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Aaron Mostofsky, right, was one of the rioters who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Screenshot from D.C. Police)

Politics

Orthodox rioter was not a left-wing agitator, despite claims on Twitter

Right-wing figures on Twitter, including Donald Trump Jr., are promoting the idea that Aaron Mostofsky, the Orthodox Jewish man who joined the Capitol mob…
By Shira Hanau, JTA Jan 15, 2021
Protesters advocating the overturn of the 2020 presidential election results gather at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Tasos Katopodis-Getty Images)

Bay Area

Bay Area orgs urge Congress to protect ‘targeted Americans’

Jewish organizations, leaders and lawmakers from the Bay Area have signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect “targeted Americans” after the…
By Gabriel Greschler Jan 15, 2021
Demonstrators protest outside Labour headquarters in London after its leader, Jeremy Corbyn, refused to adopt fully the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism in the party's code of conduct, Sept. 4, 2018. (Photo/JTA-Daniel Leal-Olivas-AFP via Getty Images)

World

Why people are fighting over a definition of antisemitism, explained

When is it antisemitic to criticize Israel? Antisemitism signifies hatred of Jews and the ways that hatred is perpetuated through age-old conspiracy…
By Ben Sales, JTA Jan 15, 2021
Iranian capital Tehran seen at night. (Photo/Wikimedia Commons)

Israel

Fake journalists, possibly Iranian, spread disinformation online

Three fake journalists who seeded dozens of anti-Israel and anti-American stories on social media may have been part of an Iranian disinformation plot, a…
By Ron Kampeas, JTA Jan 14, 2021
A flag reading “when tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty” and bearing the logo of the Three Percenters on display amid the Washington rioting, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Tasos Katopodis-Getty Images)

California

Q&A: ADL sent a warning days before the Capitol riot

Joanna Mendelson is the Los Angeles-based associate director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, which monitors extremist activity, hate…
By Maya Mirsky Jan 14, 2021
Two women, one wearing a tallit, blow the shofar amid the Capitol rioting, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo/Lloyd Wolf)

U.S.

Q&A: A Jewish photographer who captured the Capitol mob

When Lloyd Wolf heard the long blast from a shofar at the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal protest, the photographer was determined to find the source. He found two…
By Shira Feder, JTA Jan 14, 2021
The new Holocaust Museum of Porto, Portugal, is set to open Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Jewish Community of Porto)

World

Shadows of the Inquisition at Portugal's first Holocaust museum

Portugal is set to open its first Holocaust museum, built in the northern city of Porto by members of a Jewish community that was founded by descendants…
By Cnaan Liphshiz, JTA Jan 13, 2021
The 5 Towns Jewish Times, which serves the Orthodox population of Nassau County, New York, received criticism when it featured on its front page a photo of one of its columnists at the Capitol on Jan. 6. (Screenshot)

U.S.

Conflict over Capitol mob coverage roils Orthodox Jewish news media

On Jan. 7, one day after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, the 5 Towns Jewish Times, a weekly newspaper catering to the large Orthodox community in…
By Shira Hanau, JTA Jan 13, 2021
Munich during the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, in which Hitler and the early Nazi party attempted to overthrow the Weimar government. (Photo/Wikimedia-Bundesarchive CC BY-SA 3.0)

Bay Area

Lessons from Weimar Germany

Unlike scores of op-ed writers and political pundits four years ago, UC Berkeley Jewish history professor John Efron resisted early comparisons between…
By Gabe Stutman Jan 13, 2021
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