Published: 21 August 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
President Trump, cast out the anti-Semites (Times of Israel)
11 former White House Jewish liaisons for Obama, Bush, Clinton and Reagan issue an open letter to US president, pleading for “moral leadership to respond to the rise of hatred in the land we love” (Aug 19)
An open letter to our fellow Jews (Medium)
MICHAEL CHABON and AYELET WALDMAN To our fellow Jews: We know that, up to now, some of you have made an effort to reserve judgment on the question of whether or not President Donald Trump is an anti-Semite, and to give him the benefit of the doubt (Aug 17)
Jewish Treasury Secretary Defends Trump's Response to Charlottesville (Haaretz)
Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejects a petition for his resignation from Yale students, insisting they should be comforted by his continued presence in the administration (Reuters, Aug 20)
In the wake of Charlottesville, Orthodox Judaism’s silence is deafening (Tablet)
Why are the rabbis who were so vocal about the Iran deal so quiet when Americans are attacked on the streets by Nazis? (Aug 15)
Photo: Counterprotesters at the Free Speech rally in Boston last weekend (AP)
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