blood libel

How to choose a great wine for Passover

By Jeffrey Salkin — April 19, 2024
(RNS) — Red wine, or white, for Passover? This year, why you might choose white wine.

The Jews stand accused: From deicide to genocide

By Jeffrey Salkin — January 16, 2024
(RNS) — The accusation is genocide. But its roots are ancient. And ugly.

We need to talk about antisemitism. A lot. With Rabbi Diane Fersko

By Jeffrey Salkin — October 19, 2023
It is the autoimmune disease of Western civilization. It is back — big time. Not like it ever went away.

Why Christians should audit their words, worship and practices for anti-Semitism

By Laura Everett and Dan Joslyn-Siemiatkoski — January 27, 2020
(RNS) — Christians can faithfully proclaim our faith as rooted in the witness of biblical Israel without using Jews and Judaism as foils for our own purposes. One place to start is by doing an audit for anti-Semitism.

The ‘Splainer: Was Charles Koch using the term ‘blood libel’ correctly?

By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 1, 2016
(RNS) Billionaire Charles Koch said rumors he would support Hillary Clinton for president amounted to “a blood libel,” but do they really? Let us 'Splain.

Palestinian leader retracts rabbis water poisoning allegation

By RNS staff — June 25, 2016
(Reuters) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas retracted his allegation that Israeli rabbis had called for the poisoning of Palestinian water

Palestinian leader’s accusation against rabbis likened to blood libel

By Lauren Markoe — June 24, 2016
(RNS) A call to poison wells? Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas makes a stunning claim that no one can substantiate.

The blood libel against Planned Parenthood

By Jeffrey Salkin — January 28, 2016
You know what happened with Planned Parenthood this week? Jews get it. Totally.

The ‘Splainer: blood libel and the synagogue massacre

By Lauren Markoe — November 19, 2014
(RNS) Hours after two Palestinians, armed with guns and hatchets, killed four Jewish worshippers and a Druze police officer at a Jerusalem synagogue Tuesday (Nov. 18), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the attack a "blood libel." Why, and what did he mean?
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