ADL Audit: 1,211 Anti-Semitic Incidents Across the Country in 2009

ADL Audit: 1,211 Anti-Semitic Incidents Across the Country in 2009

By CSI • on July 27, 2010

New York, NY, July 27, 2010 … The number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States remained at a "sustained and troubling" level in 2009, according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which compiles annually a statistical audit of anti-Semitic assaults, vandalism and harassment. The 2009 ADL Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, released

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Swastikas found on Israeli synagogue

Swastikas found on Israeli synagogue

By CSI • on April 19, 2010

TEL AVIV, Israel, April 18 (UPI) — Police in Tel Aviv say swastikas and images of Palestinian flags were spray-painted on the walls of a synagogue and a Jewish home Sunday morning. The vandalism occurred at the Ajami neighborhood of Jaffa near the Arab-Jewish Center and an elementary school attended

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Kyrgyzstan Jews in Danger; Anti-Semites Attack Chabad Synagogue

Kyrgyzstan Jews in Danger; Anti-Semites Attack Chabad Synagogue

By CSI • on April 14, 2010

The 2,000-member Jewish community of Kyrgyzstan suddenly lives in fear following an attack on its only synagogue after rebels last week apparently overthrew the government in a bloody uprising in which more than 80 people were killed. The Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Bishkek was firebombed, and the

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Mobile, Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Charges Related to Desecration of Synagogue

Mobile, Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Civil Rights Charges Related to Desecration of Synagogue

By CSI • on March 26, 2010

WASHINGTON—Christian Rodney Ice, 19, of Mobile, Ala., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Mobile to one count of violating the Church Arson Act by placing threatening graffiti and neo-Nazi markings on a synagogue in Mobile, the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the

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Synagogue Vandalism in Montreal Ruled as Hate Crime

Synagogue Vandalism in Montreal Ruled as Hate Crime

By CSI • on March 26, 2010

Vandals broke into Congregation Ahavath Israel d’Chasidei Viznitz in Montreal Friday night. Montreal police are treating the attack as a hate crime due to the graffiti of two swastikas on the bimah (pulpit). The synagogue is located in Outremont a Montreal neighbourhood that is known as the heart

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Jewish School in Sofia daubed with anti-Semitic graffiti

Jewish School in Sofia daubed with anti-Semitic graffiti

By CSI • on March 25, 2010

Anti-Semitic graffiti was daubed on the walls of Sofia’s Dimcho Debelyanov School, commonly known as the Jewish School, just a few days before the start of Passover. The incident, in which spray-paint was used to draw a Star of David equated with a Nazi swastika, was condemned by the school’s

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Synagogue vandalism a hate crime: police

Synagogue vandalism a hate crime: police

By CSI • on March 23, 2010

A forced entry into an Outremont synagogue by at least one vandal who etched swastikas inside with a black marker in all likelihood took place between 1:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. Saturday, Hersh Ber Hirsch, the synagogue's administrator, said yesterday. The act is being probed by Montreal police as an

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Swastika, other vandalism at temple not yet a ‘hate crime’

Swastika, other vandalism at temple not yet a ‘hate crime’

By CSI • on March 1, 2010

Vandals scratched a swastika, "KKK," "Hail Hitler" and the N-word on doors inside Temple Beth El in Boca Raton on Feb. 15. Was this a hate crime? The synagogue's leader is unsure, police are still trying to make that determination and the Anti-Defamation League believes there

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Rabbi David Yosef Attacked in Mexico

Rabbi David Yosef Attacked in Mexico

By CSI • on February 22, 2010

(IsraelNN.com) Israeli rabbi, Rabbi David Yosef, son of former Chief Sephardic Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, was attacked in Mexico City on Saturday night. The anti-Semitic attack occurred as the rabbi walked near the Shaarei Shalom synagogue in the city. The attackers approached the rabbi in a vehicle and began

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Police: Three teens admit to anti-Semitic graffiti at Boca Raton synagogue, charged with vandalism

Police: Three teens admit to anti-Semitic graffiti at Boca Raton synagogue, charged with vandalism

By CSI • on February 20, 2010

BOCA RATON — Boca Raton police on Friday announced the arrest of three juveniles who authorities said admitted vandalizing the Temple Beth El synagogue, where property was damaged and anti-Semitic and racist messages were carved into doors. The three suspects were juveniles — all about 15

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Boca Raton police: Synagogue vandalism a hate crime

Boca Raton police: Synagogue vandalism a hate crime

By CSI • on February 16, 2010

BOCA RATON – Boca Raton police on Tuesday were investigating the vandalism of a Boca Raton synagogue as a hate crime after burglars broke in, damaged property and left behind anti-Semitic and racist messages. Firefighters responding to a fire alarm around 10 p.m. Monday at Temple Beth El in the

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Jewish Agency: Anti-Semitism highest since World War II

Jewish Agency: Anti-Semitism highest since World War II

By CSI • on January 24, 2010

Anti-Semitism has reached a global peak since the end of Israel's Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip last winter, and levels of Jew-hatred have not been so high since the Second World War, according to the Jewish Agency's annual report on anti-Semitism issued on Sunday. The report was presented

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Swastikas Painted on Church, Synagogue in Oshkosh

Swastikas Painted on Church, Synagogue in Oshkosh

By CSI • on December 30, 2009

Black swastikas were found spray-painted on a Jewish temple and Methodist church in Oshkosh, and police say they're still looking for suspects. The damage was discovered Christmas Eve at B'Nai Israel Congregation and Algoma Methodist Church. Avi Stern is the president of the Jewish temple.

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Neo-Nazis protest at Riverside synagogue

Neo-Nazis protest at Riverside synagogue

By CSI • on December 20, 2009

Congregants at Temple Beth El who had gathered to celebrate the last night of Hanukkah were met by a group of neo-Nazi demonstrators who waved red-and-black swastika flags outside the Reform synagogue in Riverside on Friday evening. Rabbi Suzanne Singer said the demonstration was the third such protest

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Canadian PM’s Hometown Confronts Anti-Semitism

Canadian PM’s Hometown Confronts Anti-Semitism

By CSI • on December 1, 2009

As the city of Calgary, Alberta, confronts a plethora of anti-Semitic attacks against Jewish institutions in the mountainous metropolis, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a stinging rebuke of a phenomenon plaguing his hometown. “Anti-Semitism is a disease of the soul,” said Harper,

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