A man who entered the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday wearing a now-infamous “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt has been identified by CNN reporters as Robert Keith Packer of Virginia. The cable network said that it had several sources who identified the man, whose picture circulated widely in the aftermath of the riot. An anonymous Virginia resident told…
We’re an Orthodox Jew and evangelical Christian. And while we were devastated and infuriated by Wednesday’s attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters, we weren’t surprised. We first met in Ohio in 2019, after conversing on Twitter. Immediately, we were struck by how similar our experiences of the last few years had been. We had…
If I told you 50 or even five years ago that Georgia’s two Senate seats would be held by a Jew and a Black man, you might have thought I was pitching a science fiction novel. And if I would have told you at the start of last week that the President would incite a…
After Wednesday’s disgraceful assault on Capitol Hill, it is clear that there must be severe consequences for those who enabled and encouraged President Donald Trump’s big lie that the 2020 presidential election, which President-elect Joe Biden won, was stolen. Certainly, those who incited and participated in the insurrection must be prosecuted. But ensuring legal accountability…
On November 9th 1938, Nazi paramilitary and civilian groups carried out mass acts of violence against synagogues, Jewish-owned businesses, and Jewish homes. The broken glass found on the streets the next day would define this moment as “Kristallnacht,” the night of broken glass. A short time after Kristallnacht, my grandfather Israel Kohn and other Jewish…
There are two things that you should know about Grandma and Grandpa. One: Grandma and Grandpa are notorious pack rats. I think they have kept every program and every thank-you letter. I am enormously grateful for that. Two: Grandma and Grandpa are often right on time. I am also enormously grateful for that. Before and…
“It’s really tough for historians to assert a negative,” Eric Rauchway said. But, he added, there was “absolutely no precedent” for Wednesday’s armed insurrection by supporters of President Trump at the U.S. Capitol. Rauchway, a 20th century American political historian at the University of California at Davis, was one of five historians I spoke with…
Wednesday started like any other day in the life of a parent of young children in the era of COVID. There was breakfast, and reading, and drawing Totoros. There was changing diapers and playing outside, and putting the toddler down for a nap. There was screen time for my 5-year-old and there was a fight…
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