Anti-Defamation League

Akin Praised, Reviewed Unit of Militia Group He Recently Claimed He Had Nothing to Do With

Updated with response from Akin's spokesperson Rick Tyler. In 1995, a month before the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, Todd Akin sent a local militia group what he later called "a courtesy letter." The now-defunct group, the 1st Missouri Volunteers militia, had invited Akin to spea ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Why do Mexicans paint murals on lowriders?

Sunken Treasure: To close the 2011 season, Opera Theatre re-launches The Death of Klinghoffer

Fair-y Tales: Russell Pearce and other illegal immigrant populists rely on misleading, right-wing reports to scapegoat immigrants and terrify penny-pinched Americans

Interview Outtakes: Kipp Lennon on Roger Waters' Artistry and Why the Anti-Defamation League's Wall Protest is Misguided

Ken Murphy/venice centralRoger Waters with the band Venice. Kipp Lennon is second from the left​In this week's paper, Matt Wardlaw spoke to Kipp Lennon of the band Venice. Lennon and two of his bandmates are part of the backing band for Roger Waters' The Wall tour, which is stopping by the Sco ... More >>

Missouri: 10th in Number of Anti-Semitic Incidents in '09

​The Anti-Defamation League yesterday released the findings of its 2009 audit on the number of anti-Semitic incidents occurring last year in the U.S. The study found a total of 1,211 acts targeting Jews -- including 29 assaults, 422 acts of vandalism and 760 incidents of harassment. Not surprising ... More >>

Video: KKK Leader and U.S. Senate Hopeful from Mo. Talks "Inferior Races"

Heard about Missouri's U.S. Senate hopeful Glenn Miller? The Springfield man is a former leader of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan and has been airing bizarre radio advertisements throughout the state denouncing the white man for being cowardly and blaming Jews for all the country's problems. (Liste ... More >>

Hey, That's Our Holiday! Florida Middle Schoolers Celebrate "Kick a Jew Day"

Remember the outrage and handwringing last October when a few suburban St. Louis middle school students celebrated "Hit a Jew Day"? Well, guess what? The holiday -- at least a variation of it -- is back. This time it occurred at a middle school in Naples, Florida, where ten students were suspended l ... More >>

Good News For Your Next Vacation to Afghanistan

www.funnyphotos.net.auPlanning a little weekend getaway to lovely Afghanistan? Bird watching in the FARC-controlled jungles of Colombia? Visiting a quaint little health spa in Mogadishu? You're in luck.Thanks to a bill signed into law today by governor Jay Nixon, Missouri life insurance providers ca ... More >>

Holocaust on Trial

Lewis Greenberg argues his lawn is art in court.

An Evening with Bruce Vilanch

Mexicans: They're the new Irish.

Week of November 23, 2006

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Week of August 24, 2005

Potato Peeled

Who bumped Frank "Couch Potato" Weltner from the Internet? Blame it on the Jews.

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Stars of David

The Jewish Film Festival of St. Louis unspools this week

Blood Money

Why John Cusack wouldn't do anything till he made this Hitler movie

Stupid Racist Tricks

St. Louis' homegrown white-rights leader rises with Lott's fall

THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR KILLIN'

An intense study of the mechanics of hate gets a staged reading by the New Jewish Theatre