Earlier this month, it looked like the host of the anti-Semitic show “The Daily Shoah” would be booted from the white nationalist movement known as the “alt-right.” Mike Enoch, a leading “alt-right” figure, was revealed to be a web developer named Mike Peinovich — whose wife is Jewish. How could a self-respecting white nationalist be…
For Richard Spencer, the leading ideologue of the “alt-right,” Donald Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day statement that failed to mention Jews or anti-Semitism was an important, perhaps revolutionary, step. Spencer dubbed it the “de-Judification” of the Holocaust. Jewish activists, Spencer wrote in a short post for his new website, Altright.com, have long insisted on making the…
A Jewish aide to President Donald Trump wrote his January 27 International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, controversial for its omission of Jews, according to POLITICO. On Monday, press secretary Sean Spicer said that an individual who is Jewish and the descendent of Holocaust survivors helped to write the statement. Trump aide Boris Epshteyn fits that…
Police investigating the shooting at a Quebec mosque that killed six have narrowed down their list of suspects to one man who, based on social media activity and accounts of people who know him, has far-right, anti-immigrant sympathies. Authorities claim that Alexander Bissonnette, a student at the city’s Laval University, perpetrated the attack, calling in…
In his first public appearance after signing his controversial executive order that effectively issued a Muslim ban, President Donald Trump didn’t spend too much time defending himself. Instead he was busy mocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “I noticed Chuck Schumer yesterday with the fake tears,” Trump told reporters on Monday during a meeting with…
As Jewish leaders rang the alarm this weekend over the White House’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, only one Jewish group stood by Donald Trump’s side. Trump’s statement, released Friday, mourned the Holocaust, in which Nazis killed 6 million Jews, without mentioning Jews. Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress and a college classmate…
Hundreds of refugees, immigrants and even legal U.S. residents were detained this past weekend following President Trump’s controversial travel ban. Most of the people affected were Muslims, but the ban hit Jews, too. One of them was Manny Dahari, a Yemeni Jew who saved his whole family from their native land. He has a green…
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer cried during a press conference condemning President Trump’s Muslim ban on Sunday. Trump’s executive order bans refugees and immigrants from Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Schumer spoke surrounded by recently resettled Syrian refugees and an Iraqi man who served the U.S. Army for 10 years, and just made it…
Jared Kushner’s family charities have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to a mystical Moroccan rabbi who some followers claim has miraculous powers. The rabbi, David Chananya Pinto, is little known in the United States but has a coterie of wealthy backers. Two separate Kushner family foundations on whose boards Jared Kushner serves have given…
Steve Rosenthal, mayor of the rural Mississippi town of Indianola, didn’t start out in politics, but with his experiences as a longtime merchant in the town of just over 10,000, he was well positioned to run for office and try to bridge a racially divided community. Located in the Mississippi Delta, Indianola is known as…
Reform Judaism, America’s largest denominational stream, boasts some 900 congregations in America, including some with thousands of member families. So what possessed Rabbi David Ellenson, the renowned scholar and then-president of Reform Judaism’s Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, to travel to tiny Temple Beth El, in Lexington, Mississippi, — population 2,000 — for that…
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