The Times of Israel

Jewish leaders condemn ‘Tax the Jews’ chant at San Francisco protest

Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent. Jewish leaders condemn protesters who chanted “tax the Jews” at an event in San Francisco yesterday. San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

San Francisco mayor Daniel Lurie condemns ‘Tax the Jews’ chant heard during protest

Jewish leaders and California elected officials have condemned an antisemitic chant that was audible during a protest Wednesday against the repeal of a local San Francisco tax ordinance. During a news ...
The Jewish Exponent

Crowd Chants ‘Bring Them Home’ as Parents of Israeli Hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin Speak at DNC

The crowd erupted in chants of “Bring them home,” some shed tears, and for the entire time Rachel Goldberg-Polin and Jon Polin spoke at the Democratic National Convention, tens of thousands of ...
BBC

Antisemitic chants at school football game reported

Norfolk police said it received a report of a hate crime during a football match, held on Laundry Lane, Thorpe St Andrew The under-15 boys of London school JFS were playing in a national cup ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

‘Tax the Jews’ chants break out at event held by Jewish mayor of San Francisco

“Suggesting that Jews are wealthy is a tired trope, and targeting our community at an event focused on creating economic opportunity for San Franciscans is decidedly antisemitic,” Mayor Lurie said. At ...
The Forward

Reviving Jewish folk tunes that were nearly lost forever

This article previously appeared in Yiddish. I recently learned that between 1928 and 1938, a Soviet-Jewish musicologist, ethnographer and folklorist named Sofia Magid gave the Jewish world a precious ...