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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., stops to look at damage in the early morning hours of Thursday, January 7, 2021, after protesters stormed the Capitol in Washington, on Wednesday. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
JTA Ruth Friedman could tell that Wednesday’s pro-Trump protests in Washington, DC, might be volatile when she boarded a plane home to DC from her grandmother’s funeral on Tuesday.
The flight was full of people in MAGA gear on their way to Washington to protest the results of the presidential election, as US President Donald Trump had urged them to. As the plane landed, she recalled, one man shouted “Who’s here to support President Trump?” Other people on the flight cheered and chanted “USA! USA!”
Rabbis in DC and beyond rush to calm congregants on edge after a day of mob chaos at the Capitol January 6, 2021 11:41 pm A view of the crowds outside the U.S. Capitol for the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6, 2021 that led to violence. (Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)
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(JTA) Ruth Friedman could tell that Wednesday’s pro-Trump protests in Washington, D.C., might be volatile when she boarded a plane home to the nation’s capital from her grandmother’s funeral on Tuesday.
The flight was full of people in MAGA gear on their way to Washington to protest the results of the presidential election, as President Donald Trump had urged them. As the plane landed, she recalled, one man shouted “Who’s here to support President Trump?” Others cheered and chanted “USA! USA!”
(JTA) Ruth Friedman could tell that Wednesday’s pro-Trump protests in Washington, D.C., might be volatile when she boarded a plane home to D.C. from her grandmother’s funeral on Tuesday.
The flight was full of people in MAGA gear on their way to Washington to protest the results of the presidential election, as President Donald Trump had urged them to. As the plane landed, she recalled, one man shouted “Who’s here to support President Trump?” Other people on the flight cheered and chanted “USA! USA!”
“I felt pretty freaked out because I’m Jewish,” said Friedman, who helps lead Ohev Sholom – The National Synagogue in Washington, D.C., an Orthodox congregation. “I really just tried to keep my head down. I really was genuinely afraid to engage.”
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The family and friends cast of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat, a production created solely for the coronavirus bar mitzvah celebration of Jerusalem 13-year-old Adin Markowitz (Courtesy Laura Ben-David)
Through a year of uncertainties, with bar and bat mitzvahs moving from event halls to Zoom screens, Adin Markowitz was sure of only one thing: When he turned 13 in December, his bar mitzvah would include singing, over-the-top dancing and a famous coat of many colors, come pandemic or high water.
It’s traditional for bar and bat mitzvah celebrants to chant the Torah portion in synagogue as they mark the rite of passage. For Markowitz, who was born on Hanukkah, that meant he would be reading Parashat Miketz, which tells the story of Joseph’s rise to power in Egypt.