The Jewish mayor of Charlottesville, Virginia blamed President Trump for stoking the violence that has erupted at a white supremacist rally in the Virginia college town. “I’m not going to make any bones about it,” Mayor Michael Signer said. “I place the blame for a lot of what you’re seeing in America today right at…
Richard Spencer, a leader of the “alt-right” white nationalist movement, is an intractable presence on social media. He’s also seemingly intractable from his adopted home base of Alexandria, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. While activists have tried to push him out of his townhouse in Alexandria’s picturesque Old Town neighborhood, his landlord and City…
Around 1,000 people showed up to protest a Ku Klux Klan rally at a public park in Charlottesville, Va. on Saturday that only drew around 50 white nationalists. The rally was mostly peaceful, with local and state police maintaining separation between the two groups — which upset some anti-KKK protesters, who chanted “Cops and the…
The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to rally in Charlottesville, Virginia this on Saturday to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a city park. The city approved the rally in Justice Park on free speech grounds. But Mayor Michael Signer encouraged most people to…
Hannah Risheq won’t be the first Jewish American in politics, nor is she the first Muslim American running for office. But the 25-year-old Virginian now seeking a seat on the State House Of Delegates is likely the first to run as a Muslim-Jewish candidate. “Most people won’t believe me, but I identify as Muslim and…
(JTA) — Police in Fairfax, Va. have arrested and charged a suspect for spray-painting anti-Semitic graffiti on the city’s Jewish Community Center and a nearby church. On Wednesday, police arrested Dylan M. Mahone, 20, at his home, based on surveillance video of the incidents, which occurred Tuesday, according to a statement by the Fairfax County Police…
(JTA) — Swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti were daubed on a Jewish center and a nearby church in suburban Washington, D.C. After the vandalism was discovered Tuesday, the Fairfax Country Police opened an investigation into the incidents at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia and the Little River United Church of Christ in Annandale, Virginia….
A friend from Georgia once joked to me, “Everyone down here celebrates Christmas, even if you don’t celebrate Christmas.” The meaning of a Christmas tree in a Jewish home is different in a rural Southern town than it is in a Northern industrialized city. The story of Jewish assimilation and acceptance in the South has…
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