The Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) was proud to host, in partnership with the UJA-Federation of New York, an interfaith and intercultural reception in Jerusalem on Monday greeting New York City Mayor Eric Adams on his first visit to Israel since taking office. At the event, held at the Jerusalem Campus for the Arts, Mayor Adams met a group of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian religious leaders representing a diverse range of communities that comprise Israel’s vibrant social fabric.
Mayor Adams was also the guest of honor at the “White City Soirée” in Tel Aviv. The event was co-hosted by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM), F2 Venture Capital, and Ximus Forum, where the Mayor spoke with a group of top Israeli business, finance, and technology leaders.
Co-Chairs of the U.S. Senate and House Bipartisan Task Forces for Combating Antisemitism, Senators Jacky Rosen (D-NV), James Lankford (R-OK) and Representatives Kathy Manning (D-NC) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) led a bipartisan group of lawmakers urging the Department of Education to take additional steps to counter antisemitism and protect Jewish students on college campuses.
Multiple antisemitic incidents were reported across the United States this week. In Georgia, police closed several streets around the Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta following a bomb threat. In California, five Los Angeles kosher restaurants were burglarized, prompting an investigation by the city’s police department.
In New York City, police were investigating a string of apparent antisemitic hate crimes in Brooklyn. In one of the incidents, a bike-riding assailant slapped a visibly-Jewish male passerby, and a woman was also struck nearby a short time later. Separately, two suspects on a moped knocked off a Jewish man's yarmulke in Borough Park. With Germany experiencing a rise in crimes targeting Jews, a Jewish father and son were verbally assaulted while walking in Berlin.
In France, a kosher restaurant near Paris was defaced with antisemitic graffiti. Amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, top Russian officials continue to distort and trivialize the Holocaust with comparisons of the government in Kyiv to the Nazi regime.
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