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FEDERATION NEWS November 2020 9A

Introducing CRConnect

By Jessi Sheslow, Director of Community Relations
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‹ The United States Department will address through CRConnect each
of State has adopted the interna- month. Look for this next question in November 7, 2020 • 7:30pm
tional definition of antisemitism: the December edition of The Jewish
“Antisemitism is a certain per- News:
ception of Jews, which may be The Palestinians were in Israel
expressed as hatred toward Jews. first, then it was flooded with Eu-
Rhetorical and physical manifes- ropean Jews from the Holocaust. I
tations of antisemitism are direct- have sympathy for someone fleeing
ed toward Jewish or non-Jewish the Holocaust, but they shouldn’t be
individuals and/or their property, able to just take over someone else’s
toward Jewish community institu- land, should they?
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