A federal judge in San Diego entered a not guilty plea Tuesday on behalf of John T. Earnest, 19, who is accused of shooting and killing a woman and wounding several others at a synagogue in April and now faces federal hate crime, arson and other charges.
Read moreIsrael’s president said Sunday he is shocked by a German official’s comment that he wouldn’t advise Jews to wear skullcaps in parts of the country, which is drawing mixed reactions at home.
Read moreThe man suspected of killing a woman in a shooting at a Southern California synagogue pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday.
Read moreA county commission in Tennessee Monday unanimously resolved to support calls to censure a Memphis judge whose public Facebook posts disparaged immigrants, Muslims and linked to at least one article denying the Holocaust.
Read moreThe Justice Department filed 109 federal hate crime charges Thursday against a 19-year-old man accused of killing a 60-year-old woman and wounding a rabbi, a girl and others during a shooting at the Chabad of Poway Synagogue near San Diego.
Read moreMore than 100 people gathered Friday afternoon at a park in North San Diego to rally against recent hate crimes, including the deadly shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue last Saturday and an arson at an Escondido mosque in March, both crimes that were allegedly perpetrated by a 19-year-old nursing student.
Read moreThe man accused of killing a 60-year-old woman and wounding a rabbi, an 8-year-old girl and her uncle at a Passover celebration this past weekend pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder and arson Tuesday afternoon.
Read moreThe doors to the synagogue are a little less open. An audit released Tuesday found that while anti-Semitic incidents dropped slightly last year, the number of violent attacks doubled.
Read moreThe FBI said it got tips about a social media post threatening violence against Jews just minutes before a gunman killed a worshiper and wounded three others at a Southern California synagogue — an attack that makes him “part of the history of evil that has been perpetrated on Jewish people for centuries,” the suspect’s family said Monday.
Read moreEight-year-old Noya Dahan had finished praying and gone to play with other children at her Southern California synagogue when gunshots rang out. Her uncle grabbed her and the other children, leading them outside to safety as her leg bled from a shrapnel wound.
Read moreAmid a reignited culture war in modern politics, the Pew Research Center reported Monday that a majority of Americans now say Jews are discriminated against, but not to the extent of perceived bias against other minority groups.
Read moreAn Orthodox Jewish enclave of Brooklyn faces a mandatory vaccination order after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency Tuesday, responding to a measles outbreak that has sickened hundreds.
Read moreA North Carolina Jewish group and rabbi claim in a federal lawsuit that the Durham City Council’s adoption of a policy barring city police from training in Israel spreads anti-Semitism and deepens racial tensions.
Read moreI consider Benjamin Netanyahu a repulsive human being and I oppose the policies he has inflicted upon Israel and the Palestinians. Does that make me anti-Semitic? I don’t think so, as that would require me to hate myself and my family.
Read moreWhite House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Monday repeatedly refused to say whether President Donald Trump really thinks Democrats “hate” Jewish people.
Read moreHouse lawmakers on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a resolution denouncing anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other forms of bigotry after weeks of debate over comments made by Democratic Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar about Israel.
Read moreSpeaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday the House will vote on a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hate after an upheaval that split Democrats and clouded their agenda. But Pelosi said the measure won’t name Ilhan Omar, the freshman Democrat whose comments about Israel sparked the uproar.
Read moreVandals have scrawled anti-Semitic graffiti on a former synagogue in eastern France, the latest in a string of incidents that have caused nationwide concern.
Read moreEurope’s political atmosphere, already toxic with violent protests and a resurgence of nationalism, has an old and dangerous element to contend with again: anti-Semitism.
Read moreA new Democrat in Congress drew condemnation from fellow lawmakers Monday after her remarks criticizing support of Israel were seen by some as dog-whistle politics.
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