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Letters The Forward Misunderstood The RCA’s Response to Charlottesville
We accept criticism when warranted. In the case of Avital Chizik Goldschmidt’s “Why Won’t Orthodox Leaders Condemn Trump’s Ties to White Supremacists?” it is not. In that article Ms. Chizik Goldschmidt writes, “The Rabbinical Council of America mourned “violence and bigotry”, but not our leader’s failure to condemn it.” Even though Ms. Chizik Goldschmidt does…
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Fast Forward Alex Jones Says Jewish Actors Posed As Klansmen In Charlottesville
([JTA](http://www.jta.org ” “JTA”)) — Radio host, conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump supporter Alex Jones was at it again Sunday with a theory that “leftist Jews” may have impersonated Nazis to discredit white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville, Va. Speaking on “The Alex Jones Show” on August 13, Jones recalled his own experience, he said, protesting the…
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News Charlottesville’s Jewish Mayor Becomes Unlikely Hero Of Struggle — And Target
Charlottesville mayor Mike Signer’s first encounter with anti-Semitism was in elementary school. In a speech earlier this year, he recalled hearing his “first hurtful ethnic slur” at the minority-majority public school he attended in Arlington, a wealthy Virginia suburb outside Washington, D.C. But nothing prepared the 44-year-old Democratic mayor of a liberal Virginia college town…
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Breaking News Group Tied To Accused Charlottesville Killer Purged From Internet
Wordpress.com has taken down the website of Vanguard America, the group with whom accused killer James Alex Fields rallied at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The site’s takedown occurred some time between 6p.m. and 6:30p.m. Monday. Clicking on the group’s website now yields the message: “reactionamericacom.wordpress.com is no longer available. This blog…
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Opinion Stop Outing Nazis. Your Rights Depend On Theirs
This week my friend Emily learned an uncomfortable truth about a former law school classmate. It turns out he’s a white nationalist, one who believes that her interacial marriage makes her a race traitor (she’s white and her husband is Asian). This personal reveal came just after the white supremacist rally-turned-riot in Charlottesville this weekend,…
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Fast Forward Charlottesville Marcher Denounced By Entire Family In Hometown Newspaper Op-Ed
The father of one of the white nationalists who marched in Charlottesville, Va. last week has written a letter to his hometown newspaper denouncing his son and saying he was no longer welcome home until he renounced his bigotry. Pearce Tefft of Fargo, N.D. wrote to the local newspaper The Forum after his son, Peter,…
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Opinion Freedom Means Freedom For Everyone — Including Nazis
The white supremacist onslaught in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend was a horrifying, emblematic and possibly historic moment in our contemporary political culture. But among the many important truths it communicates, among the most important, and challenging, is its reminder that the only cultural and political freedom that is truly meaningful is the freedom to be…
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News Charlottesville’s Rabbi: I Saw ‘The Hate Walking By’
Rabbi Tom Gutherz had a harrowing weekend as the senior rabbi at Charlottesville’s Congregation Beth Israel, founded in 1882. Holed up in a church across from Emancipation Park, the site of the infamous white supremacist rally, he said the day’s events were unlike anything he had ever seen. “To see the marching, to hear it,…
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