January 17, 2021 4:53 pm Police use tear gas around Capitol building where pro-Trump supporters riot and breached the Capitol in Washington DC on Jan. 6, 2021. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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(JTA) A grant funneled through a Jewish federation to a group that was accused of funding the Capitol insurrection was an anomaly, said Eric Fingerhut, the CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America.
Fingerhut reached out to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to address the controversy engendered by an Intercept article last week that noted the $100,000 grant in 2017 to the Tea Party Patriots, a group that organizers of the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection say helped fund the protest. Tea Party Patriots denies funding the protest.
January 13 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Supporters attend the “March to Save America” rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty ImagesSupporters attend the “March to Save America” rally near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Donors to the Tea Party Patriots Foundation, one of the groups that helped organize the January 6 rally preceding the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, include the Jewish Community Federation and late billionaire Republican donor Sanford Diller, according to a 990 form submitted to the IRS by the tax-exempt nonprofit in 2019.
The right-wing organization was listed on the March to Save America website alongside groups like Stop the Steal, Turning Point Action (an affiliate of Turning Point USA), and Women for America First, according to a report last week from Documented, a watchdog group that investigates corporate influence. The March to Save America website is down, but
On the fifth night of Hanukkah, San Francisco-based diplomats who represent countries around the world lit the menorah in a show of support for the Jewish community. And like all gatherings these days, it was on Zoom.
The Dec. 14 event was dubbed “Diplomacy at 75,” a virtual Hanukkah gala sponsored by the American Jewish Committee to mark the 75th anniversary of the signing of the U.N. Charter in San Francisco and the founding of the local chapter of AJC.
Founded in 1906, AJC is a national Jewish advocacy organization devoted to fighting antisemitism, cultivating diplomatic relationships, supporting Israel and building bridges between Jews and non-Jews. It played a key role in inserting human rights protections into the U.N. Charter, which was ratified in San Francisco by 50 countries at the War Memorial Veterans Building in June 1945.