While millions of Americans watched Wednesday’s surreal events unfold on cable news outlets and mainstream media websites, at least 16,000 watched the insurrectionists invade the U.S. Capitol building in real time via livestreams posted by members of the mob themselves. Instead of Norah O’Donnell or Anderson Cooper, their host was a 33-year-old neo-Nazi who has…
As the mob violence at the United States Capitol died down later Wednesday evening, right-wing rioters remained in front of the building to bask in what they saw as the glory of a day that will likely go down as one of the darkest in American history. Even as people around the country saw an…
(JTA) — Marvin and Zippora Hyman were married for nearly half a century and as inseparable in life as they were in death. The couple died of COVID-19 within 24 hours of each other. Marvin died on March 29 at 92. Zippora died the following day at 75. A retired airplane mechanic, Marvin came down…
(JTA) — Ruth Friedman could tell that Wednesday’s pro-Trump protests in Washington, D.C., might be volatile when she boarded a plane home to D.C. from her grandmother’s funeral on Tuesday. The flight was full of people in MAGA gear on their way to Washington to protest the results of the presidential election, as President Donald…
As photos and videos of the insurrection at the Capitol trickled out of Washington, D.C., a pattern emerged — well-known antisemites and their symbols were at the uprising or cheering it on from afar. That guy’s hoodie says “Camp Auschwitz.” https://t.co/I2hwHZ1MsD — Matt Ford (@fordm) January 6, 2021 Here’s a guide to some of the…
They compared the scene at the Capitol to the violent regimes their parents fled. They condemned President Trump’s half-hearted response as his supporters stormed congressional offices. They posted jarring photographs of Confederate flags flying in the halls of America’s most important government building, concluding grimly that “the Civil War isn’t over.” Jewish leaders, writers and…
Updated: 4:59 pm EST. This is a breaking news story and will be updated as the situation develops. The violent storming of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday by far-right protesters came after 36 hours of protests in D.C. that centered on antisemitic conspiracy theories, including QAnon, and claims that George Soros and other prominent Jewish Americans…
During Sen. Chuck Schumer’s first Senate run for a New York seat in 1998, in a private meeting with Jewish supporters, Republican Sen. Al D’Amato called his upstart competitor a “putzhead,” literally meaning “penis-head.” Schumer has come a long way. Now, after victories for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in competitive Senate runoffs in Georgia,…
(JTA) — The chief suspect in a New York City bomb hoax is a 22-year-old far-right activist who once served as a leader of a Jewish youth group. Louis Shenker, who surrendered to police on Tuesday, according to NBC News, was a BBYO regional vice president five years ago while in high school. Campus provocations…
A Jewish father is dead and his two young children presumed drowned after a sneaker wave, a surge that appears with tremendous force and no warning, dragged them into the ocean at a Sonoma County beach last weekend. The tragedy occurred on Sunday, Jan. 3, when Petaluma resident Michael Wyman, 40, his wife, Sarah, and…
This wasn’t Jon Ossoff’s first race. If his name sounded familiar last year, when he challenged Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue before heading into Nov. 5’s closely watched Georgia runoff, there’s a reason. In 2017, Ossoff ran to represent Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District. He then achieved the curious distinction of being one of the first…
