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Forward 50 2017 Michael Signer
Charlottesville’s Mayor Spoke Out After Hateful Rally A college professor and small-town mayor, Mike Signer never planned to be at the center of a national controversy. But hours after Charlottesville, Virginia, witnessed a deadly attack following hours of neo-Nazi marches, Signer was thrust into the spotlight, faulting the Trump White House for empowering these groups….
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Fast Forward Charlottesville Mayor Backs Legal Fight Against White Nationalist ‘Freelance Armies’
Business leaders, elected officials and residents in Charlottesville, Virginia, are going to court to try to prevent a repeat of the violence at a white nationalist rally that ripped through town this summer. Mike Signer, the Jewish mayor of Charlottesville, said he supported the legal campaign to prevent future white nationalist violence — decrying what…
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Fast Forward Most Charlottesville Protesters Were New To White Supremacy: ADL
For many of the attendees of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlotteville in August, it was their first time associated publicly with white nationalism, according to a new analysis from the ADL’s Center on Extremism. Researchers also found that the attendees were overwhelmingly white men — less than 7% of protesters were women. The…
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Fast Forward Progressive Jews To Stage Protest Of Lee Zeldin
Taking aim at one of only two Jewish Republican members of Congress, Bend The Arc, a progressive Jewish group, is planning to protest outside the office of New York Rep. Lee Zeldin on Monday. “In the spirit of the Jewish High Holidays, a time of awakening, atonement and accountability, activists will urge Rep. Zeldin, one…
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Fast Forward White Nationalist Leader Richard Spencer Marches In Charlottesville Again
(JTA) — White nationalist leader Richard Spencer led a second torchlight march in Charlottesville, Virginia. The march on Saturday included several dozen torch-bearing white nationalists who marched through Emancipation Park to the statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, which the city is working to remove, along with the statues of other Confederate leaders. Spencer…
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Fast Forward GOP Congressman suggests Charlottesville rally was organized By George Soros
ep. Paul Gosar, a Republican from Arizona, uggested the events in Charlottesville may have been 'created by the left'
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Fast Forward Gary Cohn Says $1,000 Tax Cut Can Let Americans ‘Buy A New Car’
In a press conference Thursday promoting President Trump’s tax reform push, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn — a former president of the Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs — seemed to say that a new car costs only $1,000. “If we allow a family to keep another $1,000 of their income, what does that mean?”…
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Life Remembering My Father, Elie Wiesel, On The Eve of Rosh Hashanah
This time of year was a difficult time for my father. Did each September — or more precisely, each month of Elul in the Hebrew calendar – did each one get progressively more difficult for him as he got older? Or did I just get more attuned to his feelings as I got older? Perhaps…
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