Elmo, Jews and THE FILES
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The Manila Times on MSNElmo’s X account calls for Jews’ exterminationThe X account of Sesame Street’s Elmo, a beloved children’s television character, shared antisemitic and anti-Donald Trump posts after being hacked on Sunday. A slew of messages calling for the extermination of Jewish people and labeling the United States president a “puppet” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were shared on the account.
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The Forward on MSNMandy Patinkin calls on Jews to reflect on Gaza war: ‘is this acceptable and sustainable?’In an interview published Saturday, famed Jewish actor Mandy Patinkin and his wife, actress Kathryn Grody, condemned Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza and decried Jewish people who “allow this to happen.” Their comments to The New York Times magazine,
Ten Jewish nonprofits were awarded $300,000 in grant funding from the Bay Area-based Jews of Color Initiative.
Once again, the French Jewish Army captain Alfred Dreyfus is making headlines. More than 130 years after his trial for espionage, and 90 years after his death, France’s National Assembly has voted
The niece of the China-based billionaire purportedly backing left-wing protest groups in the US spearheaded the “Jews for Zohran’” Mamdani campaign—a bid to give the Israel-bashing candidate
The remnants of an ancient community face a new age of anxiety after decades of uneasy coexistence with the mullahs’ regime.
In the shadow of Hitler's 1938 annexation of Austria, Kundanlal, a machine tool manufacturer from Ludhiana city in the northern state of Punjab, quietly offered Jewish professionals jobs in India to get them life-saving visas. He offered work, provided livelihood and build homes for those families in India. Kundanlal rescued five families.
A man reads one of the plaques newly placed near a Polish monument to the wartime Jedwabne massacre of Jews by their Polish neighbors, July 10, 2025. The plaques question the official findings and claim that "the crime was committed by a German pacification unit" instead of local Poles. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP via Getty Images)