Dr. Neil Farber, congregant of Or Tzion Congregation in Scottdale, is putting his medical skills to use in Gaza. This week, Dr. Farber flew to Israel to volunteer as a medic at the Gaza Border. Senior Rabbi of Or Tzion, Rabbi Andy Green posted the following on Facebook: Arizona Jewish Life salutes Dr. Farber for…
Photo: News 360 TV COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) — A year ago, Jeff Cohen and three others survived a hostage standoff at their Reform Jewish synagogue in this Fort Worth suburb. Their trauma did not disappear, though, with the FBI’s killing of the pistol-wielding captor, 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram. Healing from the Jan. 15, 2022,…
Nine different law student groups at the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Law, have begun this new academic year by amending bylaws to ensure that they will never invite any speakers that support Israel or Zionism. If it wasn’t so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives…
The ADL was recently notified of Ethan Schmidt (pictured above, left), a right-wing extremist based in the Phoenix metropolitan area who posted a video describing himself as an authoritarian Christian nationalist. In the video, Schmidt was driving in an undisclosed area announcing that he and his partner are “hunting” LGBTQ+ supporters and people in the…
On May 4, ADL Education Director Kelsey Greenberg-Young and Associate Director of Law Enforcement and Security Initiatives Matt Brown met with the Mesa Police Department’s (MPD) Hate Crimes department, at their request. MPD’s strategy for their involvement with K-12 schools in the Mesa area focuses on bias, bullying, and hate-related education. MPD intends to utilize federal grant funding…
Echoing recent ADL study on antisemitism in US, investigators find worldwide increase in Jew-hatred over the past year By Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel A new Tel Aviv University study found a record-high number of reports of antisemitic activity throughout the world in 2021, much of it tied to the bloody conflict between Israel and…
The Phoenix Holocaust Association will hold its annual communitywide Yom HaShoah Commemoration to honor the memory of those who perished during the Holocaust and recognize those who survived. Local leaders will also be honored at the event The virtual event will be held on May 1, 2022 at 11 a.m. The theme of the…
StandWithUs commends the state of Arizona for overwhelmingly passing (by a 49-4 vote) important legislation to help confront antisemitic crimes and discrimination. By passing HB 2675 on April 19, 2022, Arizona now joins the ranks of Florida, Iowa, South Carolina, and Tennessee in codifying the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism and making sure it is taken into account by state authorities…
On April 13th, join Creative Community for Peace for ‘Stoking Hate: How Israel Is Covered In The Media’ with Matti Friedman. This is part of a series of conversations with thought leaders in the Jewish and Israeli world. Matti is a former Associated Press correspondent in Jerusalem, and his work as a reporter has taken him…
Israeli-American Council Dedicates Coast-to-Coast Walk-Run in Memory of One and a Half Million Child Victims of Holocaust From the “Rocky” steps at Philadelphia’s Museum of Art to the Holocaust Museum LA, people from coast to coast are running and walking this month to remember the Holocaust and spotlight rising antisemitism in the Israeli-American Council’s #6MillionSteps…
