Tag: Charlottesville
UN accused of double standard in warning about racism in America
The United Nations is taking heat for warning that “racism and xenophobia are on the rise in America” in the wake of last weekend’s Charlottesville violence – amid criticism that their “sudden concern with...
Trump rejects accusations he compared white supremacists to Left
US President Donald Trump rejected on Thursday accusations he compared between white supremacists and those who protested against them in Charlottesville, Virginia as "a disgusting lie."
In a daybreak post on his Twitter account, Trump faulted...
Charlottesville Campus Chabad offers support to students
As Jewish students arrive over the next week for the new academic year at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Shlomo and Channa Mayer will be there for them. They will...
After Charlottesville, a surge in anti-Racism rallies across the Country
Sadie, 3, wore red-rimmed sunglasses to the Rally for Peace and Sanity at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York. As elected officials denounced racism and war, she sat in her father's lap, carrying...
After 3 days, PM condemns Charlottesville in vague statement
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday afternoon condemned the neo-Nazi rally three days after it took place in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“Outraged by expressions of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and racism. Everyone should oppose this hatred,” the prime...
Ivanka Trump condemns White Supremacy after father blames ‘Many Sides’
First Daughter and presidential advisor Ivanka Trump tweeted her disapproval of “racism, white supremacy and neo-nazis” on Sunday morning, one day after three people died due to clashes between white nationalist protesters and counter-protesters in Charlottesville,...
Charlottesville Mayor: Trump “Intentionally courted” racists and anti-Semites
MAYOR MICHAEL SINGER: Look at the campaign he ran. I mean, look at the intentional courting both on the one hand of all these white supremacists, white nationalist group like that, Antisemitic and then...
When Shostakovich wrote ‘From Jewish Folk Poetry’ and pissed off Stalin
The 20th-century Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich might be best known for his conflicted but patriotic symphonies, his daring operas, including two takes on Nikolai Leskov’s novella “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District,” or the...