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351 shares Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, center, and Lauren Boebert, left, are seen during a group photo with freshmen members of the House Republican Conference in Washington, DC, January 4, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images/ via JTA/ SUE) JTA About a year after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, a white supremacist in western Colorado plotted to attack another Jewish congregation. The FBI arrested the white supremacist in November 2019 and his plans never came to fruition. He pleaded guilty to the charges against him in October. One month after that guilty plea, the president of the Colorado synagogue voted for a congressional candidate whose policies he believed would help protect the local Jewish community: Lauren Boebert, the freshman Republican representative. ....
(JTA) — About a year after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, a white supremacist in western Colorado plotted to attack another Jewish congregation. ....
(JTA) About a year after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, a white supremacist in western Colorado plotted to attack another Jewish congregation. The ....
Disturbed, exhausted, frightened, frustrated, hurt these are only a few words members of the Rome, Georgia, synagogue Rodeph Sholom have used to describe their reactions to Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Within the last week, Greene, a believer in the QAnon conspiracy theory, was revealed to have publicly called for the execution of top Democratic Congressional leaders, harassed David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, and accused the fictional “Rothschild Inc.” of causing massive California wildfires with a space laser. After the story broke, many were quick to laugh at Greene’s beliefs. Saturday Night Live parodied Greene in their cold open. Social media flooded with jokes and memes. The New Yorker satirized her. The Forward’s PJ Grisar outlined the pros and cons of laughing at Greene, ultimately concluding that “poking fun at these conspiracy theories or challenging them with facts is actually imperative.” ....