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Istanbul Airport gets a synagogue
Turkey's new international airport, the world's largest, will have two dedicated Jewish prayer rooms, initiated by Turkish Airlines
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@JCRCgw
Rescinds Honor to
@fcpsnews
School Board Member
@AbrarOmeish
| ...Tweeting a one-sided, inaccurate, and hateful statement that smeared
#Israel
, defamed
#Israelis
, and disenfranchised the thousands of Jewish families....
Thank you everybody who attended the Empty Table event today in Washington DC to DEMAND we Bring The Hostages Home Now. As we head into Shabbat please keep the
@IDF
and all of
#Israel
in your thoughts. 🇮🇱
#BringThemHomeNow
The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Washington today issued the following statement in response to an
#antisemitic
mailer targeting Delegate Dan Helmer (
@HelmerVA
) , a former U.S. Army officer who is Jewish:
The JCRC thanks the
@MontgomeryCoMD
for its strong statement condemning recent
#antisemitic
activities targeting our local Jewish community. We appreciate their leadership in the face of such pernicious hatred.
Andrew Weinstein pushes back against
#antisemitism
from inside the U.N.
A public delegate at the General Assembly, he helped craft today's high-profile forum on global antisemitism in Turtle Bay
In honor of
#JewishDisability
Awareness and Inclusion Month, join the JCRC's Associate Director, Guila Franklin Siegel for a conversation with world-renowned disability rights advocate Judy Heumann.
May his memory be a blessing Holocaust survivor who escaped Tree of Life synagogue massacre dies at 84
‘Judah Samet survived the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, served in IDF, and lived through 2018 attack on Pittsburgh synagogue
Thank you
@ZionessMovement
for welcoming me. I am so excited for what we build together. I am honored to devote myself to the fight against anti-semitism, anti-zionism, racism, misogyny and homophobia full time.
I am ready!
The JCRC of Greater Washington thanks the
@MoCoCouncilMD
for passing a non- binding resolution that affirms using the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA ) definition of
#antisemitism
as an educational tool…
Adidas chooses an American-Israeli Orthodox mom as the face of a new campaign
Beatie Deutsch appeared out of nowhere in 2016 to become a top female runner globally -- all while racing in modest attire; now a top sporting brand wants to showcase her faith
COMMUNITY CONVERSATION: ADDRESSING
#ANTISEMITISM
IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
7:30 - 8:30 PM
Virtual (*please register by clicking on the link below)
@MCPS
@ADL_WashDC
Biden says he doesn’t think
#Israel
overreacting in response to
#Gaza
rockets
President says 'question is how' to get Hamas to cease 'indiscriminate' attacks; Washington blocks Security Council meeting on issue, where Israel would...
#Israelunderattack
In DC, we understand that our strength is in our diversity, inclusivity, &
#DCValues
. Every day we stand united to love, and with anti-Semitic hate and violence on the rise, we join all those around the nation who are standing up to condemn anti-Semitism. Always stand up to hate.
The
@JCRCgw
‘s Executive Director
@rhalber
spoke to participants of the Nationwide Vigil for Atlanta Mass Murder Victims organized by United Chinese Americans. May their memories be a blessing.
#stopasianhate

.
@JCRCgw
is proud to welcome
#Israeli
Prime Minister
@naftalibennett
to Washington. The Jewish community of our nation’s capital is committed to strengthening the deep ties between our community and the Israeli people as we have done for seven decades. 🇺🇸 🇮🇱
Watch an interview with the Jewish students at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda who led a powerful response to a disturbing
#antisemitic
incident.
#WeRemember
Don’t Equivocate About Jew Hate -
“Just like there were not “good people on both sides” as Nazis marched in Charlottesville, there is not merely “violence on both sides” of this barbaric terrorist attack. This shouldn’t be hard.”
@Andrew_Friedson
Take a stand against
#antisemitism
wherever it occurs – at school, in the office, or anywhere in the community.
We’re proud to stand with
@StandUp2JewHate
#🟦
to stand in solidarity with the entire Jewish community.
Hatred has no place here.
The Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Washington condemns the lawlessness and violence taking place in our nation’s capital. Today, the JCRC issued the following statement.
We’re appalled & offended by
@HungCaoCongress
’ grotesquely comparing the murder of Jewish babies in the Holocaust to legal, life-saving medical procedures.
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German cities project images of destroyed synagogues to mark
#Kristallnacht
18 municipalities in Germany and Austria display pictures of the buildings at their former locations to mark
#antisemitic
pogrom’s 83rd anniversary
JCRC is leading the way locally in providing wide range of security-related supports &services to synagogues, schools,institutions.
Newly installed JCRC board member,
@CarlyPildis
is featured in this in-depth feature on
#antiSemitism
@CNN
Please join us tonight for -
#Israel
At War: Communal Moment of Prayer, Briefing and Call to Action /Deputy Head of Mission Eliav Benjamin,
@IsraelinUSA
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers from both houses of Congress introduced legislation on Wednesday to codify a working definition of
#antiSemitism
into the American education system.
@TimesofIsrael
Many Dead in Stampede at Israel Religious Celebration
A terrible disaster” declared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. By some estimates, about 100,000 people were crammed together near midnight to celebrate the feast of Lag b’Omer via
@NYTimes
#Meron
@JCRCGW
will meet this grim moment with renewed resolve. We will forcefully oppose efforts to limit abortion access in the DMV, and work to ensure that our region is prepared to provide medical care to thousands of additional women.
It was an honor to join my friends and partners at
@JCRCgw
for the annual Jewish Advocacy Day! We’ve done historic work together to combat hate and anti-Semitism, and to protect and expand the civil rights of ALL Virginians. Thanks to Rabbi Katz for the kind introduction!
Volunteers rescue
#Jewish
headstones used to pave street in western Ukraine
Road work in Lviv reveals up to 100 early-20th-century gravestones desecrated during Nazi and Soviet periods
TAKE ACTION NOW!
Urge Takoma Park’s Mayor and City Councilmembers and the Arts and Humanities Commissioners to Cancel the Film Screening of “Occupation of the American Mind”
In response to CAIR’s EEOC filing, Guila Franklin Siegel, the associate director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington said, “We feel strongly that the phrase “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Shall Be Free” is not merely a benign expression of
We purposely chose the word gathering… This is an event to speak to the Qataris, to ask them to maximize their leverage over
#Hamas
, and to use it to strongly pressure…
Thank you Delegate
@JoeVogel_
for sponsoring this important bill and pushing for its passage. We hope that the commission will confront hate crimes in all its ugly forms.
With Attorney General Anthony G. Brown
The interfaith service at
@adasisraeldc
for Tree of Life victims in Pittsburgh ended with more than 1000 arm in arm, with more than 100 clergy from across the DMV on the bema, singing in unison Olam Chesed Yibaneh, “God will build this world from love.”
@JCRCgw
@ABC7News
.
@SenatorCardin
(D-MD) reflected on Wednesday night on his career and his work supporting
#Israel
and combating
#antisemitism
in remarks to the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington.
@J_Insider
HISTORY IN THE MAKING!
Israel is about to become the 4th country to ever land on the moon, as
@TeamSpaceIL
's Beresheet spacecraft is set to complete its' journey and reach the moon next Thursday (April 11th).
#IsraelToTheMoon
🇮🇱🚀🌕
Deeply disturbed to learn that the Goyim Defense League reportedly distributed antisemitic flyers in Bowie. We condemn this act of antisemitism & encourage reporting to law enforcement & ADL. There's no place for hateful propaganda in our communities.