(JTA) — A Florida middle school teacher who hosted a white supremacist podcast and shared anti-Semitic and Islamophobic content on social media has resigned. Dayanna Volitich, a teacher at Crystal River Middle School, in the western part of the state, was removed from her classroom early last month when the Citrus County School District began investigating…
More than a million Americans marched against gun violence across the country Saturday – with approximately 800,000 in Washington, D.C. alone – but the few thousand marchers here had the honor of shouting in earshot of President Trump as he seeks his usual weekend pleasures far away from life in the capital. If Trump thought…
The FBI raided a home associated with a white supremacist who had claimed that the shooter behind last month’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida trained with his group before saying that his previous statement was a lie. Jordan Jereb was handcuffed and led away from his mother’s home in Tallahassee while federal, state and local…
(JTA) — Jared Moskowitz is a member of Florida’s House of Representatives. After the shooting last month at a high school in Parkland, in Moskowitz’s district, that left 17 dead, the Jewish Democrat led efforts to pass gun reform in his state. The compromise bill raises the minimum age to purchase a gun from 18…
This article originally appeared on NFTY’s blog. I hope you saw the news stories about buses of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, making their way to Florida’s Capital to plead with their legislators about preventing gun violence. For the past 24 hours, the Parkland Reform Jewish community made me one…
(JTA) — The college-aged kids of a Jewish congressman from Florida are raising money to end gun violence by selling hamantaschen. Gabby, Serena and Cole Deutch launched the Bake Action Against Gun Violence initiative on Sunday. Their father is Rep. Ted Deutch, a Florida Democrat who represents the district where 17 people were killed last week in…
Booing, cheers and tears of outrage filled CNN’s broadcast of a town hall meeting to discuss gun reform following last week’s deadly shooting — and the most poignant moments came from Jewish students and parents. One of the most powerful applause lines was delivered by 17-year-old Cameron Kasky. Close to 10 p.m., Kasky, a Jewish…
The father of a Jewish teenage victim of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week was among the voices to criticize Florida Senator Marco Rubio for his statements about guns and gun reform during a CNN broadcast Wednesday evening. Fred Guttenberg’s daughter, Jaime Guttenberg, was shot in the back…
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