Jewish Press editor attended the Capitol siege

The scene outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2020. Photo by Getty/Tasos Katopodis/Stringer

By Molly Boigon April 8, 2021

The chief editor of the Jewish Press, an Orthodox newspaper in New York, attended the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, POLITICO reported after reviewing video footage of the attack.

Elliot Resnick, who interviewed the lawyer defending former President Donald Trump in February, has been a longtime supporter of Trump. He wrote a personal essay for the conservative website American Thinker defending the rioters, without mentioning that he was among the crowd.

Resnick has not been charged with any crime, POLITICO reported. Groups like the Anti-Defamation League have condemned the Jewish Press in the past for publishing anti-LGBTQ articles, and Resnick has called African religions “primitive” and suggested white nationalists do not exist.

What is a “white nationalist” and when is the last time such a creature walked the planet?

— Elliot Resnick (@ResnickElliot) July 11, 2019

While the Jewish community largely votes Democratic in presidential elections, Orthodox Jews skew conservative. The Orthodox publication Ami Magazine featured Trump’s consultant and ally Roger Stone on its cover this month, and The Five Towns Jewish Times, an Orthodox paper in New York, generated outrage over a photo of a columnist at the Capitol siege.

Molly Boigon is an investigative reporter at the Forward. Contact her at [email protected] or follow her on Twitter @MollyBoigon.

The Forward is free to read, but it isn’t free to produce

I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward.

Now more than ever, American Jews need independent news they can trust, with reporting driven by truth, not ideology. We serve you, not any ideological agenda.

At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse.

Readers like you make it all possible. We’ve started our Passover Fundraising Drive, and we need 1,800 readers like you to step up to support the Forward by April 21. Members of the Forward board are even matching the first 1,000 gifts, up to $70,000.

This is a great time to support independent Jewish journalism, because every dollar goes twice as far.

— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO