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Fast Forward Milo Yiannopoulos Protester Shot Outside Seattle Event
Milo Yiannopoulos brags about causing mischief, but he might have gotten more than he bargained for last Friday night, when a protester at one of his events got shot outside the venue. The ‘alt-right’ fellow traveler and Breitbart tech editor was speaking at the University of Washington in Seattle, when an anti-fascist demonstrator Josh Dukes…
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Opinion Inauguration Weekend: Our Scribe Community On President Trump
On Friday January 20th, Donald J. Trump became the 45th president of the United States. Many Scribe contributors attended events around the world in celebration of (and marches in protest against) Donald J. Trump’s inauguration. Others opined on their hopes and dreams for the incoming administration. Read their provocative stories and reflections below: Opinions and…
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Community In Chicago, 250,000 March Against Trump
At 5:00 p.m. on Inauguration Day, I found myself in downtown Chicago, peering across the river at Trump Tower, which was obscured in an eerie fog. In my hands I clutched a hastily-made sign, reading “This Jew Stands Against Fascism” in bold script on one side, and the Yiddish version of the Jewish Bund of…
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Opinion 10 Steps For the American Jewish Community To Pursue Justice in the Trump Era
We were made for this. The Jewish people and Jewish tradition itself were designed for survival. We were designed for social transformation. Now, with Donald Trump threatening the norms and institutions of our democratic society, we must come together to resist and respond to any attempt to set us back. We all hope that our…
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Culture On The Eve Of Trump’s Inauguration, This Exhibition Of Protest Photography Is As Fresh As Ever
How exactly should one photograph a political demonstration? There are a few schools of thought, I imagine, and it may be helpful to think of these approaches in similar terms to those used to discuss the various approaches to literary translation – both translators and photographers work across languages in order to best make a work…
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Community Jews Should Be Fighting the Far Left, Not the ‘Alt-Right’
Liberal Journalists have had a tough couple of months. Liberal Jewish journalists? Even tougher. Nothing seemed to work this year. Trump was the worst person ever to run for President, they said. The mainstream media and Hollywood pulled out all the stops. Celebrity videos, polemics by noted thinkers like George Takei and Lena Dunham, CNN…
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Breaking News Crowd Gathers to Protest Hate After Swastikas Left at Beastie Boys Park
— Hundreds gathered for an anti-hate rally at a vandalized Brooklyn park named in memory of the late Beastie Boys singer Adam Yauch. The rally Sunday at the Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn came after the park was defaced with swastikas and the message “Go Trump.” Yauch, known as MCA, died in 2012 at age 47…
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Breaking News Steve Bannon Doesn’t Show at ZOA Dinner Following Protests
NEW YORK — Stephen Bannon, a senior adviser to Donald Trump, did not attend a dinner hosted by the Zionist Organization of America, which had publicized his intention to attend. The ZOA had publicized that Bannon would attend the Sunday evening dinner in New York, which was attended by politicians from Israel and the United States…
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