Amid rising antisemitism, people are turning to heartfelt stories to find light in the darkness
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Amid rising antisemitism, people are turning to heartfelt stories to find light in the darkness

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “The start to a new life.” Just six words made an impact on Lily Ebert in 1945, a year after she and her family were forced out of Hungary and sent to the notorious death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, where her mother, younger sister, brother…

Group applied to jobs using Jewish names, prior employers — what they found was troubling
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Group applied to jobs using Jewish names, prior employers — what they found was troubling

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Job applicants with Jewish names or Jewish-linked prior employers were less likely to get responses for administrative assistant gigs, a troubling new study by the Anti-Defamation League Wednesday claims. The ADL conducted a field experiment that sent out 3,000 applications for administrative assistant…

Illegal migrant charged in shooting Jewish man headed to Chicago synagogue found dead
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Illegal migrant charged in shooting Jewish man headed to Chicago synagogue found dead

The illegal migrant charged with shooting a Jewish man in a targeted attack in Chicago killed himself while in custody, according to police. Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, a 22-year-old from Mauritania, was found unresponsive in Cermak Health Services on Saturday afternoon in “an apparent suicide attempt by hanging,” according to the…

Hate crime killing of gay Jewish college student lands California man in prison for life
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Hate crime killing of gay Jewish college student lands California man in prison for life

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California man convicted of stabbing to death a gay University of Pennsylvania student in an act of hate was sentenced Friday to life without parole in prison. Samuel Woodward, 27, was sentenced in a Southern California courtroom at the end of an all-day hearing for…

Kanye West’s ex-staffer claims the rapper left business meeting to have ‘loud’ sex with Bianca Censori
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Kanye West’s ex-staffer claims the rapper left business meeting to have ‘loud’ sex with Bianca Censori

One of Kanye West’s former employees said working for him was a total “nightmare” and is now taking legal action against the disgraced rapper. In a new lawsuit obtained by Page Six Thursday, Murphy Aficionado claimed West subjected him to antisemitic tirades and once walked out of a business meeting…

Holocaust survivor calls Amsterdam attack ‘modern-day kristallnacht’
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Holocaust survivor calls Amsterdam attack ‘modern-day kristallnacht’

The vicious attack on Jews following a soccer match in Amsterdam left one New Yorker who fled the Dutch city as a child to escape the Holocaust “in shock.” “It’s like a modern-day Kristallnacht,” railed Lore Baer, an Amsterdam native who was born three months before the infamous “Night of…

Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi charged with hate crime after allegedly shooting Jewish man in Chicago
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Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi charged with hate crime after allegedly shooting Jewish man in Chicago

The illegal migrant who allegedly opened fire on a Jewish man walking to synagogue in Chicago last weekend was hit with new hate crime and terrorism charges on Thursday, according to authorities. Sidi Mohamed Abdallahi, 22, was slapped with the additional charges after he allegedly shot and wounded a 39-year-old…

MrBeast gets lawyers to help pull billboards hacked with vile antisemitic messages
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MrBeast gets lawyers to help pull billboards hacked with vile antisemitic messages

Hackers took over two billboards outside of Chicago to display vile, antisemitic messages including “death to Israel” — bizarrely trying to pin it on YouTube sensation MrBeast, who immediately got his lawyers involved. Commuters heading home through the Chicago suburb of Northbrook — which has a large Jewish population —…

Harvard president says fundraising down in wake of anti-Israel turmoil
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Harvard president says fundraising down in wake of anti-Israel turmoil

Harvard’s president is lamenting the university’s poor fundraising numbers as it continues to grapple with the fallout of a rocky year filled with campus turmoil and accusations of rampant antisemitism. University leader Alan Garber made the comments last week as Harvard prepares to release its 2024 financial report later this…