Son of Jewish judge who led a national synagogue group was among mob that entered the Capitol
BY SHIRA HANAU JANUARY 7, 2021 5:36 PM
Aaron Mostofsky, right, was one of the rioters who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Screenshot from D.C. Police)
https://www.jta.org/2021/01/07/unit...-group-was-among-mob-that-entered-the-capitol
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A Messianic rabbi from Florida was among the hundreds of people arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6th; shofars (rams horns used in Jewish ritual) were blown as part of the planned program surrounding the Capitol riot; Messianic rabbis were featured speakers at post-election, pro-Trump rallies like the Jericho March; and Christian participants in Trump’s rally before the riot carried Israeli flags. Why were all these blendings of Judaism and Christianity showing up in the anti-democratic, pro-Trump protests and insurrection? While attention has been rightly paid to the Christian supremacist, racist, Islamophobic, and Antisemitic aspects of Whitehead and Perry’s recent delineation of “Christian Nationalism,” if we are to fully understand this consolidating movement, we also need to account for its philo-semitic, Christian Zionist, and Messianic Jewish elements. This paper argues that these radicalized politics around Messianic Judaism and Christian Zionism in America trace back to the origins of contemporary Messianic Judaism and its attachment to Neo-charismatic networks of leaders that formed the molten core of pro-Trump Evangelical mobilization since 2016.
https://papers.aarweb.org/paper/sho...-american-christian-nationalism’s-jewish-edge
NYC Jewish newspaper stirs outrage with photo ‘glorifying’ Capitol riots
By JEREMY SHARON JANUARY 13, 2021 18:23
After years of positive coverage of Donald Trump, some Orthodox publications condemned the violence at the Capitol but declined to blame it on the president. (photo credit: GRACE YEGEL/JTA)
After years of positive coverage of Donald Trump, some Orthodox publications condemned the violence at the Capitol but declined to blame it on the president.
(photo credit: GRACE YEGEL/JTA)
In the picture, Gila Jedwab, a "Five Towns Jewish Times" columnist, is seen standing outside the Capitol building with the rioters
https://m.jpost.com/american-politi...ge-with-photo-glorifying-capitol-riots-655246