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Fast Forward Senators Jon Ossoff and Ted Cruz team up to investigate old lynchings
In an unlikely pairing, Jon Ossoff, the Jewish Democratic senator from Georgia, introduced bipartisan legislation with Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas to investigate unsolved racially-motivated murders from the Civil Rights era. Building on a 2018 law, the legislation would extend the term of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board to 2027 and…
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Breaking News How Lynching Memorial Learned From Holocaust Commemoration
(JTA) — When Bryan Stevenson set out to build a memorial to the thousands of black people lynched in the United States, he thought about Germany and Poland. Those countries, where millions of Jews died at the hands of the Nazis, have made sure to preserve the memories of the victims — and the places…
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News The Untold Story of Leo Frank’s Tumultuous New York Burial
It’s a simple gravestone, a small, ground-level marker identical to the four stones beside it. Nothing about the inscription, “Semper Idem” —“ Always the same” — hints at the significance of this 31-year-old man’s untimely death. But here, at the edge of Mount Carmel Cemetery, in New York City, 100 feet from traffic streaming by…
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News Untold Story of the First Jewish Lynching in America
Late one summer’s night in Tennessee, in 1868, Samuel Bierfield sat in the back of a dry goods store with his black clerk Lawrence Bowman and another black man, Henry Morton. Fists pounded on the back door. A voice demanded that Bierfield open up. Bierfield shouted for the visitors to go around the front, unless…
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Breaking News Arab-Israeli Man Indicted For Attempted Lynching of Jewish Motorist
An Arab-Israeli man was indicted for the attempted lynching of a Jewish man who drove past the village of Taibe. Muhammed Haj-Yihyeh, 21, was indicted Thursday on charges of aggravated assault, vandalism, and mayhem for the Nov. 9 incident in which the Jewish driver attempted to avoid burning tires on a major highway during Arab…
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Breaking News Palestinian Bus Driver Found Hanged — Autopsy Says Suicide
A Palestinian bus driver was found hanged in his vehicle on Monday, an incident that led to stone-throwing protests by Palestinians suspecting foul play but which Israeli police, citing autopsy results, termed a suicide. Youssef al-Ramouni, 32, was found dead at the start of the route he was supposed to have driven late on Sunday,…
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News Leo Frank Case Stirs Debate 100 Years After Jewish Lynch Victim’s Conviction
A century ago, Cobb County, Ga., was a sleepy farming community outside Atlanta, home to about 25,000 people. Now the county is an affluent suburb with a population of 700,000, including a booming Jewish community of about 8,000 families served by four synagogues, two restaurants doling out bagels and deli food, and a Kroger supermarket…
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