Jackie Hajdenberg, JTA

For the past five years, a specialty “command center” that researches anti-Semitism has been operating inside the New England Patriots’ home stadium in this Boston suburb — and tracked a rise in Hitler glorification since last February.

In 1976, deep in New York City’s fiscal crisis, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles read a review of her conceptual work in the Village Voice. In his review, critic David Bourdon made a radical suggestion inspired by Ukeles’ thesis: What if municipal work, like the Sanitation Department, were conceptual art? Could it get funded by grants, instead of by the city?

A support group for interfaith Jewish families has slashed its workforce after facing an unanticipated budget shortfall. 18Doors announced on March 31 that it had “significantly” reduced its staff due to budget constraints. 

Living in Amsterdam in the years after WW II, Karin Prien’s parents’ bookshelves were lined with the works of Jewish authors like Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and Isaac Bashevis Singer. When she was a young child and her family moved from the vibrant and multicultural city of Amsterdam to Neuwied, a small town in Rhineland, their Jewish social life dwindled. In Germany, her mother was afraid to publicly declare her Jewish roots. It was the country that perpetrated the Holocaust.

Two minors have been arrested in connection with a car burning in the Jewish quarter of Antwerp in what is being treated as an anti-Semitic attack, Belgian prosecutors say. The two suspects were arrested shortly before midnight March 23, just minutes after setting the vehicle on fire.