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Members of the National Guard walk past the Dome of the Capitol Building on Capitol Hill in Washington Jan. 14, 2021. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
JTA The alert, tweeted by a college student, was vague: A man in a MAGA hat near West Virginia University was apparently asking for the locations of local synagogues and mosques.
On Thursday, a day after the tweet made the rounds of campus social media accounts, police didn’t know much more. A spokesman for the city of Morgantown, where the university is located, confirmed on Thursday that law enforcement was investigating the matter, but had no idea who the man in question was or even definitive confirmation that the interaction took place.
The husband of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, Douglas Emhoff, will soon use the newly-created Twitter handle @SecondGentleman. President-elect Biden encouraged people to follow the account Friday, when he also announced that he would take over the @POTUS handle.
sadams@newsandsentinel.com Vice President Mike Pence spoke at a memorial service Friday for the late Gen. Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier, in Charleston. The service was the first public event for the vice president since last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol by pro-Trump insurrectionists. (Photo Provided) West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, right, presents Victoria Yeager, the wife of the late Air Force Brig. Gen. Chuck Yeager, the state flag during a memorial service for him Friday in Charleston. (Photo Provided) Vice President Mike Pence arrives at Yeager Airport in Charleston Friday for a memorial service for Gen. Chuck Yeager. He was greeted by Gov. Jim Justice, Brig. Gen. William E. Crane, Command Sgt. Maj. Harold K. Williams, retired Brig. Gen. Charles Moss Duke Jr. and his wife Dottie. (Photo Provided)
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Illustrative: Arlington National Cemetery, February 6, 1968, including Rabbi Abraham Heschel, and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (AP Photo/Harvey Georges)
In a letter to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. following the march from Selma to Montgomery in March 1965, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel z”l wrote: “ Even without words our march was worship. I felt like my legs were praying.” Three years later, in March 1968, Rabbi Heschel introduced Dr. King at the annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly with these words: “Where in America today, do we hear a voice like the voice of the prophets of Israel? Martin Luther King is a sign that God has not forsaken the United St