anti-Semitism
RNS reporters on the big stories they expect to cover in 2021
By RNS staff — January 1, 2021
(RNS) — How will America’s religious landscape recover from 2020 and who will lead faith issues in new directions in the new year?
The top Jewish stories of 2020
By A. James Rudin — December 30, 2020
(RNS) — As for all the world, COVID-19 dominated Jewish life in 2020, but not all the news in the Jewish world was about the virus — and even some events driven by the pandemic were not without a silver lining.
Does anyone ‘own’ the Holocaust? An Orlando controversy inflames the issue
By Mark I. Pinsky — December 21, 2020
ORLANDO (RNS) — A Holocaust memorial center in Florida sparks controversy for an exhibit on modern racism, with many saying it diminishes the reality of anti-Semitism and the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Yes, Roald Dahl was a Jew-hater
By Jeffrey Salkin — December 8, 2020
(RNS) — The family of the late British novelist and screenwriter has given the Jewish people an early Hanukkah gift: an apology.
Religious, ethnic minorities grapple over California’s model ethnic studies curriculum
By Alejandra Molina — December 4, 2020
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The curriculum, originally designed to center Chicanos and Latino Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Native Americans, has become beset with arguments about who else should be represented.
Vatican and US join to condemn rising anti-Semitism
By Claire Giangravé — November 20, 2020
(RNS) — The event coincided with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to the occupied West Bank in the company of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A cemetery is desecrated, shaking Michigan’s Jewish community on Election Day
By Yonat Shimron — November 3, 2020
(RNS) — Gayle Kirshenbaum planned to spend Election Day calling potential voters and urging them to vote. Instead she woke up to the news that the cemetery where her grandparents are buried was desecrated.
55 years ago, a cardinal’s ‘special reverence’ for the Jews redeemed ‘Nostra Aetate’
By A. James Rudin — October 28, 2020
(RNS) — The proclamation sparked a systematic effort by the Catholic Church to transform its past bitter relationships with Jews and Judaism.
‘Borat’ is dead serious
By Jeffrey Salkin — October 27, 2020
(RNS) — Forget, for a moment, about the banality of evil. There is also a banality of goodness, and Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie finds it, despite itself.
Against the darkness: Remembering Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life shooting
By Campbell Robertson — October 27, 2020
(RNS) — At a court hearing for the Tree of Life shooter, two members of one of the affected synagogues came ‘to witness,’ saying, ‘That’s part of Jewish theory, to witness and remember.’
Two years after Pittsburgh shooting, solemn anniversary marked online
By Yonat Shimron — October 27, 2020
(RNS) — Public commemorations of the 2018 shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue, which killed 11 Pittsburgh Jews, will be livestreamed.
ADL report: Jewish lawmakers face anti-Semitic tropes online
By Elana Schor — October 6, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) — Misinformation about billionaire liberal philanthropist George Soros remains common among anti-Semitic tweets directed at Jewish members of Congress, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League.
Trump’s Israel strategy makes few inroads with Jewish voters
By Elana Schor and Jack Jenkins — September 25, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP/RNS) — With battleground states like Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan collectively decided in 2016 by fewer than 200,000 votes, any loss of the Jewish support by Democratic nominee Joe Biden could be pivotal.
RNC speaker Mary Ann Mendoza removed from lineup after sharing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on Twitter
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 26, 2020
(RNS) — Mary Ann Mendoza, whose son was killed by a drunken driver who was in the United States without documents, had been expected to speak Tuesday (Aug. 25) at the convention, according to the Trump campaign.
America’s house will crumble if we don’t repair our racist divide
By Jeffrey Salkin — August 18, 2020
(RNS) — Why do Black Lives Matter? Because for all of American history, as an important new book catalogs, they simply didn't.
