Yom Hashoah: When The Boston Braves Wore Swastikas
Contrary to coventional wisdom, the swastika was far from obscure before the Nazis, and so benign that it was an infrequent but not unknown sports logo even in North America.read more
View ArticleADL Downgrades Swastika As Jewish Hate Symbol
Adam Dickter Assistant Managing Editor Watchdog group adopts new, conservative reporting of incidents against Jews.The painting of a swastika — that dark, ubiquitous signature of hateful vandals...
View ArticleSubversive Swastika: Or, Is Nara's Art Innoncent?
Years ago, on a trip to Japan, I came across a swastika. Dozens of them, actually, in museums across the country. I was shocked, what Westerner wouldn't be? No doubt this has happened to many...
View ArticleRetailer Removes Swastika Earrings
Staff Report Brooklyn City Councilman Steve Levin on Wednesday said a Greenpoint jewelry would stop selling earrings with a swastika design."I am pleased that Bejeweled has heeded my call to remove...
View ArticleDepicting Nazi Flag-Draped White House Was ‘Insensitive At Best’
Stewart Ain Staff Writer Ami Magazine editor apologizes, says controversial cover was not meant to ‘suggest anything about the present administration.’The editor of Ami Magazine acknowledged in this...
View ArticleSwastika Banners Startle New Yorkers
JTA A swastika on the banner of an airplane startled beach-goers in New York and surrounding states. The banner included the word swastika and a swastika intertwined with a Star of David, the symbol...
View ArticleAn Opera Singer’s Final Scene
Some cross words were exchanged at a prominent cultural festival in Germany last week.Not angry words – words about a politically symbolic cross, the swastika.read more
View ArticleN.Y. Cabbie Suspended For Swastika Armband
JTA The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission suspended a driver for a month for wearing a swastika armband. The Anti-Defamation League’s New York regional office, which brought the complaint...
View ArticleFirebomb Thrown At Kiev’s Oldest Synagogue
JTA Kiev’s oldest synagogue was the target of a firebomb that burst into flames outside the building.read more
View ArticleHitler, Everywhere: A List
Elana Kook Editorial Intern Hitler featured on Swiss coffee creamers are just one of many products bearing the Nazi leader's likeness. It's not enough that Switzerland was "neutral" during the war,...
View ArticleSwastika Supporters Want Their Wrapping Paper Back
Hannah Dreyfus Staff Writer One day after Walgreens pulls the paper, members of the Raelian movement push for a recall of the recall. Not only Nazis love the swastika.read more
View ArticleTufts University Vandalized Again With Swastikas
JTA Swastikas were found spray-painted on a Tufts University building for the third time in nearly two years.read more
View ArticleSwastika Supporters Want Their Wrapping Paper Back
Hannah Dreyfus Staff Writer Not only Nazis love the swastika. After last week’s national recall of Walgreens wrapping paper containing a subtle (but inadvertent) swastika pattern, a religious group...
View ArticleLondon Neighborhood Again Vandalized With Swastikas
JTA More than 20 cars and buildings in a Jewish community in north London were vandalized with swastikas.read more
View ArticleSwastikas Painted On Jewish Frat House At Vanderbilt
JTA Two swastikas were spray-painted on a Jewish fraternity house at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. The vandalism occurred early Saturday morning at Alpha Epsilon Pi and was discovered...
View ArticleSwastikas Found In Dorm At Northeastern U.
JTA Swastikas were drawn on a campus dormitory board at Northeastern University in Boston.read more
View ArticleStudents At Bronx Private School Draw Swastikas; Administrators Address It As...
Jeremy Uliss Editorial Intern Nein to Swastika Sign Few images evoke as much revulsion as the swastika. But, some sixth-graders and administrators at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in Riverdale,...
View ArticleSwastika Incident Reverberating At Fieldston
Amy Sara Clark Deputy Managing Editor Parents at elite Riverdale school say swastika-as-peace symbol assembly is part of a long pattern of slights against Jews. When the Ethical Culture Fieldston...
View ArticleSwastikas And Silliness: The Fuss At Fieldston
Michael Lesher Special To The Jewish Week Crying “wolf” helps nobody but wolves.“The greatest triumphs of propaganda,” wrote Aldous Huxley, “have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by...
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