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News Amid Kushner intervention, Trump wrote ‘shockingly gracious’ note to Biden, book claims
Biden’s chief strategist says in new book that focus on Charlottesville and neo-Nazis was was ‘one of the reasons’ Biden won the election
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Fast Forward Judge slashes Charlottesville penalties by 90%, from $26M awarded by jury to $2.35M
The Jewish attorneys behind the case say they might appeal the judge’s decision to hew to Virginia’s law capping damages
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Fast Forward Amy Spitalnick will go from fighting Charlottesville neo-Nazis to leading Bend the Arc
Integrity First For America, Spitalnick’s legal nonprofit that won $25m from the Charlottesville march’s organizers, will shut down
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News Tom Gutherz: Rabbi Fighting the Far Right
Rabbi Tom Gutherz, 64, wants you to know that Charlottesville’s Jews did not cower as white supremacists marched outside Beth Israel synagogue
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Opinion Charlottesville’s Jews have seen white supremacy up close. Our work is far from over
My heart skipped a beat when the outcome was announced at the trial of the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally here in Charlottesville. The white supremacists and their organizations were found guilty of conspiracy to commit violence, and are liable for over $25 million in damages to those who were directly wounded…
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News Jurors award $25 million to Charlottesville plaintiffs, deadlocked on federal racially-motivated conspiracy
The jury deadlocked on whether defendants in the Charlottesville trial had committed “racially motivated violence” under federal law. But the attorneys in this landmark civil case against neo-Nazis won a verdict Tuesday that allowed them to declare victory. Jurors found 24 far-right individuals and organizations had broken Virginia civil conspiracy laws, and had assaulted and…
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News Meet the Jewish seminary chair suing Nazis in Charlottesville
Alan Levine was schmoozing with friends at the Conservative Synagogue of the Hamptons in the summer of 2017, two weeks after the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, when he first heard of a plan to sue the far-right organizers. Robbie Kaplan, the celebrity litigator and a longtime friend, announced that she wanted to…
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News Israel, Jewish groups invoked as white supremacy expert clashes with defense in Unite the Right trial
A professor who once embedded with white supremacists testified Thursday that violence was central to the ideology held by organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally that left one counterproster dead and dozens injured in Charlottesville. Peter Simi, who teaches sociology at Chapman University in Southern California, told jurors that the white supremacist movement…
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