(JTA) — The Florida state attorney upgraded charges against a Miami Beach man who planned to burn down his condo building and “kill all the Jews” who live there to include a hate crime enhancement. Walter Stolper, 72, was charged Thursday with attempted first-degree murder, arson and possession of a destructive device, as well as…
Officials at the Department of Veterans’ Affairs are furious over the involvement of two Mar-a-Lago regulars in the Department of Veterans’ Affairs $16 billion digital transformation, POLITICO reported. Dr. Bruce Moskowitz is a Florida internist. Ike Perlmutter is an Israeli-American businessman and the chairman of Marvel Entertainment. Both have been involved in recent calls with…
All year long, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher Ivy Schamis teaches her students about the Holocaust: about perpetrators, victims and survivors both historical and contemporary. She never imagined she would find herself using those words to describe her own students, her colleagues — even herself. Eight weeks ago, when students had just finished presenting…
(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…
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