By Danny Bloom TAIPEI, Taiwan — Overseas, and in India in particular, the big movie gossip involving the 2012 Warner Bros. remake of The Great Gatsby has nothing to do with Leonardo DiCaprio or Tobey Maguire. Rather, it involves Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan and what will amount to the actor’s first-ever Hollywood film appearance [...]
By Daniel Vahab NEW YORK– For more than I year and half now, I have been writing a book on antisemitism. To further my research, I developed a survey on the subject. . The short, anonymous survey, open to all, explores how Jews and antisemitism are perceived, as well as the thin line between a [...]
NEW YORK (Press Release) — In response to concerns raised by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and others about offensive comments made by Glenn Beck regarding Reform Judaism during a February 22 radio broadcast, Beck has communicated directly with Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, to apologize to all those he may have offended. Foxman welcomed [...]
By Barry Rubin HERZLIYA, Israel — No serious thinker has done more harm to the Jewish people than Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings were an important inspiration for Adolph Hitler and Nazism. Yet far from being an antisemite, Nietzsche was one of the most pro-Jewish German writers of his time. How can this paradox be explained [...]
NEW YORK (Press Release)– Stereotypes about Jews and money – the notions that Jews are cheap and miserly, or that they horde money, or control the banks and levers of international finance – have endured through the centuries and thrive even today. The pernicious stereotype about an alleged connection of Jews to money is one [...]
NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday called on the government of Kyrgyzstan to bring to justice those responsible for attacking a synagogue in the capital city of Bishkek with a nail-filled pipe bomb on the eve of the Jewish New Year. In a letter to Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva, Abraham H. Foxman, ADL [...]
EDISON, N.J. (Press Release)–Rabbi Bernhard Rosenberg, pulpit rabbi at Congregation Beth El in Edison, got tired of counting swastikas and hearing antisemitic cat calls when he headed home from synagogue. And it didn’t help when hate crimes were dismissed as youthful pranks. Nor does it matter which ethnic or religious group is targeted. “The hate,” says the rabbi, [...]
NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Friday called on the President of the European Commission to condemn anti-Semitic statements made in a radio interview by the European Union’s trade minister. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following letter to Jose Manuel Barroso, who currently holds the presidency of the European Commission: “Dear [...]
By Robert G. Sugarman and Abraham H. Foxman NEW YORK — The start of the New Year offers a chance to reflect on the events of the past year and contemplate what lies ahead for the Jewish people, the State of Israel and the world. Anti-Semitism knows no borders and persistently rears its head [...]
By Fred Reiss, Ed.D. WINCHESTER, California — The Catholic Church has over 10,000 saints and “beati,” or blessed on the roster. Does it really make a difference if there is one more? The answer is probably not for most rank-and-file Catholics. They already have three saints per day from among whom they can choose for [...]
