op/ed: American president just asked us to be fair to white supremacists
By Andrew Silow-Carroll NEW YORK (JTA) — There was a moment in his “neo-Nazi, neo-Shmazi” news conference where you might have found yourself thinking, maybe…
Politics
The Rabbinical Council of America Challenges Charlottesville Moral Equivalency
The Rabbinical Council of America, the leading organization of orthodox rabbis in North America, condemns any suggestion of moral equivalency between the White Supremacists and…
Charlottesville’s Jewish mayor is an expert on demagogues, and now on anti-Semitism
By Ron Kampeas CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (JTA) — Michael Signer, the Jewish mayor of Charlottesville, has one thing in common with the white supremacists who descended…
Trump names KKK, white supremacists, neo-Nazis in condemnation of Charlottesville rally
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Amid a furor over his delay in denouncing a white supremacists’ rally in specific terms, President Donald Trump condemned the “racist violence”…
Hate in Charlottesville: The day the Nazi called me Shlomo
By Ron Kampeas CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (JTA) — The white supremacists, for all their vaunted purpose, appeared to be disoriented. Some 500 had gathered at a…