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Article 15
An “Obama effect” has “generated a backlash of white supremacy,” which may have contributed to yesterday’s shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern...
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• A fugitive Ku Klux Klan member on America’s 100 most wanted list has been turned in—by his pregnant Jewish girlfriend, with whom he was living in Israel. [JPost] • Parisian gang members convicted of...
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Article 13
They had the wrong guy. It was a case of mistaken identity. That’s what I told the dudes on the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorism Task Force that morning when I was coming home to my strange new abode from a...
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Article 12
Today in Tablet Magazine, Irin Carmon gets to the bottom of that pro-Israel Latin American YouTube video you’ve probably seen. In honor of the Fourth, Marc Grossman tells of the time his little Jewish...
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Article 11
After he was elected president in 1952, Dwight Eisenhower made a famous statement of belief that nicely summarized the mid-century American creed: “Our form of government has no sense unless it is...
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The Video Game-Trained IDF Whiz Kid of Iron Dome Missile Defense
Rabbis vs. rabbits: One have white tufts of hair on their chins; the other have white tufts of hair on their behinds! Happy Pesach and, to our readers of a different bent, happy Easter. • From video...
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Essay: How My Grandmother Stood Up to the Klan in Texas, Armed with An...
My mother worshipped her mother, Yetta Wachstein Hochman, even more than she worshipped me. While that left me as a runner-up, I still liked my grandmother’s visits in the 1940s, when I was a boy in...
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The Jewish Klansman and the Evangelical Times Reporter
Yesterday, the obituary of Times scribe McCandlish Phillips ran with the headline “McCandlish Phillips, Who Exposed a Jewish Klansman, Is Dead at 85.” Phillips’ whole story is fascinating; I can’t...
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Feds Nab Death-Ray Plotter With Aim Set on ‘Enemies of Israel’
Might the Reform Congregation Gates of Heaven in Schenectady, N.Y., have any interest a weapon that could annihilate Israel’s enemies? Such was the pitch to a synagogue staffer in the building one day...
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Government Shutdown Ruins KKK Rally Plans
Last week, a Maryland chapter of the Ku Klux Klan stirred some controversy after it secured a permit to hold a rally at Gettysburg National Military Park. The park, of course, sits on the hallowed...
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Rampant Anti-Semitism at New York Public School Fuels Lawsuit by Jewish Families
A disturbing story in today’s New York Times tells of widespread, nearly institutionalized anti-Semitism at a New York public school. Three Jewish families are suing the Pine Bush Central School...
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Who is Frazier Glenn Miller? A Look At The Kansas Shooting Suspect And Former...
The suspect in yesterday’s shooting at two Jewish institutions in Overland Park, Kansas, in which three people were killed, has been identified as Frazier Glenn Miller, who also goes by the name...
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'Inclusive' Ku Klux Klan Chapter Now Accepting Jews
Google Inbox may still be invite-only, but the Ku Klux Klan is apparently open to anyone these days. A longtime member of the KKK—perhaps the most notorious hate group in American history—has branched...
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Their Flag and Ours: The Confederate Flag Does Not Wave in a Vacuum
The stubborn attachment of traditional Southern whites to the flags, statuary, and street names of the Confederate past is usually explained to the puzzled rest of us as an anthropological quirk or...
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What Does Donald Trump Mean to the KKK? Attention and Validation, Mostly.
The Ku Klux Klan’s endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared online earlier this week, prompting Trump’s campaign to repudiate the hate group’s support. The October issue...
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Introducing Alt Right Week
What, exactly, is the alt right? What are its ideological foundations, and who its founding fathers? Where did it rise from, and where may it go? These are questions we’ve been reporting since at least...
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Alt-Right Week: What Is the American Far Right?
Today’s far-right is a congeries of self-identified “sovereign citizens” (who, like Walt Whitman, believe they are “entire unto themselves”), “3%ers” (an allusion to the mythical number of Americans...
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What Farrakahn Shares With the Intersectional Left
When CNN correspondent Jake Tapper broke the story that prominent leaders of the Women’s March were buddies with notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, a crisis broke out in Jewish-progressive circles....
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Paul Berman: Farrakhan and the Wizard of Oz
If Louis Farrakhan has done a grave and lasting harm to any one group in particular, it is the African-Americans, and he has done so especially through what are called his positive contributions. A...
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An “Obama effect” has “generated a backlash of white supremacy,” which may have contributed to yesterday’s shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern...
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