Posts Tagged: Trump Charlottesville
CNN Gets It Partially Right About Antisemitism
JNS.org - Can a documentary on a low-rated network broadcast at a time when few were watching make much of a difference? Maybe not. That’s...
What’s Past Is Prologue: A Jewish Reflection on Charlottesville
JNS.org - When Jews confront the present and prepare for the future, we are always mindful of the past. When torch-bearing neo-Nazi white supremacists chant, “Jews will not...
Charlottesville and the New Antisemitism
Like all good people, I was upset by the violence and racism in Charlottesville. But I was surprised to receive a disturbing letter from a...
The Overarching Meaning of America
As recent events have so vividly illustrated, Americans angrily seem to have turned against one another and embraced increasingly contrasting narratives of past and present. To...
What Elie Wiesel Would Have Told Trump
The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel stood up to Ronald Reagan when the 40th president visited the graves of Nazi war criminals in Bitburg, Germany in...
Lessons for Jews From Charlottesville
JNS.org - Today, many Jews are asking if we’re back in the 1920s. To me, the scene outside a Charlottesville synagogue is more like Odessa in 1905. Last...
Trump Encourages Right-Wing Antisemites, but They Also Exist on the Left
JNS.org - We live in a time when -- as the US State Department has noted -- a “rising tide of antisemitism” has swept across the globe. This has partly happened...
White Nationalist Spits Bile Over Ivanka Trump’s Marriage to ‘Jew B*stard’ Jared Kushner
One of the leading speakers at last weekend's far-right rally in Charlottesville offered a valuable insight into neo-Nazi psychology when he launched an extraordinary attack...
Trump’s Charlottesville Response Shows Lack of Moral Compass
President Donald Trump’s moral compass isn’t working. The needle’s spinning wildly, but the leader of the free world just can’t find moral north. The latest example...