Unite the Right
Columbia University is another Charlottesville
By Jeffrey Salkin — April 24, 2024
(RNS) — Columbia University protests are like Charlottesville’s ‘Unite the Right’ rally: Discuss. Welcome to an academic disgrace.
Amy Spitalnick, who took on neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, is moving to Bend the Arc
By Yonat Shimron — August 9, 2022
(RNS) — In November, Spitalnick will become CEO of the left-leaning organization that blends community organizing, political advocacy and leadership training.
How Black people and Jews are bound together in ‘great replacement’ theory
By Yonat Shimron — May 16, 2022
(RNS) — Dozens of pages of the Buffalo shooter's manifesto are devoted first to Blacks and then to Jews, replete with photos, drawings, graphs and caricatures.
A transqueer Latinx theologian writes about reaching ‘A Path to Our Liberation’
By Alejandra Molina — April 18, 2022
(RNS) — 'It's important for me as a trans person, as Latinx, to take place and to bear witness that even someone like me can follow the ways of Jesus and maybe imagine another possible world.'
The Unite the Right rally changed her life. She now wants to defeat white nationalism.
By Yonat Shimron — November 26, 2021
(RNS) — Since that searing summer day four years ago, Rabbi Rachel Schmelkin has devoted herself to better understanding what happened and working to make sure it never happens again.
White supremacists found liable for violence at Charlottesville rally
By Jack Jenkins — November 23, 2021
(RNS) — Clergy were among the plaintiffs who brought the case against the white supremacists.
Conspiracies about a ‘catastrophic takeover’ by Jews have long been an American problem
By Jonathan D. Sarna — November 22, 2021
(The Conversation) — In the late 19th century, a satiric weekly stoked fears about how Jewish immigrants would change New York City’s character.
The battle over CRT is a manufactured crisis. Here’s why we still have to fight it.
By Khyati Y. Joshi — August 18, 2021
(RNS) — Teachers and administrators are bracing for an attack that is rushing toward them like a tsunami.
Don’t believe in systemic racism? Let’s talk about the sexual revolution.
By Karen Swallow Prior — July 12, 2021
(RNS) — One need not embrace critical race theory to recognize that systemic racism exists.
Khyati Y. Joshi argues equal religious freedom in America is an optical illusion
By Yonat Shimron — July 16, 2020
(RNS) — In her new book, she argues Christianity, especially of the white Protestant variety, undergirds the nation’s institutions and practices and establishes a normative baseline from which all other faiths are seen as abnormal.
How a rally for the right in Charlottesville emboldened a resurgent Religious Left
By Jack Jenkins — April 17, 2020
(RNS) — From a new book by RNS correspondent Jack Jenkins that chronicles a new era of progressive activism and the hard work of reforging connections and reckoning with past mistakes required to revive a movement.
Faith-based protesters flock to Washington to counter white supremacists
By Jack Jenkins — August 12, 2018
WASHINGTON (RNS) Methodists, Baptists, Quakers and other religious counter-demonstrators far outnumbered the white supremacists assembled for the 'Unite the Right 2' rally in D.C. on Sunday.
Charlottesville mayor says social media fed hatred and violence at 2017 rally
By Jerome Socolovsky — March 30, 2018
JERUSALEM (RNS) — Mike Signer, the former mayor of Charlottesville, Va., began receiving anti-Semitic messages in early 2017, when, for the first time, he started to speak publicly about being Jewish.
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