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John Galliano (credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

Jewish Students Furious Over New School’s Hiring Of Disgraced Designer Galliano

Some design students are protesting a world renowned fashion designer from teaching on their campus. They say the anti-Semitic comments made by John Galliano should ban him from the classroom.

2013/04/26

Assemblyman Dov Hikind Apologizes After Attending His Purim Party In Blackface

Veteran New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) apologized Monday afternoon to anyone who may have been offended by his decision to show up to a Purim party dressed as a basketball player, with blackface makeup and Afro wig.

2013/02/25

Controversy Swirls Over Free Pizza, Or Is It Free Religious Advice On Long Island?

Some students at Great Neck North High School have been coming to Congregation Torah Ohr up the block for a free lunch and learn program.

2013/02/13

Brooklyn College was to be the sight of a controversial lecture on Feb. 7, 2013. (Photo: CBS 2)

Brooklyn College Under Heavy Criticism For Hosting Anti-Israel Lecture

Israel is at the center of a campus controversy at Brooklyn College. A group calling for boycotts and sanctions against Israel has been invited to speak next month, and some think the college itself has gone too far.

2013/01/30

An ad paid for by the American Freedom Defense Initiative at a Metro-North station in Larchmont, NY on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012 (credit: Al Jones/1010 WINS)

Controversial ‘Islamorealism’ Ads Go Up In Metro-North Stations In Westchester

The American Freedom Defense Initiative paid for it. It associates Islam with 19,250 terrorist attacks carried out by extremists since the 9/11.

2012/08/17

State Sen. Diaz Stirs Up Controversy After Comparing Abortion To Holocaust

The Bronx Democrat compared abortion to the Holocaust, saying “Hitler was pro-choice. He chose to send the Jews to Auschwitz. That was not their choice, that was Hitler’s choice.”

2012/05/02

ADL regional director Gary Jones, homeowner Barbara Cadrenel, St. Sen. Martin Looney, and St. Sen. Bob Duff at ADL's office - Hamden, CT - Apr 10, 2012 (credit: Paul Murnane / WCBS 880)

Condo Association In Connecticut Reverses Ban On Religious Objects On Doors

The California Condominium Association of Stratford calls the dispute a misunderstanding, but condo owner Barbara Cadranel said Tuesday that the order to pull down the mezuzah in the first place has left her feeling violated.

2012/04/10

Rabbi Nosson Schuman (credit: rutherfordjewish.org)

Interfaith Service To Be Held In Wake Of Bergen County Synagogue Attacks

For Rabbi Nosson Schuman and his wife, it’s getting a little easier to sleep in their bedroom again. This is just days after someone firebombed their home and synagogue in Rutherford.

2012/01/13

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer (file / credit: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images)

Stringer Has Had Enough Of The Anti-Semitism

Swastikas have been scrolled in white grease paint on the windows of a Japanese bookstore and clothing store on 41st Street and 6th Avenue, where several rabbis and Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer gathered Tuesday to say ‘enough.’

2012/01/10

Stores Catering To Jewish Community Vandalized In Highland Park, N.J.

Richard M. Green, 52, of New Brunswick was charged with five counts of criminal mischief after police said he smashed window after window among nearly half a dozen Jewish stores along Raritan Avenue on Wednesday morning.

2011/11/30

‘Christmas Quality, Hanukkah Pricing’ Vodka Billboard Stirs Outrage

The Anti-Defamation League called the ad “crude and offensive,” and in a press release said it “reinforces anti-Semitic stereotypes.”

2011/11/22

'KKK' is scrawled on a car in Midwood on Nov. 11, 2011. (credit: CBS 2)

Brooklyn D.A. Hynes Appalled By Increase In Anti-Semitism; Markowitz Calls It ‘Anomaly’

People living in Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish communities are complaining of harassment and anti-Semitic slurs written on walls and even parking meters.

2011/11/14

Anti-Semitic Bullying Early Intervention Program Unveiled For N.J. College Students

An increase in complaints about anti-Semitism on college campuses across the country and right here in the Tri-State Area has inspired a new program to help potential victims,

2011/05/13

White Students’ Racist Rap Video Stuns Brooklyn Community

Blacks, women and Jews are all targeted in a disturbing rap video, made by four local teenagers. On Wednesday new action was taken to punish those responsible, and make sure it doesn’t happen again.

2011/03/09

Anti-Defamation League: Sheen’s Comments Anti-Semitic

Actor Charlie Sheen was at it again Friday, ratcheting up the rhetoric and rancor in the wake of the suspension of his popular CBS comedy. Some are now calling his words anti-Semitic.

2011/02/25

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