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Eileen Filler-Corn was elected on Nov. 5, 2019, as both the first female and first Jewish Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. Source: Screenshot.

Virginia House elects first Jewish and female speaker

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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

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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...