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The call came a year after photos of Jewish children dressed in blackface during Purim drew widespread condemnation.

Extremist groups back nonsense conspiracy theories, such as accusing Jews of creating the virus to profit from the vaccine, or comparing anti-COVID restrictions to the Holocaust

Extremist groups back nonsense conspiracy theories, such as accusing Jews of creating the virus to profit from the vaccine, or comparing anti-COVID restrictions to the Holocaust

The US continues to transfix the world with its gun violence epidemic   As an Israeli, used to a young and dynamic political system, I’m sometimes at a disadvantage debating politics with Americans. Israel’s basic laws — its equivalent of the Constitution — are changed every other day. Alternative prime minister? Direct elections? Why not? We’ll change a basic law or two. In America, where the Constitution is a quasi-sacred document, things are not so simple. So if 200 years ago so...

It’s inauguration day, the day on which we enact the greatest ritual of American democracy: the transfer of power. Between the restrictions necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic and the substantially heightened security imposed following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration will be like none other before it. His predecessor, President Donald Trump, will not be in attendance, another break from the norm. And yet the core routines will persist, including the ne...

Jewish Ledger The Capitol under attack By Shira Hanau (JTA) – Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the U.S. capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday – but not because he didn’t want to be. Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down to D.C. to join mass protests of the election results Wednesday, Jan. 6. He had left the city before the protest turned into an insurrection that drove members of Congress and the...

1,175 shares Security forces respond with tear gas after US President Donald Trumps supporters breached the US Capitol security in Washington DC on January 6, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) JTA — Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the US Capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday — but not because he didn’t want to be. Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down to Washington, DC, to join mass protests...

Orthodox Jewish Trump supporters decry violence but not the movement that fueled the mob January 7, 2021 10:12 am Security forces respond with tear gas after the US President Donald Trumps supporters breached the US Capitol security in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Advertisement (JTA) — Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the U.S. capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday — but n...

Rabbis closed up shuls But we’re all in this gale Voting done by mail We’re all Keynesians for now Apply that know-how Isn’t up in Canada Einat Wilf Einat Wilf, author and former member of Knesset: As a mother of three children still in their first school years, who previously assumed she was tethered to their school schedules for the next decade of their lives, COVID-19 has liberated me from any sense of commitment to their school programs or schedules. Through the lockdowns, I have lear...

The pandemic is making visible how important religious liberty is to Orthodox Jews in America   Orthodox Jewish men exit a yeshiva in Brooklyns Borough Park, Sept. 29, 2020. (JTA) - In the more than 30 years that Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel has worked at Agudath Israel, an umbrella organization and advocacy group representing haredi Orthodox Jews, he cant remember a single year where as much of the groups work took place in court. There was the lawsuit challenging New York State for applying di...