Antisemitism

The Jewish Citizen: 14 Jewish Congressmembers Want House Ethics Committee to Release Gaetz Report

Nearly 100 Democratic members of the House of Representatives have urged the House Ethics Committee, which meets on Wednesday, to publicly release its report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, whom President-elect Trump has nominated for the job of U.S. Attorney General. Prior to Gaetz’s resignation from Congress last week, the committee had been investigating Gaetz for sex and drug offenses, among other allegations. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Jewish Biography: Bernard Lazare, An Early Defender of Alfred Dreyfus

At the beginning of his literary career he spoke in defense of French Jews against the attacks of antisemites. Socialist in his views, Lazare, fascinated by Jewish history, interpreted the social views of the prophets as an expression of the aspirations of working people (Social Ideals of the Jewish People, 1893). [Alex Gordon]

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The Jewish Citizen: Several National Jewish Groups Oppose Matt Gaetz as Attorney General

Leaders of the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs all came out against Gaetz becoming the leader of the Justice Department which among its other duties prosecutes hate crimes. [Donald H. Harrison]

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The Jewish Citizen: Landsman, Maybe Schrier, Seek Leadership Among Battleground House Democrats

Two Jewish members of Congress may be in a projected three-way race on Nov. 19 to serve as a leader among Democrats for House members in swing districts. The position is being vacated by Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Virginia), who plans to run in 2025 in Virginia’s gubernatorial race. [Donald H. Harrison]

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Jewish Biography: Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister

Disraeli was born into a middle-class London family in 1804, when the capital’s Jewish population numbered just over 20,000. He was the eldest son of a literary man who left the Jewish community a year before his son’s bar mitzvah, and was baptized according to his father’s will. [Alex Gordon]

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Mobs Attack Israelis, Other Jews in Amsterdam following Soccer Match

The global surge in antisemitic rhetoric and violence triggered by Hamas’ October 7th massacre reminds us that antisemitism remains a potent threat to the fabric of democratic societies. The incident in Amsterdam should be viewed as Europe’s new Kristallnacht – a stark warning of the dangers of unfettered hate. (Sacha Roytman-Dratwa)

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Jewish Biography: Leonid Pasternak, Father of Boris, Wrestled with his Jewishness

Leonid Pasternak, a painter and professor at the Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, a master of portraiture and book illustrations, went down in history in the shadow of his son Boris, a poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature, whom he loved and with whom he diverged in his attitude toward common ancestry. [Alex Gordon]

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What Hitler’s General in the Netherlands Was Really Like

De Vries has every reason to express dismay about a man who admires Hitler, a man who wishes his generals were more like Hitler’s generals. For it is one of those generals, totally loyal to the Führer and blindly following his orders, who was directly responsible for the deportation of 110,000 Dutch Jews — 75 percent of the entire Dutch Jewish population at the time — to Nazi concentration camps. Only approximately 5,000 returned home alive after the war. [Dorian de Wind, The Moderate Voice]

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Some Jews in Philadelphia are Boycotting Certain Restaurants over Politics

If the Jewish version of BDS takes flight, then fans of Vice President Kamala Harris must shun Hymie’s Deli in Bala Cynwyd forever. Not to mention the McDonald’s in Feasterville, Bucks County, where former President Donald J. Trump dropped in for a photo shoot. Meanwhile, in Philly’s Queen Village, Trumpsters must now evade the Famous 4th Street Deli. [Bruce S. Tickere]

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