Some 2,500 people gathered on Sunday at a memorial service for the 11 Jewish worshipers slain in their Pittsburgh synagogue during Sabbath prayers, a mass murder the mayor called the city’s “darkest hour” while exhorting mourners to “defeat hate with love.”
Parishoners at the historic black Emanuel church in Charleston, South Carolina, on Sunday grieved this weekend’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre and recalled a 2015 mass shooting at their church, while chiding President Donald Trump’s “rhetoric of hate”.
By Bill Tarrant (Reuters) – In the 1960s, when I was growing up in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill district, we used to take the trolley up cobble-stoned Murray Avenue heading downtown, passing through a tableau of European-American Jewish life. There were Silverman’s and Rosenbloom’s, the two bakeries where we bought our dark rye bread. There were…
The website where the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue gunman posted anti-Semitic views said on Sunday it was “working around the clock” to stay online after being cut off by payment processors and forced to switch web hosts.
Democratic donor Tom Steyer on Sunday denounced as anti-Semitic a now-deleted tweet from Kevin McCarthy, the No. 2 Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, that said Steyer and two other wealthy donors were trying to buy the November congressional elections.
LeBron James showed for the Lakers game with the Spurs sporting a political statement. King James was wearing a Beto For Senate hat. Here is James: LeBron James wearing a Beto for Senate hat before the Lakers game in San Antonio tonight pic.twitter.com/dNsVmETohV — Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) October 27, 2018 James hasn’t been shy about…
Actor Will Ferrell has been spotted in Georgia going door to door canvassing for Democratic candidates and Stacey Abrams.
Fox News is responding to the week of Trump inspired right-wing terrorism by claiming that peaceful liberal protesters are the same as the bombers and mass shooters on the right.
House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) had pinned a tweet attacking George Soros to his Twitter profile, and he kept the tweet up after the bomb was sent to Soros.
Pope Francis on Sunday strongly condemned the attack on a synagogue in Pittsburgh, calling for the stamping out of “hotbeds of hate” and for stronger moral and civil values.
The 11 victims murdered at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the deadliest attack ever on the Jewish community in the United States were mostly older worshipers, ranging in age from 54 to 97, officials said on Sunday.
Gab is a popular gathering place for alt-right activists and white nationalists whose views are unwelcome or banned on other social media platforms.
NBC News’s Chuck Todd discussed the connection between heated political rhetoric and violence and how Trump is avoiding his responsibility in dealing with the problem.
A leading Jewish rabbi expressed the feelings of millions of Americans when he appeared on CNN and criticized President Donald Trump for some of his remarks which followed the mass murder in Pittsburgh on Saturday. Rabbi Joshua Stanton directly responded to Trump who had blamed the death toll in the synagogue massacre to a lack…
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders threw a fit and the blamed media as Trump is being held accountable for promoting a climate that has encouraged violence and division.
Nearly $50,000 has been raised through a Muslim crowdfunding site for the victims of the shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday. The site was started by two Muslim nonprofit organizations. The fundraising campaign was launched on the site LaunchGood, which is a crowdfunding site specifically designed for Muslims. It reached its initial goal of $25,000…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) explained that Trump’s modus operandi of preaching hate and division daily is why he owns the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting.
Our nation is on edge, and according to The Washington Post, this may be because President Donald Trump has “fostered the toxic environment.†While every American yearns for a president who will calmly provide leadership and promote unity, we have a president who instead stokes fear and incites violence through his hateful rhetoric. Over the…
In the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency anti-Semitic incidents in the United States increased nearly 60% a report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) showed earlier this year. “In its annual Audit of Anti-Semitic Incidents, @ADL_National found that the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the US rose 57% in 2017 – the largest single-year increase…
The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Scott W. Brady, announced late Saturday that his office had formally filed 29 criminal charges against Robert Bowers, the alleged shooter who killed 11 people at the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue Saturday morning. “Please know that justice in this case will be swift and it will…
