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US President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on August 3, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
August 4, 2020, 4:51 pm
Trump downplays virus deaths, says US doing well ‘in numerous categories’
US president also suggests Jeffrey Epstein may have been murdered in jail, dismisses John Lewis’s life accomplishments during Axios interview
By ToI Staff and AFP
Former president Barack Obama gives the eulogy at the funeral service for the late Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) at Ebenezer Baptist Church on July 30, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Alyssa Pointer-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)
July 31, 2020, 11:14 am
Obama aims criticism at Trump in eulogy for civil rights leader John Lewis
Former US president condemns attempts at voter suppression and the use of federal agents against protesters
By Chris Lefkow
John Lewis, D-Ga., and Norbert Bikales, who was part of the Kindertransport from Berlin to France in July 1939 following the deportation of his parents and brother to Poland, light one of six candles representing the more than six million Jews who were killed during the Holocaust, in a ceremony in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 9, 2002. (Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images via JTA)
July 21, 2020, 2:45 am
John Lewis and the Jews: 6 moments that showcase an enduring alliance
From helping found the Atlanta Black-Jewish Coalition to protesting for the release of Soviet Jews, the US civil rights icon was a powerful friend of the Jewish community
By Ron Kampeas
State troopers swing billy clubs to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma, Alabama March 7, 1965. John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (in the foreground) is being beaten by a state trooper. (AP Photo)
July 18, 2020, 9:23 am
John Lewis, rights icon, ‘American hero’ and the ‘conscience of Congress’
Said he’d been arrested 40 times in the 1960s, 5 more as a congressman. At 78, he told a rally he’d do it again to help reunite immigrant families separated by Trump administration
By Calvin Woodward
In this May 10, 2007 file photo, US Rep. John Lewis in his office on Capitol Hill, in Washington (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
July 18, 2020, 7:42 am
John Lewis, US civil rights and Congress icon who built Jewish ties, dies at 80
Lawmaker and activist was beaten by state troopers at Selma, spoke to crowd at 1963 March on Washington; is eulogized by Bill Clinton as ‘conscience of the nation’
By Agencies
Rep. John Lewis speaks at a news conference in the Capitol on the Voting Rights Advancement Act, Deember. 6, 2019. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images via JTA)
December 31, 2019, 8:46 am
After cancer announcement, praise for US congressman who built Jewish-black ties
John Lewis lauded for his decades of work campaigning for civil rights; Anti-Defamation League calls Democratic lawmaker ‘our nation’s moral compass’
By Ron Kampeas
US Rep. John Lewis speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (photo credit: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
July 27, 2019, 6:52 am
Rep. John Lewis backs the right to boycott Israel — even though he opposes BDS
Civil rights icon says he backs First Amendment protection guaranteeing right to protest, and is a longtime friend of the Jewish state
By Ron Kampeas
US Rep Ilhan Omar speaks to support LGBTQ and allied high school students from across the state of Minnesota who marched to the State Capitol steps Thursday, March 21, 2019 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (AP/Jim Mone)
July 17, 2019, 8:43 pm
Fresh from row with Trump, Ilhan Omar pushes pro-BDS resolution in House
Democrat’s initiative, which affirms 1st amendment right of Americans to boycott, comes as her party’s leadership seeks to introduce measure condemning pro-Palestinian movement
By ToI Staff
Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., flanked by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-NY, launches the black-Jewish caucus at the annual American Jewish Committee Global Forum in Washington DC, on June 3, 2019. (AJC via JTA)
June 4, 2019, 6:15 am
US lawmakers launch congressional black-Jewish caucus
Group from both parties will work to bring African-Americans and Jews together to back hate crimes legislation and combat white supremacy
By JTA
Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff speaks with Perry Taylor, Jr as he visits his Sandy Springs Field Office to thank volunteers as he runs for Georgia's 6th Congressional District on June 17, 2017 in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP)
June 18, 2017, 4:44 am
Jewish candidate, opponent get heavyweight help as House race nears end
Georgia contest, seen as major post-Trump test, brings cabinet members, civil rights icon to campaign trail on final weekend before runoff
By Bill Barrow
Supporters of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., hold signs before the Congressional baseball game, Thursday, June 15, 2017, in Washington. The annual GOP-Democrats baseball game raises money for charity. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
June 16, 2017, 4:50 pm
Scalise has more surgery as authorities track shooter’s path
Investigators recover phone, camera from James Hodgkinson’s van; Dems, Republicans show unity during annual baseball match
By Alan Fram
Reuven H. Taff
January 18, 2017, 3:04 pm
Reuven H. Taff
The day John Lewis came to my shul
The congressman’s plan to avoid Trump’s inauguration stems from a morality forged battling violent discrimination
This file photo taken on January 11, 2017 shows then US President-elect Donald Trump whispering to his daughter Ivanka during a press conference at Trump Tower in New York. (AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY)
January 18, 2017, 1:42 am
Trump to take office with dismal ratings — except on jobs
President-elect half as popular as Obama was before taking office in January 2009, latest polls show
By Ivan Couronne
Democratic Congressman Steve Cohen during a hearing in Washington, February 4, 2014. (AP/Cliff Owen)
January 17, 2017, 3:16 pm
2 Jewish Congressmen join Trump inauguration boycott
Rep. Steve Cohen rails at president ‘semi-elect,’ who he says ‘does not deserve to be president’; Nadler: Trump ‘flaunts his illicit behavior’
By AP and ToI Staff
Writer Calvin Trillin, center, interviewing John Lewis in Birmingham, Ala., as the Freedom Riders were boarding the bus for Montgomery in 1961 (Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images via JTA)
January 16, 2017, 4:52 am
ADL jumps to Rep. Lewis’ defense after Trump tweet
Jewish group says ‘everyone at ADL proud to call Lewis an ally; a true civil rights hero’
By JTA
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