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'So many Montanans suffered so many indignities this session that being barred from leading a prayer pales by comparison,' said Montana Rep. and Rabbi Ed Stafman
Sometimes, Christian Seders buy up all the matzo in the few stores that sell it
The kits were created by people whose children are often the only Jews in their class or school
'Helena was one of only four state capitals in the nation without a synagogue or Jewish Center,' said Julie Bir, a Montana Jewish Project board member. 'We’ve just changed that.'
(JTA) — Two fliers described by local media as anti-Semitic were placed in front of homes and on cars in Livingston, Montana. One of the fliers discovered on Wednesday morning in the small southwestern Montana city read “With Jews You Lose,” and shows a declining line graph representing the “value of a $1 federal reserve…
When the 1860s Montana gold rush ended, the Jews of the territory were just getting started. “The thing about gold towns is that they come and go,” said Paul Kingsford, a native Englishman who now lives in Missoula, Mont. “And so they built these wooden buildings downtown, because they knew there was no point —…
The publisher of the most prominent neo-Nazi website in America, who is being sued for urging followers to target a Jewish woman with a “troll storm,” is arguing in federal court that the case should be dismissed because President Trump’s use of similar language was recently found to be legally acceptable, the Montana newspaper the…
Last year, as neo-Nazis threatened to descend on Whitefish, Montana, with an armed march, the town’s police force nailed a mezuzah on a doorframe at their station — a gesture of solidarity with the town’s small Jewish population who had been on the receiving end of online harassment for weeks. Months later, it’s still up…
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