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Fast Forward Jewish GOP Lawmaker Walks Back Support For Trump On Charlottesville — A Bit
Congressman Lee Zeldin is the latest in a growing contingent of Jewish Republican political figures walking back their support for Trump. On CNN Friday morning Zeldin issued a more full-throated disagreement with the equivalence Trump drew on Tuesday between white supremacists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia. Zeldin’s first statement on the matter backed Trump’s take….
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Fast Forward Germans See Echoes Of Nazi Past In Trump And Charlottesville
For the past decade, the pupils of the Manfred von Ardenne school in Berlin have been visiting a local cemetery to tend the graves of victims of the Nazis. By honoring those who died doing forced labor for Adolf Hitler’s regime and learning their stories, pupils gain a clearer, more visceral understanding of their country’s…
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Fast Forward Bannon: Trump’s Charlottesville Remarks A Defeat For ‘Globalists’
While some of the president’s closest advisers were disgusted with his comments this week on Charlottesville, chief strategist Steve Bannon was thrilled, according to friends and associates who spoke to him afterward. “Steve was proud of how [Trump] stood up to the braying mob of reporters,” one person who spoke to Bannon told the Axios…
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Fast Forward Fox News Scion James Murdoch Gives $1M To ADL After Charlottesville
James Murdoch, the son and heir apparent of News Corp magnate Rupert Murdoch, pledged on Thursday to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League in an impassioned letter in which he condemned President Trump’s actions after the weekend violence in Charlottesville. “I’m writing to you in a personal capacity, as a concerned citizen and a…
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Fast Forward Charlottesville Insists It Did Provide Police Protection To Synagogue
(JTA) — Local officials said police provided protection to a synagogue during a far-right gathering last weekend in Charlottesville, Va., refuting a claim by a Jewish community leader that the it had refused to do so. On Friday, Charlottesville City Manager Maurice Jones said it “is simply not the case that Congregation Beth Israel was left…
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Opinion Who Did and Didn’t Sign Congress’s Jewish Rebuke of Trump? Why on Elvis’s Yahrzeit?
Eighteen of the 22 Jewish members of the House of Representatives signed a letter to the president, released on Thursday, decrying his obtuse and outrageous comments following the Charlottesville violence and urging him “to stand with us on the right side of history.” It was initiated by Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan, who is the…
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News Charlottesville Happened On Shabbat. Here’s What The Rabbis Did That Day.
In the days leading up to last Saturday’s Unite the Right rally, the Jews of Charlottesville sensed that the march might put worshippers gathered to celebrate the Jewish Sabbath in danger. They asked the police to provide them with an officer during morning services and were refused, so they hired an armed security guard. They…
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Opinion When Silence on Evil Is Evil: A GOP Leader Speaks
The most powerful statement I have heard so far on Trump’s Charlottesville Nazi fiasco came from Republican consultant Steve Schmidt, the senior strategist on John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, during an MSNBC panel discussion on Wednesday evening, August 16. It should be noted that he’s a regular commentator on MSNBC and frequently on “Real Time…
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