Tag: Charlottesville
From Charlottesville to Chicago
President Joe Biden is rightly being raked over the coals by Republicans for his latest egregious display of hypocrisy, which in this case couldn’t be chalked up solely to brain fog.
In his speech on...
Biden appoints Jewish legal expert to Library of Congress committee
U.S. President Joe Biden said on March 3 that among those he intends to appoint to key roles is a senior university administrator who is a Jewish expert on constitutional and civil-rights law.
Biden announced Risa...
Neo-Nazis are not a political metaphor
All may be fair in love, war and politics, but you have to wonder about the astonishingly poor judgment of the political gurus at the Lincoln Project for their latest act of campaign malpractice....
Did the Charlottesville quote define Donald Trump?
Three years later, we’re still quoting, discussing and debating it. If there is a defining moment of the presidency of Donald Trump, it took place at a press conference on Aug. 15, 2017, when...
Ohio man pleads not guilty to threatening to shoot up Jewish community center
A self-identified white nationalist in Ohio has pleaded not guilty to threatening the Youngstown Jewish Community Center.
James Reardon Jr., 20, appeared in front of a municipal court judge on Monday following his arrest on...
Charlottesville, one year later
It was an image straight out of a standard Jewish nightmare. The spectacle of neo-Nazis and their Ku Klux Klan allies holding a torchlight parade through the streets of an American city while chanting...
Neo-Nazis, anti-Semitism and the cycle of hatred in America
I fully expected the recent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., to turn into a hate-filled demonstration against African-Americans. What caught me by surprise, though, was the venomous attack on Jews.
Please allow me to...
The disappearing Jew
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The white supremacist participating in the “Unite the Right” march who claimed that Charlottesville, Va., is “run...
Worried about anti-Semitism? practice the tolerance you preach.
In The Forward, JFREJ member leader and Women’s March organizer Sophie Ellman-Golan responds the events in Charlottesville through the prism of recent attacks on JFREJ allies Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory and Carmen Perez. She...
Ivanka Trump praises counter-protesters after demonstrations
Ivanka Trump, President Donald Trump's eldest daughter and a senior adviser to her father, praised counter- protesters in the wake of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and her father's recent controversial remarks, which sparked a wave of...