In Dusseldorf on Monday, unidentified assailants follow Rabbi Chaim Barkahn in the street and call him a "Jewish pig." In Berlin on Sunday, 20-year-old man says perpetrators tried to spit on him.
Image he posted showed a blue Star of David above a hand pushing down on a group of people accompanied by the quote: "To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." Cusack added, "Follow the money."
Berlin’s Jewish Museum says Peter Schäfer will step down to "prevent further damage" to the institution. Schäfer says he regrets the tweet, as the museum should not appear to take sides in political debates. Germany’s Central Council of Jews: resignation "an important step."
On Twitter, Foreign Ministry spokesman says, "Anne Frank's diary is NOT a warning about wishy washy pseudo universal values! Anne Frank's legacy is a warning against the hatred and persecution of JEWS."
Cadet Martha Gerdes goes faces disenrollment from program at the University of North Carolina. In one tweet, posted after the Pittsburgh shooting, Gerdes reportedly wrote she didn't care about "Jews getting shot up."
The amount given by Roman Abramovich constitutes the largest donation the Jewish Agency has ever received from one donor for the purpose of combating global anti-Semitism. Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog: Jewish communities across the globe are dealing with a record number of anti-Semitic attacks.
"He was a lot like Anne in that he was an optimist," says former pen pal of Otto Frank. "He always believed the world would be right in the end, and he based that hope on the young people."
Jozef Klotz, a Polish Jewish soccer player who scored the national team’s first ever goal in an international match, was later murdered by the Nazis. His nephew, Yoav Dekel, receives a jersey bearing Klotz’s name and number, signed by all the current members of the Polish national team.
Three youths beat and kicked Rabbi Shlomo Tawil, who has run the Chabad House in Rosario, Argentina for the past three decades.
Publicly funded institution tweets article reporting that 240 Jewish and Israeli researchers are opposing the German parliament's anti-BDS measure as a "must read." Israeli Ambassador Jeremy Issachoff: Tweet is "shameful."
