anti-Semitism
White supremacist should die for 3 Kansas Jewish center murders, prosecutor argues
OLATHE, Kan. (Reuters) A prosecutor urged a jury to give a Missouri white supremacist he called a “remorseless killer” a death sentence for murdering three people he thought were Jewish outside two Jewish centers in Kansas last year.
White supremacist gives Nazi salute at conviction
It took the jury less than two hours to convict Frazier Glenn Miller, an avowed anti-Semite who testified that he intended to kill Jewish people. The three that Cross killed were Christians.
Obama bristles at anti-Semitism charges during interview with Jewish newspaper
(RNS) “There’s not a smidgen of evidence,” the president said.
No Jews and Zionists allowed!
Two American Jewish performers learn that Jew hatred extends to the concert stage.
Iran deal debate devolves into clash over Jewish stereotypes and survival
(RNS) The deal on the table is about Iran and nuclear weapons. But it is also about the Jews.
UK’s anti-Semitic incidents soar in first half of 2015 report
LONDON (Reuters) Across Europe, Jews have warned of a growing undercurrent of anti-Semitism, fueled by anger at Israeli policy in the Middle East and social tensions over immigration.
What the queen’s Nazi salute says about British high society in the 1930s (COMMENTARY)
(RNS) While the short film doesn’t make Elizabeth, who was just a child, an anti-Semite, it does remind us that in pre-World War II Britain, hatred of Jews and admiration of Nazism were rampant.
Gay marriage * Ramadan deaths * Abortion drone: June’s Religious Freedom Recap
America remains buried under three feet of glitter. More than 1,000 people have died during a Ramadan heatwave in Karachi. And an “abortion drone” was spotted dropping pills over conservative Poland. Read on.
Tony Blair’s new job: fighting religious and political extremism in Europe
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) As chairman of the European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation, Blair hopes in particular to spread its message to students across the continent during the next two years.
Can Jews cut President Obama some slack, already?
Some Jews like to dislike President Obama. They’re allowed. But, at least be fair to him.
Obama to Jews: Shared values compel support for Israel
(RNS) ”Jewish values,” Obama said, means caring as well about “a Palestinian child in Ramallah trapped without opportunity.”
Why do people hate Jews and Judaism? (COMMENTARY)
NEW YORK (RNS) Jews are hated not because they are bad but because they persist in reminding the world of what it means to be good.
What the Polish president could have said about his country’s Holocaust complicity (COMMENTARY)
(RNS) Who can deny that so many Poles were willing conspirators with the Nazis in the roundup of Jews and the wholesale destruction of European Jewish life?
Why Poles need to talk about the Holocaust
Polish anti-Semitism has a long history. Poland should deal with it.
Inside a dying German church, a new synagogue rises
COTTBUS, Germany (RNS) With the city’s backing and unanimous support among evangelical leaders, state officials offered to buy the church for the Jewish community and turn it into a synagogue — the first in the State of Brandenburg since 1938.
