The expansion of Hasidic communities in New York’s Hudson Valley, the Catskills and northern New Jersey been accompanied by flare-ups of rhetoric aimed at new development that some say is cloaked anti-Semitism.
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Bringing federal hate crime charges over a machete attack that left five people wounded at a New York rabbi’s home, prosecutors on Monday highlighted anti-Semitic evidence in the suspect’s internet search history.
Read moreWhen a suspect walked into the home of a rabbi celebrating Hanukkah this weekend and stabbed five celebrants it was the latest in a week of anti-Semitic attacks in the nation’s most demographically diverse area — and an incident that reverberated across the country.
Read moreA knife-wielding man stormed into a rabbi’s home and stabbed five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City, an ambush the governor said Sunday was an act of domestic terrorism fueled by intolerance and a “cancer” of growing hatred in America.
Read moreA woman accused of slapping three people in one of a series of apparently anti-Semitic attacks reported throughout New York during Hanukkah was charged Saturday with attempted assault as a hate crime, court records show.
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The couple who burst into a kosher market in Jersey City with assault weapons appear to have acted alone even though they had expressed interest in a fringe religious group that often disparages whites and Jews, New Jersey officials said.
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The mayor of Jersey City said Wednesday that authorities believe gunmen targeted a kosher market during a furious shooting that killed six people and filled the streets with the sounds of heavy gunfire for hours just across the Hudson River from New York City.
Read moreA father sued Cherry Creek High School administrators in federal court for expelling his son for posting on Snapchat, off campus, a photo of him and friends wearing funny hats, with the caption, “Me and the boys bout to exterminate the Jews.”
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A Colorado man accused of plotting to bomb a synagogue pleaded not guilty Monday to three charges handed down by a federal grand jury.
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About one in four Europeans hold anti-Semitic beliefs, with such attitudes on the rise in eastern countries and mostly steady in the west, according to a survey released Thursday.
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A resignation and a defection are forcing Jeremy Corbyn to confront two scourges hounding his Labour Party as it tries to unseat UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson: anti-Semitism and Brexit.
Read moreIsrael’s supreme court on Tuesday upheld the government’s expulsion of a senior Human Rights Watch official over his alleged support of a boycott of the country.
Read more“Let’s get that place off that map,” federal prosecutors say suspected domestic terrorist Richard Holzer told undercover FBI agents he was planning to do to a local synagogue.
Read moreJacqueline Kent Cooke, daughter of the late Washington Redskins owner Jack Kent Cooke, claims The Daily Mail, The Morning Call and G/O Media dba Jezebel defamed her by claiming she “pled guilty to and/or was convicted of an anti-Semitic physical assault on a Jewish lawyer in New York City,” in New York County Supreme Court.
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At least 12 white supremacists have been arrested on allegations of plotting, threatening or carrying out anti-Semitic attacks in the United States since the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue nearly one year ago, a Jewish civil rights group reported Sunday.
Read moreThree people and an LLC claim in federal court that Shorewood Hills Homeowners Association, in Chikaming, Mich., refuses to let Jews live there — only “Christian neighbors,” according to its articles of incorporation.
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President Donald Trump’s abandonment of the United States’ Kurdish allies to a Turkish military onslaught is giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu second thoughts about the reliability of his friend in the White House.
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German Jewish leaders and politicians on Friday accused the far-right AfD party of whipping up hatred that made the deadly anti-Semitic attack in Halle possible, a charge rejected by the party.
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At least two people were shot dead in the German city of Halle on Wednesday in an anti-Semitic attack as Jews marked the holy day of Yom Kippur, with the gunman filming the assault and posting a video online.
Read moreTexas’ highest criminal court stayed the execution of a Jewish man Friday, remanding his case for vetting of his claims the trial judge called him anti-Semitic slurs.
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