Jewish Ledger
The Capitol under attack
By Shira Hanau
(JTA) – Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the U.S. capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday – but not because he didn’t want to be.
Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down to D.C. to join mass protests of the election results Wednesday, Jan. 6. He had left the city before the protest turned into an insurrection that drove members of Congress and the vice president into hiding, and in which a woman was killed.
But that afternoon, unaware that his compatriots were now occupying the Senate chamber and its environs, he said that he, too, would like to take his complaint straight to the halls of Congress.
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Security forces respond with tear gas after US President Donald Trump s supporters breached the US Capitol security in Washington DC on January 6, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
JTA Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the US Capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday but not because he didn’t want to be.
Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down to Washington, DC, to join mass protests of the election results Wednesday. He left the city before the protest turned into an insurrection that drove members of Congress and the vice president into hiding, and in which a woman was killed.
Orthodox Jewish Trump supporters decry violence but not the movement that fueled the mob January 7, 2021 10:12 am Security forces respond with tear gas after the US President Donald Trumps supporters breached the US Capitol security in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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(JTA) Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn’t at the U.S. capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday but not because he didn’t want to be.
Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down to D.C. to join mass protests of the election results Wednesday. He had left the city before the protest turned into an insurrection that drove members of Congress and the vice president into hiding, and in which a woman was killed.
Jewish Ledger
NY Jews began to unite against antisemitism after deadly attacks. Then COVID happened.
By Ben Sales
NEW YORK (JTA) – When 25,000 Jews marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on Jan. 5, Evan Bernstein felt something he hadn’t experienced in weeks: optimism.
Not even a month earlier, he had prayed with the small Orthodox community in Jersey City, New Jersey, next to the spot where shooters had just killed three people at a kosher supermarket after gunning down a police officer.
Eighteen days later, when a man with a machete entered a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, and stabbed five people, Bernstein – then the New York-New Jersey regional director of the Anti-Defamation League – drove up immediately. After staying up half the night checking in on the community and talking to law enforcement and reporters, he slept in his car. Before and after the attacks, he’d been making trips to Brooklyn to respond to a string of antisemitic assa
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Emergency responders work at a kosher supermarket, the site of a shooting in Jersey City, New Jersey, December 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NEW YORK (JTA) When 25,000 Jews marched across the Brooklyn Bridge on January 5, 2020, Evan Bernstein felt something he hadn’t experienced in weeks: optimism.
Not even a month earlier, he had prayed with the small Orthodox community in Jersey City, New Jersey, next to the spot where shooters had just killed three people at a kosher supermarket after gunning down a police officer.
Eighteen days later, when a man with a machete entered a rabbi’s home in Monsey, New York, and stabbed five people, Bernstein then the New York-New Jersey regional director of the Anti-Defamation League drove up immediately. After staying up half the night checking in on the community and talking to law enforcement and reporters, he slept in his car. Before and after the attacks, he’d been making trips to Brooklyn to respond to a strin