If you depend on the BBC for your news about who is and who is not an anti-Semite, you might have seen this article about an advertiser boycott against Elon Musk ( Read more... )

I didn't have time to throw together a cholent this week, but I did have a nice restful Shabbat. The upcoming week's Torah reading is Vayetze, beginning the second half of Genesis with Jacob's flight from his brother Esau and his marriages to Rachel and Leah. In Daf Yomi (I started keeping up a couple of weeks ago) we're in Bava Kamma, studying ( Read more... )

Well I don't know about you, but when I want to find out who's an anti-Semite, I always turn to the hallowed pages of the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/18/donald-trump-antisemitic-tropes-anti-defamation-league

The chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League led condemnation of Donald Trump after the former president used ( Read more... )

https://twitter.com/mrandyngo/status/1420529720274427908

... and get their asses handed to them.

Via Andy Ngo, via Instapundit.

This morning I paid a visit to the Chabad synagogue in Southwest Portland where I used to pray. I hadn't seen the shul since the fire. (There were actually two fires - the first probably accidental, the second almost certainly arson.) I'd heard at the time that it had been "damaged", which I assumed meant something short of "completely gutted", ( Read more... )

This is the synagogue where I used to pray when I lived in Southwest Portland a couple of years ago.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/08/sw-portland-jewish-center-damaged-in-2nd-fire-in-under-a-week.html

'The Chabad Center for Jewish Life appeared to be fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, said Lt. Rich Chatman, a Portland Fire ( Read more... )

Melanie Phillips on the Conservative victory ( Read more... )

London: Rabbi attacked by anti-Semites ( Read more... )

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269784Read more... )

An armed attacker entered a Chabad synagogue in Poway, near San Diego, California, on the Sabbath and last day of Passover, and killed 60-year-old Lori Gilbert-Kaye while injuring 3 more. The suspect is identified as 19-year-old John T. Earnest. Even after being shot and wounded, Rabbi Goldstein stood before his congregation and said “We are ( Read more... )