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Diaspora


Diaspora Jewry is the collective name for the Jewish communities outside of the Land of Israel. Historically, these communities go back to big historical events like the Babylonian exile, the siege of Jerusalem and the expulsion from Spain. Today, the biggest Diaspora communities exist in the United States, France, Canada, the UK and Russia.

The US Capitol building.

More than 55 Jewish groups come out against terrorism bill that could threaten nonprofits

 New York Mayor Eric Adams with incoming NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch. November 20, 2024.

Jessica Tisch, Jewish public servant, appointed as commissioner of NYPD

By Luke Tress/JTA
 A banner showing a university graduate in a keffiyeh in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. November 19, 2024.

Jews struggle with how to react to seeing keffiyehs in public

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
 A drawing by the author's father, dated "Dzhambul, February 1943," depicts a scene from his time a decade earlier in Algiers. The Polish inscription translates as "calf years," or "salad days.”

What I learned from my father’s strange journey from Poland to the California desert

By Dvora Treisman/ JTA
 Left to right: Dani Kogan, Deborah Greenblatt, Julian Voloj, Francil Tejada and Bradley T. Borden hold copies of "We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope,” a comic book celebrating the diversity of the borough and pf participants in the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate, Nov. 18, 2024.

To fight hate, these Brooklyn-based nonprofit professionals wrote a comic book together

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 Left to right: Dani Kogan, Deborah Greenblatt, Julian Voloj, Francil Tejada and Bradley T. Borden hold copies of "We Are Brooklyn: Stories of Hope,” a comic book celebrating the diversity of the borough and pf participants in the We Are All Brooklyn Fellowship Against Hate, Nov. 18, 2024.

To fight hate, these Brooklyn-based nonprofit professionals wrote a comic book together

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA
 A Hasidic man walks by a police car in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn, April 24, 2017.

Man who attempted terror attack on Jewish New Yorkers in 2022 sentenced to 10 years in prison

By Luke Tress/JTA
Protesters gather at The University of Manchester campus, as students occupy parts of British university campuses to protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Manchester, Britain, May 7, 2024.

Edinburgh University accuses Palestine Society of threatening staff, to take disciplinary action

 Sia performs during the 2024 ADL “In Concert Against Hate” at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington D.C., Nov. 18, 2024

Stars including Sia and Ben Stiller turn out to honor Nova survivors at ADL ‘Concert Again Hate'

 People attend a demonstration against anti-Semitism at the Place de la Bastille, in Paris, France, June 20, 2024.

Social media antisemitism surges in Germany, France, and Hungary after October 7

Demonstrators take part in a pro-Palestine march in Berlin January 10, 2009. More that 6000 people shouted anti-Israel slogans to protest against the air strikes and the military action in the Gaza Strip, police said on Saturday

German architecture foundation revokes award to artist over Israel boycott stance

 Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, March 16, 2024

Why the Weitzman, a museum of American Jewish history, tapped an Israeli as its next CEO

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
Twitter app logo is seen in this illustration taken, August 22, 2022.

Shopify faces backlash for hosting store selling antisemitic merchandise

 Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Zvika Klein in a conversation with Ted Deutch, CEO of the American Jewish Committee.

JCU 2024: A global call for unity

 LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - SEPTEMBER 07: Protesters hold placards as they march from Regent Street St James to the Israeli Embassy during the National March for Palestine in central London, Saturday, September 7, 2024. The demonstration called for an end to the ongoing conflict and urged the UK gover

New survey in UK to assist addressing antisemitism in workplaces

 Professor Christer Mattson and David Lega at the 2024 EJA conference in Krakow.

Expert warns of a 'perfect antisemitic storm' masked as anti-Zionism in 2024

 Ta-Nehisi Coates at the University of Virginia during the MLK Celebration 2015

National Book Awards defends lifetime award for influential Black publisher of antisemitic book

By ANDREW LAPIN/JTA
 Twitch

Streaming platform Twitch bans the word ‘Zionist’ as proxy for spreading hate toward Jews, Israel

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
 Protestors take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Berlin, Germany, April 6, 2024.

Berlin police chief warns Jews and LGBTQ+ to exercise caution in certain areas

 Police officers stand amidst smoke billowing out from tear gas shells fired to disperse the crowd gathered to demand the removal of the army barricades in Bishnupur district, in the northeastern state of Manipur, India, September 6, 2023

Mass violence returns to Indian state home to the Bnei Menashe

Demonstrators take part in an antisemitism protest outside the Labour Party headquarters in central London, Britain April 8, 2018.

European leaders must convene to implement protections against antisemitism, AJC says

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