Neo-Nazi group linked to fatal Charlottesville car crash spread hate fliers in Houston – Chron.com
admin | August 14, 2017
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ADL Calls on President Trump to Denounce White Supremacy … – NBC 29 News
richards | August 14, 2017
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is calling for president Trump to name the hate on display in Charlottesville during the Unite the Right rally. They are also requesting that he devise an action plan to confront white supremacy issues in our country
Christian Zionism – Wikipedia
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For Christians who belong to Zionist denominations in southern Africa, see Zionist Churches. Christian Zionism is a belief among some Christians that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land, and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, is in accordance with Biblical prophecy. The term began to be used in the mid-20th century, superseding Christian Restorationism.[1][2] Traditional Catholic thought did not consider Zionism in any form.[3]Christian advocacy of the restoration of the Jews arose following the Protestant Reformation.
Is Zionism creepy? The question at the heart of a social-media controversy deserves an answer – Salon
admin | August 13, 2017
Is Zionism creepy? It is a strange question, prompted by the recent controversy surrounding Linda Sarsour, the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York.In early July, Sarsour addressed the annual meeting of the Islamic Society of North America, during which she is alleged to have advocated violentjihad.She did not, but her many online detractors nevertheless used the speech to reiterate their claims that Sarsour sympathizes with terrorists, is an anti-Semite, and is hostile to Israel.
According to Zioness organizer Amanda Berman, who had flown in from New York specifically to attend Chicago … – Tablet Magazine
simmons | August 13, 2017
Traditionally, the villains of the Chicago Slutwalk have been the citys police officers, who organizers accuse of being part of the institutional rape culture and the misogyny driving it. This year, however, the march had a different focus: Israel and Palestine. Which, coming just a few months after the expulsion of three Jewish women from the Chicago Dyke Marchan event which sparked an international backlash and united left and right in condemnations of anti-Semitismshouldnt come as much of a surprise.
Zionist Activists Shunned At SlutWalk Chicago – Forward
richards | August 13, 2017
Getty A marcher at the Chicago Slutwalk in 2013. (JTA) About a dozen activists from the Zioness initiative attempted to participate in SlutWalk Chicago. The group, which calls itself progressive and Zionist, had announced prior to Saturdays demonstration that they would join in the annual demonstration against sexual violence to promote the idea that Zionism and liberal values are compatible
Young Jews find spirituality outside the synagogue – The Jerusalem Post
richards | August 13, 2017
NEW YORK Michelle Reyf isnt really a synagogue-goer. Until recently, the 28-year-old, who works for a Jewish nonprofit, was perfectly happy to get her spiritual fulfillment at Buddhist prayer services and meditation retreats. Synagogue did not appeal to her for a variety of reasons she found the crowd to be older and the atmosphere to be impersonal.
Newport congregation seeks rehearing in fight over Touro … – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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A view inside the Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island. (Wikimedia Commons) (JTA) The congregation that worships in Americas oldest synagogue building will ask for a rehearing of the case that gave control of its pricey artifacts to the buildings historic trustees. The U.S.
‘Menashe’ offers a rare look at the lives and laws of Hasidic Jews – Washington Post
richards | August 13, 2017
People love to be transported somewhere else, says Joshua Z Weinstein, director and co-writer of Menashe. Its exciting to be transported to somewhere new thats just around the corner. For his first feature film, Weinsteins somewhere else is an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic community in Brooklyn
Alleged driver of car that plowed into Charlottesville crowd was a Nazi sympathizer, former teacher says – Washington Post
richards | August 13, 2017
(Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post) CHARLOTTESVILLE A man accused of plowing a car into a crowd of protesters here killing one person and leaving 19injured long sympathized with Nazi views and had stood with a group of white supremacists hours before Saturdays bloody crash. The alleged driver, James Alex Fields Jr., 20, of Ohio, had espoused extremist ideals at least since high school, according to Derek Weimer, a history teacher
