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A Yom Kippur Blood Libel in New York

By Lauren Gilbert, Director of Public Services

A Yom Kippur Blood Libel in New York

Two days before Yom Kippur in 1928, a four-year-old girl named Barbara Griffiths wandered into the woods near her home in Massena, New York, a small town in St. Lawrence County along the Canadian border. After a day of fruitless searching by crews and volunteers, the New York State…

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Fighting Antisemitism on the Eve of Decolonization

May 30, 2024
By Ludwig Decke, 2023 CJH-Fordham University Fellow

Fighting Antisemitism on the Eve of Decolonization

In the late spring of 1955, West London Synagogue’s Stern Hall hummed with a flurry of voices in various languages. Over one hundred representatives of Jewish communities and organizations, originating from twenty countries, huddled behind long rows of tables in the smoke-filled conference…

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