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Jewish baseball fans have created an exhaustive list of Jewish players. They missed Monte Pfeiffer

Monte Pfeiffer, who played a single game for the Philadelphia Athletics some 112 years ago, had vanished into baseball obscurity

Monte Pfeiffer is No. 12, second from left on the bottom row in a photograph of the Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania) Coal Barons. The Jewish shortstop had a breakthrough year for the minor league team in 1913.

Argentinian President Javier Milei will use ‘Jewish Nobel’ to launch ‘Isaac Accords’

President of Argentina Javier Milei poses holding the Genesis Prize with Stan Polovets and Israeli President Isaac Herzog during the Genesis Prize ceremony at The Museum of Tolerance on June 12, 2025 in Jerusalem, Israel.

Massachusetts man sentenced to 26 months for threats to synagogues, Israel consulate

Cars speed by a parked police cruiser in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on April 21, 2023.

Homeland Security accused of tweeting antisemitic dog whistles

U.S. Department of Homeland Security emblem is pictured at the National Cybersecurity & Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) located just outside Washington in Arlington, Virginia September 24, 2010.

'Spat on, called a murderer': Israeli rabbi recounts antisemitism during tour in Poland - interview

In Warsaw, Ostroff was standing next to a marketplace when a 70-year-old woman walked up, spat on him, and then walked away.

AUGUST 14, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER

YOUTH TAKE part in The March of the Living at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland on Holocaust Remembrance Day last year. ‘As a mayor, an Israeli, a Jew, and someone who has experienced the profound heartbreak of the past year and a half, I travel there with a heavy heart but also a deep sense of purpose.

Highland Park Becomes First Illinois City to Enshrine IHRA Antisemitism Definition in Law

This ordinance sets a precedent that advocates hope will inspire municipalities across the country to follow suit

AUGUST 14, 2025ByCOMBAT ANTISEMITISM MOVEMENT

An illustrative image of the Israeli legal system

'Advocating for terrorism': French politician who sailed with Gaza flotilla questioned by police

In response to the police summons, Forreau wrote that there is a "criminalization of voices for Palestine" but that she will not be silenced.

AUGUST 14, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER

French-Swedish leftist politician Emma Forreau.

Shi'ite org. axes UK children's summer camp following radicalization concerns, Iran ties

Camp Wilayah aimed to "deepen kids' understanding of Islamic values," while imposing the use of hijab and segregating between girls and boys.

AUGUST 14, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER

Muslim women attend Friday prayers at Iqraa Dunmurry Mosque in Belfast, Northern Ireland, August 9, 2024.

After a contentious election, Romania’s few Jews remain on guard against antisemitism

Romanian Jews discuss antisemitism and anti-Zionism after the October 7 Massacre and the Israel-Hamas War.

AUGUST 14, 2025ByLARRY LUXNER/JTA

The synagogue in Sighisoara, Romania, serves a town that no longer has any Jews.

New York man sentenced for firing shotgun outside Albany synagogue during Hanukkah

The 29-year-old had traveled to Temple Israel by Uber on December 7, and approached the house of worship's entrance with a Kel-Tec 12-gauge pump shotgun.

AUGUST 13, 2025ByMICHAEL STARR

Star of David necklace ripped from neck, beaten for wearing a kippah, antisemitic attack in France

"There is an explosion of antisemitic acts and threats, the Israel/Hamas conflict has been transposed onto our soil," Richard Zelmati of the Crif Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes told Actu Lyon.

AUGUST 13, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER