Live Breaking News & Updates on Herb Weisberg

Stay updated with breaking news from Herb weisberg. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

The Capitol riot revealed a political chasm among American Jews


Close icon
Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification.
Riots at the US Capitol Building.
Michael Nigro/Pacific Press:LightRocket/Getty
Jewish Americans have been politically divided over support for Trump. 
The pro-Trump Capitol riot on January 6 that featured at least one Holocaust reference showed the depth of that chasm.
While most American Jews voted for Biden, most Orthodox Jews approved of Trump s job as president.
Among the rioters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, was a white man with long graying hair and a thick white beard. Emblazoned on his hooded sweatshirt, pictured in several photographs from the insurrection, were the words, Camp Auschwitz. Beneath the reference to the Holocaust concentration camp that killed 1.1 million people during World War II was an image of a skull with the phrase Work bring ....

New York , United States , Israel General , New Jersey , Long Island , Elchanan Poupko , Herb Weisberg , Donald Trump , Ben Shapiro , Aaron Mostofsky , Jared Kushner , Robert Packer , Shalom Lipner , Joe Biden , Ivanka Trump , Benjamin Netanyahu , Aryeh Tuchman , Emily Cohen , Ilhan Omar , Laura Loomer , York Supreme Court , Jewish Telegraphic Agency , Ohio State University , Defamation League Center On Extremism , Jewish Virtual Library , Simon Wiesenthal Center ,