Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano once likened gun control to Nazi policies before the Holocaust
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Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Jewish attorney general has set his office’s sights on Washington,D.C. rioters, he announced in a recent tweet. My office knows the difference between protest and violence. If you organized a plan to carry out yesterday’s illegal attack on our country from Pennsylvania, and we have evidence you participated, we will use every…
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Fast Forward Pennsylvania’s Jewish attorney general is getting into it with Trump on Twitter
On election day, Pennsylvania is shaping up to be a hotly-contested battleground, and a recent Supreme Court ruling has only made things more complicated in the swing state. However, Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s attorney general who keeps kosher and was educated in Jewish day schools, is mixing it up with President Trump on Twitter. Last week,…
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News Local Georgia race draws Philadelphia cops, Soros and a whiff of antisemitism
George Soros, the billionaire Jewish philanthropist, is back in campaign news again — as if he ever left. This time he has popped up in a controversial race in coastal Georgia, but the Philadelphia-based group behind the ads says it is targeting at least 40 candidates nationwide. In Georgia, Democratic lawyer Shalena Cook Jones is…
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News I’m the archivist of the Tree of Life shooting. This is how I ‘process’ it.
The attack on October 27, 2018, lasted 83 minutes from the moment the gunman entered the synagogue until the moment the police apprehended him. In the 18 months since that Saturday morning, I have collected 189 boxes of things documenting the impact of those 83 minutes on the Jewish population of Western Pennsylvania. “Things” in…
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News Philadelphia NAACP head apologizes for anti-Semitic image, not his mosque’s anti-Semitic Facebook page
The Philadelphia president of the NACCP will not be resigning—at least for now. Despite calls for the resignation of Rodney Muhammad for posting an anti-Semitic meme on Facebook, the national NAACP said it has decided with him to “meet with community leaders and faith leaders to open a dialogue” and to also launch “national conversations…
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Fast Forward Pennsylvania man charged with online threats against Jews, other minorities
(JTA) — Federal charges have been levied against a Pennsylvania man for posting online threats against Jews and other minorities. Corbin Kauffman, 31, posted a threatening image on a social media website on March 13, 2019, that featured a digitally created image of his arm and hand aiming an AR-15 rifle at praying Jewish men…
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