We must demand a public condemnation of this horrific display of hatred and intimidation against a minority group, as well as adequate security measures to protect those targeted.
The rally falls one day before the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 Nazi pogrom during which Jewish businesses, homes and synagogues were attacked in Germany.
Known as the Synagogue of the American Revolution, Congregation Mikveh Israel was founded in 1740 by Spanish and Portuguese Jews who settled in the United States, and it remains the second-oldest continuously operating Jewish congregation in the country.
Clift A. Seferlis, 55, of Garrett Park, Maryland, was arrested on charges of mailing threatening messages to the Jewish Museum, mentioning the building's windows and referencing Kristallnacht.
'I started looking, and I kept finding more and more disturbing content that was first of all directed at young people—children, middle-school age or maybe even younger frankly—and that it was all of an anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist nature.'
'I apologize for my previous post and the hurt this has caused, and I regret the insult, pain and offense it brought to all, especially those of the Jewish community,' says Rodney Muhammad.
A video of children singing in Arabic about chopping off heads wasn't vetted before being posted on the Muslim American Society Philadelphia chapter's Facebook page, the group's executive director said Sunday.
The Philadelphia Police Department on Thursday announced an internal review after a photograph surfaced online of an officer with a tattoo that the mayor called 'incredibly offensive,' especially to veterans and victims of the Nazis.
With Philadelphia councilwoman's decision to honor a Palestinian terror supporter, the City of Brotherly Love becomes a place where hatred is promoted.
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