The horrific attack on a German synagogue in Halle on Yom Kippur was the second in less than a week – a lethal turn of events that has seemed inevitable as antisemitic crimes have risen in recent years.
As gay pride events take place around the world this month, battles over intersectionality and clashes of identities are unfolding as well, often excluding Jews who support the Jewish state, as most do. Three Jewish leaders share how Jewish activists can speak out on a range of social justice causes without forsaking their Jewish identity.
To even begin to solve the problem of antisemitism, there must be clarity about what it is and what it isn’t. That's why the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) built international consensus around a non-legally binding definition.
With the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre with now 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals reported dead and 134 still held hostage, there have been renewed attempts to rewrite history and assert that Jews are “foreign occupiers” with no ties to the land of Israel. Among the lies being spread is an effort to undermine Israel’s legitimacy by accusing it of being a settler-colonial state.