admin | August 18, 2017
CHARLOTTESVILLE After using his blog and Wes Bellamys Twitter history to make a name for himself last fall, those platforms are now being used against Jason Kessler, the pro-white activist who organized the Unite the Right rally that turned deadly on Saturday. Articles and conspiracy theories about Kesslers past as a supporter of President Barack Obama and wannabe liberal activist who participated in the Occupy movement abound now as President Donald Trump continues facing backlash for his response to the rally that resulted in one woman, as well as two state police officers in a separate incident, dying.
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admin | August 18, 2017
Like a lot of Reagan-era children, I was schlepped to a succession of suburban postwar temples. They all had magnificent cantors, lively services and prosaic 1960s and 70s architecture, which to my youthful eyes paled in grandeur next to my friends grand churches.
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simmons | August 18, 2017
FBI agents previously raided the UTA Central Yeshiva at 76 Rutledge St.
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admin | August 18, 2017
Anti-Semitism is again back in the news. Some of the posters at the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist demonstrations this past weekend featured a man taking a hammer to a Star of David the biggest threat, the thing that needs to be destroyed
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richards | August 18, 2017
October 7, 1944 In Cooperation with Yeshiva University Museum. This exhibition is the American attempt to respond to four women, and the revolt in Auschwitz that they helped make possible.
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richards | August 18, 2017
(JTA) A newly discovered blueprint of the destroyed great synagogue in Vilnius led ateam of archaeologists to unearth the remains of two ritual baths that were used by congregants of one of Europes largest and most prominent Jewish communities before its annihilation. The synagogue, which was at the heart of the large Jewish community in Vilnius for hundreds of years, was destroyed in the Holocaust.
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richards | August 18, 2017
Mr. Corker, a sober voice on foreign policy and a frequent ally of the Trump administration, bluntly questioned the presidents ability to perform the duties of his office.
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simmons | August 18, 2017
James Murdoch, the CEO of Twenty-FirstCentury Fox (FOXA), circulated an email which saidthat in the wake of the recentevents in Charlottesville, Va., he would be making a $1 million donation to the Anti-Defamation League. [W]hat we watched this last week in Charlottesville and the reaction to it by the President of the United States concern all of us as Americans and free people, Murdoch said in a note seen by Yahoo Finance. On August 11 and 12, protestors including white supremacists and neo-Nazis descended on Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E.
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richards | August 18, 2017
Photo James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox, in April in New York. Credit Kevin Hagen for The New York Times BRIDGEWATER, N.J. James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox and the son of a frequent ally of President Trumps, condemned the presidents performance after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and pledged to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League.
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simmons | August 18, 2017
The U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Anti-Defamation League announced a partnership to combat hate in wake of the violent protests in Virginia last weekend
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