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Earlier this week, AJC Chief Policy and Political Affairs Officer Jason Isaacson shares an inside look on the high-level U.S. Department of Justice Summit on Combating Antisemitism and the U.S. administration’s increased efforts to combat resurgent antisemitism. We were also joined by Tyler Gregory, Executive Director of A Wider Bridge, who shared his thoughts on Israeli Education Minister Rabbi Rafi Peretz’s controversial statements on gay conversion therapy, accusations of “pinkwashing,” and Israel’s first openly gay cabinet minister.

Los Angeles – The Los Angeles Regional Office of AJC (American Jewish Committee) condemned an act of antisemitic vandalism targeting the Hebrew Discovery Center, a synagogue and school in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles. The suspect defaced the front of the building with paint.

FC Bayern launched their 2019 Audi Summer Tour at the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) with the opening of their exhibit: “Venerated-Persecuted-Forgotten: Victims of Nazism at FC Bayern Munich”—its first appearance outside of Germany and Austria.

An erosion of the post-war consensus on antisemitism in the Federal Republic of Germany is well underway, and Der Spiegel, the leading weekly German news magazine, is not helping.

Since antisemitism is symptomatic of a greater societal malaise, it should be made clear that antisemitism is not a "Jewish" problem, but a hatred that eats away at the foundations of our society. In this fight, nothing less than the future of an open, liberal, Europe is at stake.