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Jewish American people in Alaska politics (1 C, 7 P) This page was last edited on 16 January 2025, at 10:43 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
In the wake of the fatal accident, some black youths attacked several Jews on the street, seriously injuring several and fatally injuring Yankel Rosenbaum, an Orthodox Jewish student from Australia. [88] April 17, 1986 Murder 1 0 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Neal Rosenblum: was shot and killed because of his Jewish appearance, wearing Haredi ...
The history of the Jews in Alaska began before the Alaska Purchase in 1867. Jews from Imperial Russia lived there periodically as fur traders, and a Jewish community has existed since the 1880s. The Klondike and Nome gold rushes attracted Jews to Alaska to seek their fortunes as miners and businessmen and resulted in the first organized Jewish ...
The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles called Kessler's death an "antisemitic crime" and stated that violence against the Jewish people had no place and they would not tolerate violence against the community. The Council on American-Islamic Relations denounced the alleged attack and expressed support for the Jewish community. [25]
The rally, organized by the Jewish Federations of North America in just over a week's time, drew a cross-section of the community, bridging the political and religious divides of American Jewry.
In November 1938, two weeks after Kristallnacht, Ickes proposed the use of Alaska as a "haven for Jewish refugees from Germany and other areas in Europe where the Jews are subjected to oppressive restrictions." Resettlement in Alaska would allow the refugees to bypass normal immigration quotas, because Alaska was a territory and not a state.
Threats to Jews in the United States spiked over 200% in the one-year period since the deadly October 7th terrorist attack on Israel by Hamas, according to new data obtained by CNN from the Anti ...
The vast majority of lynching victims in the United States have been African Americans. Over 4,000 African Americans have been lynched in American history. [2] Around 1,000 lynching victims have been white. Among white lynching victims, American Jews, Italian Americans, a German-American, a Finnish-American, and others have been lynched.