White supremacist propaganda is difficult to combat, but there's hope
Experts who track white supremacist and extremist movements say there is hope on the horizon, with new methods already having an impact.
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Experts who track white supremacist and extremist movements say there is hope on the horizon, with new methods already having an impact.
On today’s episode of The Confluence: Rabbi Jeffrey Myers describes how his congregation is still healing since the attack at the Tree of Life synagogue; Carol Sikov Gross, president of the congregation, explains how an architect with family ties to the Jewish community is helping restore and refurbish the synagogue; the head of the Community Day School, Avi Baran Munro, reflects on student and faculty actions to mourn the attack; and journalist and author Mark Oppenheimer explains why he focused on the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill in his book about how the community came together.
Ami Weintraub (he/they) is a teacher, organizer and writer. They are a Rabbinical student in the Aleph Ordination Program. Ami founded and runs Ratzon: Center for Healing and Resistance and teaches in Hebrew school in Pittsburgh.
Ben Case is an organizer, researcher, and writer. He helped found IfNotNow Pittsburgh and JOLT. Case is a postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Work and Democracy and has a PhD in sociology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Congregants from Tree of Life protest their communal tragedy's exploitation by political figures at a recent summit held in their honor.