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Max Schachter, father of Alex Schachter, who was killed during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, and now is part of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission speaks during their meeting at the BB&T Center on June 7, 2018 in Sunrise, Florida. The school safety commission was created after the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in an effort to address several topics in order to prevent future school shootings. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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… Virtual Festival Will Have It All, Including Dr. Seuss in Yiddish, from February 25-28, 2021
SOUTH FLORIDA – The holiday of Purim has often been called “the Jewish Carnavale,” with the joys of song, laughter and drama folded into one, like tangy, fruit-filled
hamantashen. That’s just the recipe for a Yiddishe Taam that the Yiddishkayt Initiative (“YI Love Jewish”) will be serving up at its first annual International VIRTUAL YI Love Yiddishfest – Purim Edition, scheduled on-line from February 25-28.
Virtual visitors of all ages will be able to step right up for a wide range of FREE performances, concerts, readings and interviews featuring major award-winning American and International entertainers as celebrants worldwide recount the saving of the Jews from a threatened massacre during the Persian Empire in the Fifth Century BC. The celebration continues with the YI Love YiddishFest 2020 – Purim Edition, which
A legislative package, known as Police Free Schools Act, seeks to restructure disciplinary measures in public schools across Maryland. The bill is designed to prohibit public school districts from contracting with local law enforcement agencies to station police officers, also known as school resource officers.
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When a child is arrested by a police officer stationed in a Baltimore City public school, they are handcuffed, placed in cages, photographed and fingerprinted even kids as young as seven-years-old, according to Jenny Egan, a Baltimore City juvenile public defender.
February 3, 2021 8:22 a.m.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) met with QAnon-promoting Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Tuesday night, finally relenting to growing pressure for GOP leadership to address the conspiracy-laden mess kicked up by the freshman lawmaker that has quickly spiraled out of control.
Following criticism for a failure to take swift action, McCarthy’s nearly two hour meeting with the conspiracy theorist GOP lawmaker waded through a history of incendiary remarks and falsehoods that have been sharply criticized by Democrats and some Republicans who have pushed for her removal from House committees.
According to Politico, McCarthy offered Greene a handful of options to remedy the future embarrassment of GOP that included denouncing QAnon and delivering a public apology for espousing harmful conspiracy theories and endorsing violence against Democrats. Alternatively, Greene could opt to remove herself from the panel to spare her
Marjorie Taylor Greene Tuesday night, targeting the inexplicable grip she has on the Republican Party.
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Mitch McConnell emerged from his shell yesterday to distance himself from congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene,” Kimmel said in his show’s opening. “The Senate Minority Leader called her out for latching onto quote ‘loony lies and conspiracy theories.’ Even though he didn’t mention her name, he suggested that people like her are a ‘cancer on the party’ that is distracting Republicans from the important work of blocking COVID relief to millions of Americans who need it.”
Tuesday night, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host Jimmy Kimmel (above) joked heartily about Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and the inexplicable grip she has on the Republican Party. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images for Easterseals)