The Anti-Defamation League or ADL is an advocacy organization that started in Chicago in 1913. Its main goal is to fight against antisemitism targeted at American Jews and discrimination against other persecuted peoples. It was originally named Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, but later ADL split from B’nai B’rith and established its headquarters in New …
Anti-Semitism is hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group. The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr, to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time. Although the term now has wide currency, it is a misnomer, since it implies a …
On September 22, 2019 a Synagogue in Racine, Wisconsin was attacked and sprayed with graffiti. On the Synagogue, a Nazi swastika was sprayed in a bold red color; A symbol of the Neo Nazi hate group. Along with the hate symbol, the word “jude” and other Nazi imagery was sprayed on the other side of …
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The twentieth century witnessed the emergence of American Jewry on the world Jewish scene. As the century opened, the United States, with about one million Jews, was the third largest Jewish population center in the world, following Russia and Austria-Hungary. About half of the country’s Jews lived in New York City alone, making it the …
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