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WSB-TV By Ryan Tarinelli, Jim Mustian and Larry Neumeister December 31, 2019 Thomas charged with stabbing 5 at Hanukkah party at rabbi’s home A man charged with federal hate crimes Monday in a bloody attack on a Hanukkah celebration had handwritten journals containing anti-Semitic references and had recently used his phone to look up information on Hitler and the location of synagogues, authorities said. Grafton Thomas, 37, was held without bail after appearing in federal court in White Plains...

The Root Chante Griffin December 31, 2019 Rev. Al Sharpton denounced anti-Semitism Monday after 37-year-old Grafton Thomas from Orange County, New York, was charged with a federal hate crime in the Dec. 28 stabbing of five Jewish people during a Hanukkah celebration. Sharpton spoke at a press conference at the National Action Network in New York, alongside Black and Jewish leaders, ABC News reports. “We’ve gathered this morning because over the last several days, there has been several attacks and...

New York Daily News By Trevor Boyer and Leonard Green December 30, 2019 Black and Jewish leaders joined forces Monday to speak out against anti-Semitic attacks in the wake of a madman’s machete onslaught that left five men wounded at a Chanukah celebration in Rockland County. Even with a black man in custody and charged with hate crimes for the attack at a Hasidic rabbi’s Monsey, N.Y., home, religious leaders and elected officials partnered in peace to denounce a violent bias blitz that has Jews...

Jewish Telegraphic Agency By Marcy Oster December 30, 2019 A group of African-American clergy and civil rights leaders gathered by the Rev. Al Sharpton met with a New York rabbi in the wake of the attack on Jews in Monsey. The African-American leaders met Monday with Rabbi Marc Schneier, president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding, to condemn the spate of attacks on Jews in New York in recent weeks. “I am terribly disturbed by the recent anti-Semitic attacks on Jews, and particularly because...

The Jerusalem Post By Marc Schneier December 23, 2019 The proliferation of antisemitic attacks this year in the United States and globally shook the global Jewish community to its core – the attack on the Chabad of Poway Synagogue, a synagogue in Halle, Germany, the kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, this month, and unfortunately, the list goes on and on. However, amid our grief, fear and anger at these escalating attacks, and at increased demonization of Israel from the likes of the...

5 Towns Jewish Times December 12, 2019 Rabbi Marc Schneier and Prince Abdulla Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding/senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY, and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU), will lead the first synagogue mission to Azerbaijan and Oman early next year. The eight-day trip will begin in Azerbaijan where participants will meet with high-level government and public officials and local Jewish leaders....

Medium By Kevin Singer December 4, 2019 Kevin Singer is a PhD Student in higher education and Research Associate for IDEALS at North Carolina State University. According to the new IDEALS national report on interfaith friendship, Evangelical Protestant institutions are negatively associated with first year college students making close friends of other faiths. “Students at Evangelical Protestant institutions may find themselves in more homogenous communities,” the report reads. Many Evangelical...

AZERTAC December 03, 2019 Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding and senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, New York, will lead the first synagogue mission to Azerbaijan and Oman early next year, according to TPS news agency. The eight-day trip will begin in Azerbaijan where participants will meet with high-level government and public officials, and local Jewish leaders. The group will celebrate the Purim holiday with the Jewish community of Azerbaijan. They will then travel to Oman to...

Arutz Sheva Staff December 03, 2019 15:52 Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding/senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY, to lead delegation to Muslim nations. Rabbi Schneier with the President of Azerbaijan Rabbi Marc Schneier, founding/senior rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY and president of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU), will lead the first synagogue mission to Azerbaijan and Oman early next year. The eight-day trip will begin in Azerbaijan...

The New York Daily News By Marc Schneier, Sayyid Syeed and Bob Roberts November 27, 2019 As hundreds of millions of adherents of our three interconnected Abrahamic traditions — Judaism, Islam and Christianity — sit down at Thanksgiving dinner tables across America, many of us will devoutly give thanks for the presence in their lives of husbands and wives, children, members of their extended families and dear friends. Indeed, expressing our love for those to whom we are closest is an inspiring sentiment...