Tag: Virginia
Virginia House elects first Jewish and female speaker
Virginians elected Eileen Filler-Corn as both the first Jewish and female Speaker of the state’s House of Delegates on Tuesday.
A Democrat, Filler-Corn, 55, has represented the Fairfax County suburbs of Washington, D.C., in the...
Richmond Jewish Food Festival
RICHMOND, Va. - Diane Goldberg and Miriam Davidow, Co-Organizers of The Richmond Jewish Food Festival, stopped by the studio to share a preview of this year’s two-day event. The festival will feature a large...
The dark political history of American anti-Semitism
When hundreds of white supremacists bearing torches and giving the Nazi salute descended upon the University of Virginia’s campus on August 11, they began a chant that would have been entirely unrecognizable to the...
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...
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,...
GoDaddy drops neo-Nazi site that mocked Virginia rally victim
Web hosting company GoDaddy says it will no longer provide service to the neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer after it posted an article that mocked the anti-hate crusader killed in Charlottesville, Va.
The world’s largest...
At a synagogue, gubernatorial candidate blames anti-Semitism on the left
Republican gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart told an audience at a northern Virginia synagogue Sunday night that he blames the political left for rising anti-Semitism, stunning many in the audience who felt Stewart excused bigotry...