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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 vice president into hiding, and in which a woman was killed.  But that afternoon, unaware that his...

1,175 shares Security forces respond with tear gas after US President Donald Trump's 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 of the election results Wednesday. He left the city before the protest turned into an insurrection...

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 not because he didn’t want to be. Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down t...

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 learned both that I can home-school my children and that I can enjoy it. I now consider their schools an...

The pandemic is making visible how important religious liberty is to Orthodox Jews in America   Orthodox Jewish men exit a yeshiva in Brooklyn's 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 can't remember a single year where as much of the group's work took place in court. There was the lawsuit challenging New York State for applying different standards on attendance at houses of worship than at businesses. Agudath Israel filed an ...