot by police and is dead.

Video: Yeshiva Student Stabbed In Chabad’s Main Brooklyn Synagogue

At approximately 1:45 am EST, a person described as a black male reportedly entered the synagogue at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood and stabbed the student, who was reportedly standing near the bima (prayer lectern) praying at the time of the attack.

Tel Aviv Orthodox Synagogue Hit With Apparent Hate Crime

A Tel Aviv synagogue headed by a liberal Zionist Orthodox rabbi was hit with what appears to be an anti-Orthodox hate crime directly linked to the proposed Jewish State Bill that many legal experts, including Israel’s own attorney general, believe to be undemocratic and dangerous.

Haredi Synagogue Hit By Terror Attack Had Cellphone-Blocking Device, Slowing Down Police Response

A reason it took police so long to respond to the attack – 11 minutes, by some accounts – and likely a reason the death toll was as high as it was is because haredi rabbis had installed a device in the synagogue to block cellphone transmissions. And the synagogue did not have an easily accessible public phone.

 

Israel Further Unravels Into Violence

From a violent acid attack on the car of a Israeli Muslim interfaith peace activist to attacks on police and Arab workers and attacks on Jews, Israel shows more signs of unravelling into a spiral of racist violence.

Swedish Orthodox Rabbi Receives Death Threat

"What a wonderful day! Four of your satanic murderers were taken from the world, how wonderful! But what a pity that you weren't among them. But soon will come the time when the Gothenburg synagogue will be destroyed to the ground with you inside, and then you too, you pig, will be killed in the eternal fire."

Two Yeshiva Students Attacked On Mount Of Olives

The two men were reportedly stoned and beaten with metal rods and rods spiked with nails near the Zionist Orthodox Beit Orot Yeshiva in the new Beit Orot Jewish neighborhood on the largely Arab Mount of Olives.

Shin Bet Head Contradicts Prime Minister, Says Abbas, PA Don’t Want Terror, 3rd Intifada, Says MKs Should Stay Off Temple Mount

“The religious dimension of the conflict is very dangerous and explosive, because it has implications for the Palestinians and for Muslims everywhere in the world. We have to do everything possible to instill calm.”

Israeli Rabbi Attcked By Teens On Subway Platform In NYC For Cancer Treatment

An Israeli rabbi in NYC for cancer treatment was physically attacked by a group of teens who shouting anti-Semitic epithets on the Marcy Avenue train platform in Brooklyn.

Terror Victim Rabbi Yehuda Glick Put Back In Medically-Induced Coma

Rabbi Yehuda Glick, an American-born Zionist Orthodox rabbi who is a leading activist for Jewish control of the Temple Mount, was shot four time in a terror attack in Jerusalem in front of the Menachem Begin Center two weeks ago.

How A 4-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Finally Found His Family, But Is Still Searching For His Twin Brother

Auschwitz prisoner No. A7733 has finally found family. Elias Gottesman (now Menachem Bodner), a survivor of the Mengele twin experiments, was only three years old when he, his twin brother Jeno (Yoilly) and his family were taken to Auschwitz. Last month, through the work of a very persistent volunteer genealogist, he found first cousins he didn’t know existed. From them he got a photograph of his parents whom he could no longer picture in his mind and other family photos. His entire family was lost in the death camps except his mother, who was killed in a pogrom in 1948, years after he had last seen her. Menachem is still searching for his twin brother, who he believes also survived Auschwitz.