Auburn University announced on Friday that “alt-right” leader Richard Spencer’s scheduled speech on campus would be cancelled. The Alabama university had previously stated that while they “deplore his views,” the school also “supports the constitutional right to free speech.” But in a notice posted on their website on Friday afternoon, the administration announced that they…
President Trump waded into a tight House race in Georgia on Monday, tweeting an attack against the upstart Democratic candidate, Jon Ossoff. The super Liberal Democrat in the Georgia Congressioal race tomorrow wants to protect criminals, allow illegal immigration and raise taxes! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 17, 2017 The election to replace former…
“Alt-right” leader Richard Spencer, scheduled to speak at Auburn University in Alabama next week, is paying for a venue and security out of his own pocket, The Tuscaloosa News reported Thursday. The university administration said in a statement on Wednesday that while they “strongly deplore his views,” Auburn also “supports the constitutional right to free…
On the morning of Feb. 21, a 46-year-old wife and mother in suburban Atlanta awoke and decided that she could not stay silent amid a surge the recent in anti-Semitic activity, from bomb threats, toppled gravestones and synagogue vandalism to abhorrent speech online and on campus. By the morning of March 30, Lauren Menis –…
A version of this article was originally posted in the Texas Jewish Post It’s that special time of the year again when supermarkets in heavily Jewish neighborhoods advertise their Passover wares, all conveniently stocked under one roof. And inevitably, some cliched tagline along the lines of, “helping you celebrate freedom!” will grace those holiday ads….
David Kustoff, one of two Republican Jews in the House, is pushing a bill to slap heavier penalties and an automatic hate crime designation on those who threaten religious buildings, following March’s spate of bomb threats against Jewish community centers. “Frankly, it wouldn’t matter what my religion is,” Kustoff, a freshman congressman from western Tennessee,…
(JTA) — A former Texas prison inmate who won the right to receive kosher food and have it provided to all observant Jewish inmates in the state dropped his 12-year-old federal lawsuit against the prison system. Max Moussazadeh, 40, was serving a 75-year prison sentence for serving as a lookout during a 1993 murder when he filed…
I’m a 47 year old Jewish guy who was born in South Africa and moved to the US when I was 6. I grew up in a Democratic home. I voted for Bill Clinton twice and interned for liberal icon Senator Harkin before I attended law school back in the early/mid 1990’s. I don’t own…
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