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NEW YORK (Press Release) — The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said Tuesday that anti-Semitism was “front and center” at the Nation of Islam’s annual meeting near Chicago, and that the organization and its longtime leader, Louis Farrakhan, continue to engage in a targeted campaign against Jews. Minister Farrakhan’s February 27 keynote address featured a range of conspiratorial

LOS ANGELES (Press Release)– “Israel Apartheid Week” (IAW) campaigners will be in for a surprise when they mount their seventh annual hate fest this spring. Pro-Israel students on campuses are ready for them. Over the past year, StandWithUs campus coordinators have worked closely with students to brainstorm about the responses that would be most effective

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Jewish Agency for Israel HAS announced the election of James S. Tisch, President and CEO of the Loews Corporation, as the next Chairman of its prestigious Board of Governors.  Tisch is slated to replace Richard Pearlstone, who has served as Board of Governors Chairman since 2007.  The Board of Governors is the

NEW YORK (Press Release)– A record 40,108 eligible Jewish young adults in North America applied to participate in a Taglit-Birthright Israel trip this summer. Registration for the trip, which closed Tuesday morning (Feb. 22) after only seven days, represents both the highest number of applicants from North America and the shortest registration period for summer trips.

CHICAGO (WJC)–Rahm Israel Emanuel, US President Barack Obama’s former chief of staff, has been elected as the first Jewish mayor of Chicago in the city’s history. Emanuel, 51, gained 55 percent of the vote in the first round, comfortably beating his five rival candidates. “I want to extend my congratulations to Rahm Emanuel on a

CHICAGO (WJC)–A federal appeals court in Chicago has upheld a deportation order against a Ukrainian-born man who was stripped of his citizenship for his role in a Nazi-operated Ukrainian police unit during World War II. The 7th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday upheld the 2007 deportation order against Osyp Firishchak, who immigrated to

NEW YORK (Press Release)–B’nai B’rith International is troubled by recommended cuts to South Carolina’s Holocaust education program.”Holocaust education teaches valuable lessons about the past that can be applied to the future,” B’nai B’rith International President Dennis W. Glick said. “It is necessary to educate our youth about the atrocities of the Holocaust to ensure such

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (WJC)–The Palestinian Authority has settled a lawsuit brought in  Rhode Island over the killing of an American couple in Israel by Hamas gunmen in 1996. However, the court papers do not reveal the terms of the settlement, and it is unclear how much, if any, money the Palestinian Authority offered to resolve

NEW YORK (Press Release)–The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Monday hailed the adoption of a strong and inclusive anti-bullying and cyberbullying resolution by the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates. The League provided expertise as the resolution and accompanying comprehensive report were crafted and discussed at the ABA’s mid-year meeting in Atlanta. “We are delighted

WASHINGTON, D.C (Press Release) – Michael P.S. Scanlon, 40, a business partner of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to 20 months in prison for his role in a wide-ranging public corruption and fraud conspiracy, announced the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and the FBI. Scanlon also was ordered