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Charlottesville Jews Were Forced Out The Back Door By Neo-Nazi Marchers On Shabbat
Forward ^ | August 16, 2017 | Daniel J. Solomon Read more: http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/380116/charlottesville-synagogue-

Posted on 08/16/2017 6:00:29 PM PDT by piasa

As white supremacists converged on a Charlottesville park for their violent “Unite the Right” rally, some of them menaced the city’s historic Beth Israel synagogue during Shabbat services, standing across from the building with semi-automatic weapons in their hands. “Had they tried to enter, I don’t know what I could have done to stop them, but I couldn’t take my eyes off them, either,” wrote Alan Zimmerman, the president of the Reform congregation, about the three neo-Nazis he stared down as congregants prayed inside.

Zimmerman, in an essay published on ReformJudaism.org, said that neo-Nazis marching past the building shouted hateful slogans like “Seig Heil,” the Third Reich’s “Hail Victory” shout. He added that the synagogue had retained an armed guard, after the Charlottesville police department failed to provide the synagogue with security on Saturday. The synagogue took other precautionary measures, due to calls on far-right Web sites for the building to be burned. Zimmerman said that he and the rabbis decided to remove the congregation’s Torah scrolls to a more secure location.... Read more: http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/380116/charlottesville-synagogue-back-door-neo-nazis/


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: antifaflag; charlottesville; jews; lies; neonazis; synagogue
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To: af_vet_1981
Have you been drinking?

How does my hoping that Zimmerman, presumably a liberal due to his affiliation with reformed Judaism, gain a new perspective on his right to keep and bears arms, show ill will on my part?

And considering the past century alone, is it not baffling that American Jews are extremely leftist?

I didn't doff my cap last time I said "Tel Aviv." Are you going to turn me in to the PC police?

There has been no ill will towards Jews evinced on this thread. Not one iota.

41 posted on 08/16/2017 6:53:09 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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Presuming FR is a conservative forum, it's fair to say some conservatives feel Jews can worship free of intimidation. Others feel it didn't occur, it's widely reported, particularly in the foreign press. I can't imagine why liberal Jews don't embrace the conservatives who call them liars.

42 posted on 08/16/2017 6:53:11 PM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: ckilmer; All

Doesn’t the Rabbi or any of his congregation have a phone or a camera?

Are there no security cameras on that street?

I recall a similar story in Iowa about a Jewish school being shot up. It turned out to be a single BB hitting a window, very likely fired by some kid who did not intend to hit it.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/fake-bullet-hole-in-synagagoge-in.html

So much of this is in the mind of the person who claims to be intimidated.


43 posted on 08/16/2017 6:54:50 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: samantha

Ask Rev. Sharpton what he thinks of Jews

See Freddies Fashion Mart, e.g.


44 posted on 08/16/2017 6:58:47 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
There has been no ill will towards Jews evinced on this thread. Not one iota.

There were a couple of posters who did not exhibit an iota of ill will towards these Jews.
45 posted on 08/16/2017 6:59:24 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: Wyrd bið ful aræd
How much you want to bet that Zimmerman still can't imagine why anyone would want to own a firearm or be allowed to defend themselves?

It took me awhile to figure that one out. I was thinking about the other Zimmerman (George), and it didn't compute. I re-read the article and said, 'oh, a different Zimmerman...'

46 posted on 08/16/2017 7:01:29 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: Ben Ficklin

I’m not necessarily saying he’s lying. What makes you so sure these 3 weren’t fake nazis?
Seriously, quit the knee jerk believe everything crap. I know it’s hard, I struggle with it too.
Much of this political drama is fake and being manufactured.


47 posted on 08/16/2017 7:02:53 PM PDT by Professional
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To: piasa
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Lots of folks blocked the road.

48 posted on 08/16/2017 7:04:26 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: Timpanagos1; freedomjusticeruleoflaw
DHJm7is_UAAAw_Eqw
It was probably the slaughtering communists.

49 posted on 08/16/2017 7:07:27 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Don't check the news, check Cernovich on Twitter)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Exactly.....


50 posted on 08/16/2017 7:27:05 PM PDT by samantha (keep up the fight..)
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To: marktwain

>>Are there no security cameras on that street?

The smallest of our local synagogues definitely has a full suite of cameras. We got a call to check an odd happening there while I was on a police ride-along.


51 posted on 08/16/2017 7:38:51 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: piasa; All

IIRC, numerous eyewitness reports have said that the only people who showed up armed were some groups of Oathkeepers, who almost assuredly were not standing across the street from a synagogue menacing its congregants. This story sounds fake.


52 posted on 08/16/2017 7:39:44 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Bring back lords and kings)
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To: piasa
I've always admired this organization.


53 posted on 08/16/2017 7:51:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: Ben Ficklin

You two need to make your statements at Forward where this article was published and sign your real names.
Or better yet, call Alan Zimmerman at the synagogue and tell him he is a lying Jew.


Or you could just call Mr. Zimmerman and ask him where he lost his cell phone. A cell phone that could have easily documented such a serious charge.


54 posted on 08/16/2017 7:52:11 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

Reformed Jews are as non-religious as it gets.


In a liberal college town. Probably 1% of them voted for Trump.


55 posted on 08/16/2017 7:53:51 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: piasa

Every synagogue should have a gun club


56 posted on 08/16/2017 8:02:30 PM PDT by captain_dave
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

It smells like a false flag....Soros paid protestors pretending to be the “right” in order to discredit conservatives, gun owners and, by extension, the president.


57 posted on 08/16/2017 8:03:20 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw

One would think in this day and age that synagogues would have a number of security cameras.


58 posted on 08/16/2017 8:07:46 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation ("You can't fix America without pissing off the people who broke it".....Bill Mitchell)
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To: piasa
Don't expect the far-left Forward to publicize the posters Antifa was distributing in Portland "on the Sabbath" this past weekend featuring this attack on "Heebs" (epithet for Jews)...


59 posted on 08/16/2017 8:09:22 PM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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To: dowcaet

Agree. It would not surprise me one bit if the “neo-nazis” turned out to be leftwingers.

No true conservative would condone nazis, neo-nazis, white supremacists, or any other hate group.

The left loves to find these rare instances and individuals and pretend that they represent the conservative movement.


60 posted on 08/16/2017 8:20:48 PM PDT by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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