Something you hear a lot from the right when you bring up the President’s penchant for inflammatory language that ignites neo-Nazis is that the president can’t possibly be anti-Semitic because he has a Jewish daughter. It’s a line we have heard uttered by almost every member of the Trump administration at one time or another,…
The Pittsburgh Penguins will wear “stronger than hate” patches on their jerseys during their Tuesday night game, in honor of the 11 people killed over the weekend in a mass shooting at a synagogue in their city, the National Hockey League reported. The patch will feature the hockey team’s modified logo, which pairs mascot Penguin…
After Pittsburgh, with 11 Jews dead, the recriminations began swiftly. The moment should have been about community and togetherness. Instead it became about finding someone to blame for anti-Semitism. The finger was pointed at President Donald Trump. The progressive group Bend the Arc issued a statement telling Trump he’s “not welcome in Pittsburgh.” The story…
This week, you will hear many voices telling you not to “politicize” the shootings in Pittsburgh. “I will not politicize the murder of 11 Jews,” celebrity rabbi Shmuley Boteach wrote, before bizarrely connecting Pittsburgh to the Iran deal. “Have a moment of silence, light a candle,” Shmuel Rosner suggested, and don’t “treat this butchery of…
The man accused of killing 11 people at prayer in a Pittsburgh synagogue was cared for by Jewish medical staff, AP reported. Robert Bowers was shouting, “Kill the Jews!” during the massacre, said Jeffery Cohen, president of Allegheny General Hospital, which treated the suspect. Cohen told WTAE-TV on Monday that the first people to tend…
Holocaust survivor Judah Samet said he doesn’t believe President Trump’s harsh rhetoric bears the blame of the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, where 11 people were killed at prayer, the Washington Post reported. Samet narrowly avoided the shooting — he was four minutes late to morning services at the Tree of Life Congregation on…
This was originally in the print edition of October 24, 1958, and was posted online in October 2018. October, close to the Jewish New Year, seems to be peak season for American anti-Semitic violence. Sixty years ago, in October 1958, America’s first successful satellite launch was followed swiftly on the front page of the Yiddish…
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. A good friend of mine insists on drawing a straight line between Robert Bowers, the alleged killer of eleven Jews at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue, and President Donald Trump’s “hateful” rhetoric on the campaign trail. My friend didn’t buy my argument that Barack Obama was president…
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