Richard Spencer’s white nationalist think tank violated Virginia not-for-profit laws, according to an investigation conducted by state authorities. The story was first reported in the Los Angeles Times. Back in March, Spencer’s think tank, the National Policy Institute, lost its tax-exempt status after failing to file federal tax returns for three years. Following that, the…
(JTA) — A former counselor at a JCC camp in suburban Detroit convicted of sharing pictures of nude boys online overdosed on drugs a day before he was scheduled to enter federal prison. Matthew Kuppe, 22, was taken into federal custody on Friday, a day after he had been scheduled to enter prison and two…
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, the only Jewish governor in the nation, was elected on a platform of clean government and transparency. But he can’t seem to shake critics’ claims that his own handling of campaign funds and donations wasn’t totally above-board. A bipartisan group of six state senators is now trying to push for an…
When I became a Mormon at age 16 in Los Angeles, I didn’t convert from Judaism. It was when I finally made a trip “back east” at age 21 and met my relatives that I fully realized I was Jewish. Although I had spent day and night glued to the radio during the Six Day…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — San Antonio elected Ron Nirenberg, an insurgent progressive and the son of a Jewish father, as mayor. Nirenberg, a councilman, defeated Ivy Taylor, the incumbent mayor, 55-45 percent in voting in the south-central Texas city on Saturday. Taylor had establishment backing and outspent Nirenberg in the race. Nirenberg, 40, celebrated his diverse…
Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff is maintaining a seven-point lead in what has become the most expensive House of Representatives race in American history. Ossoff, a former congressional aide and documentary filmmaker, has 51% of the vote in the red-leaning 6th District in the Atlanta suburbs, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released Friday. His Republican…
(JTA) — Swastikas were spray-painted on the home of a Jewish couple in northeast Colorado. The homeowners were awakened early on Friday at their home in Aurora by police after a neighbor reported the graffiti, according to CBS4. Local police are investigating the incident as a hate crime, according to the news station. Sandy and Howard…
ended from a Colorado middle school for an alleged anti-Semitic incident, even though both the student and the victim are Jewish. A student at Oberon Middle School in Jefferson County, Colorado, tied another student to a soccer goal post and told him to “burn, Jew, burn.” The school district learned about the incident through an anonymous school…
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