Strong Whiff of Wartime Scandal Clings to Coco Chanel
When Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel died in her suite at the Ritz in Paris 50 years ago this week, the world mourned the greatest fashion designer of the century.
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German Extremist Convicted of Murder After Synagogue Attack
A German court on Monday convicted a right-wing extremist of murder and attempted murder and sentenced him to life in prison for his attack on a synagogue last year on Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day. He killed two people after he failed to gain entry to the building.
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Bavaria to Leave Medieval Anti-Jewish Sculptures on Churches
Authorities, churches and Jewish communities in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria have agreed that anti-Semitic statues and carvings dating back to the Middle Ages shouldn’t be removed from churches, an official said Tuesday.
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Jewish Group Condemns Auction of Hitler Speeches in Germany
A prominent European Jewish organization slammed a Munich auction house’s decision to sell several of Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s handwritten speech notes, saying Tuesday it “defies logic, decency and humanity” to put them on the market.
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Assaults, Arson, Slurs: Report Finds Anti-Semitism in Berlin
Small square brass plates set in the pavement remember Jewish residents of Berlin’s Lichtenberg district who were torn from their homes and killed by the Nazis decades ago. Nearby, the charred remains of a Jewish-run bar destroyed by arson last month attest to a hatred that still burns among far-right extremists.
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Georgia GOP Senator Pulls Ad Showing Democrat Rival With Enlarged Nose
Republican Sen. David Perdue of Georgia has taken down a digital campaign ad featuring a manipulated picture of his Democratic opponent Jon Ossoff, who is Jewish, with an enlarged nose.
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Anti-Semitic Incidents in US Hit Record High in 2019
American Jews were targets of more anti-Semitic incidents in 2019 than any other year over the past four decades, a surge marked by deadly attacks on a California synagogue, a Jewish grocery store in New Jersey and a rabbi’s New York home, the Anti-Defamation League reported Tuesday.
Read moreFirst Dictionary Editor Thought Term ‘Anti-Semite’ Would Have No Use
A short-lived term unlikely to have use in the future: that was how the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary viewed “anti-Semite,” recently uncovered archival documents show.
Read moreBad Coronavirus Optics Embroil New York Officials
First the mayor railed broadly against Jews for gathering en masse during the coronavirus pandemic. Then the governor unveiled a tapestry of cloth face masks stuck to a wall with what look like thumbtacks.
Read moreNazi Sympathies
A former adjunct professor sued Corning (N.Y.) Community College, claiming it fired her for asking it to remove from her class a student who wrote a patently offensive, anti-Semitic essay praising Hitler for murdering Jews; the corrected essay is attached to the complaint.
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German Appeals Court Rejects Bid to Remove Anti-Semitic Relic
A German appeals court on Tuesday rejected a Jewish man’s bid to force the removal of a 700-year-old anti-Semitic statue from a church where Martin Luther once preached.
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World Leaders Rally in Jerusalem Against Anti-Semitism
Dozens of world leaders descended on Jerusalem Thursday for the largest-ever gathering to commemorate the Holocaust and combat anti-Semitism — a politically charged event that has been clouded by rival national interpretations of the genocide.
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German Court May Reject Appeal to Remove Anti-Semitic Relic
A court in eastern Germany indicated Tuesday that it will likely reject a Jewish man’s bid to force the removal of an ugly remnant of centuries of anti-Semitism from a church where Martin Luther once preached.
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As Jewish Enclaves Spring Up, So Does Intolerance
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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Feds Document Search History of Hanukkah Stabbing Suspect
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 moreJewish Leaders Seek Action After Latest ‘Senseless’ Attack
When 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 more5 Stabbed at Hanukkah Celebration in Latest Attack on Jews
A 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 moreWoman Charged With Hate Crime Amid NYC Anti-Semitic Attacks
A 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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Jersey City Attack Being Investigated as Domestic Terrorism
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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Jersey City Mayor Says Gunmen Targeted Kosher Market
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.
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