Thursday, after a despicable propaganda ceremony in Gaza, Hamas terrorists returned the bodies of Oded Lifshitz, kidnapped at 85 years old and murdered in captivity, and Ariel and Kfir Bibas, who were just four and nine months old when they too were kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023. In a cruel act, the fourth body promised to be that of Ariel and Kfir’s mom, Shiri Bibas, did not match her DNA or that of any known hostage. Shiri’s remains were finally returned on Friday. Forever burned in…
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We can’t be blind to the rise of antisemitism since Oct. 7, 2023 In his Feb. 13 op-ed, “Why criticizing Israel is not antisemitic,” Mark Golden distorts the difference between criticism of Israel’s policies — a time-honored tradition both here in the United States and in Israel — and “anti-Zionism.” Anti-Zionism — the elimination of the Jewish state and, by extension, the essential erasure of those who live there —…
A 34-year-old man who reportedly had a cache of guns and a Nazi flag in his home has been arrested after allegedly posting threats to rape Jewish women and inciting others to shoot people outside synagogues. Beverly man Matthew Scouras, who was busted following a tip from the feds, is accused of making “frightening and disturbing threats targeting the Jewish community.” The FBI National Threat Operations Center last week alerted Beverly Police about a resident posting several…
‘Jarring, unexpected, and unprofessional’ Local educators and the ADL are pushing for an apology from MassCUE after the group’s recent “jarring” conference when speakers reportedly spewed “hateful” anti-Israel and Holocaust rhetoric. MassCUE’s fall education tech conference — held in partnership with the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents at Gillette Stadium — apparently went off the rails during a…
A Young Man Escapes Nazi-Occupied Poland When Ben Zion Kalb (later “Colb”) escaped from Poland to Slovakia shortly after the German invasion of Poland (September 1, 1939), and then proceeded to rescue his fiancée and well more than 1,000 other Jews from death in the Holocaust, he surely would not have imagined that, 85 years later, his granddaughter, Sara Colb, would continue and honor his legacy via her own advocacy for the Jewish people. From Ben Zion to Sara,…
by Opinion Contributor Sara A. Colb is the deputy director of ADL New England. Last month, the Belfast City Council stepped well out of its local government lane to weigh in on matters of foreign policy, which it is ill equipped to do. The council voted, as reported by the Bangor Daily News, “to divest from companies that activists say have contributed to the disproportionate killing of tens of thousands of Gaza’s residents” and “prohibit future investments in such…