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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

Vermont

File: US Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, speaks at an event where US President Joe Biden was set to address prescription drug costs in Concord, New Hampshire, on October 22, 2024. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)
November 6, 2024, 10:27 am
Israel critic, progressive darling Bernie Sanders wins fourth US Senate term
Independent candidate defeats Republican challenger who said he was not delivering results, wanted him to retire after 34 years in Congress
By Lisa Rathke
An amateur astronomer prepares her telescope a day before a total solar eclipse in Mazatlan, Mexico, Sunday, April 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
April 8, 2024, 8:51 am
Huge crowds await total solar eclipse in North America, but clouds may spoil view
The best weather is expected at the tail end of the eclipse in Vermont and Maine; It will be another 21 years before the US sees another total solar eclipse on this scale
By Marcia Dunn
Sen. Bernie Sanders talks to the media as he walks to the House chamber before President Joe Biden's State of the Union address at the US Capitol, through March 7, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Jose Luis Magana, File)
April 7, 2024, 11:09 pm
Man arrested for setting Sen. Bernie Sanders’s office in Vermont on fire
Police apprehended 35-year-old suspect who sprayed liquid on floor of lawmaker’s office before setting it ablaze; building interior damaged, but no casualties reported
By AP
This August 31, 2017, file photo shows a sign for Middlebury College on the campus in Middlebury, Vermont. (AP Photo/Wilson Ring, File)
March 1, 2024, 4:55 pm
Complaint against Middlebury College alleges discrimination aimed at Jewish students
Title VI civil rights grievance filed by the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice says Vermont school retaliated against those who claimed to suffer antisemitism on campus
By Cathryn J. Prince
In this Nov. 23, 2023, photo provided by family attorney Abed Ayoub, three college students, from the left, Tahseen Ali Ahmad, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Hisham Awartani, stand together for a photograph. (Rich Price via AP, File)
December 5, 2023, 9:12 am
Nearly $1 million raised for Palestinian student shot in Vermont
GoFundMe page set up by family of Hisham Awartani, who has bullet lodged in spine after possible hate crime, reaches $950,000
By Lisa Rathke
A sign on the University of Vermont campus in Burlington, Vermont, is pictured on March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
November 27, 2023, 1:39 pm
Police arrest suspect in shooting of 3 Palestinian students in Vermont
Jason J. Eaton is suspected of opening fire on the men after overhearing them speaking Arabic; Burlington mayor says it ‘may have been a hate-motivated crime’
By KATHY McCORMACK
File: The campus of the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont, on March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
November 26, 2023, 11:20 pm
Three Palestinian men shot in Vermont in possible hate crime, US authorities say
Shooter, a white man with a handgun who fired ‘without speaking,’ fled the scene; two of the victims were wearing black-and-white Palestinian keffiyehs
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: The campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
April 5, 2023, 10:16 pm
US federal probe finds University of Vermont mishandled antisemitism allegations
Flagship state university resolves complaint with Office for Civil Rights after investigation says the school did not properly look into harassment of Jewish students
By Luke Tress
Becca Balint (left), a Democratic candidate for the US House for Vermont, stands with Sen. Bernie Sanders (center), and Rep. Peter Welch, at a campaign rally in Barre, Vermont, on October 22, 2022, (AP/Lisa Rathke)
October 27, 2022, 4:11 pm
Democrat Becca Balint likely to be Vermont’s first openly gay congressperson
Balint, whose grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust, hopes to offer deep listening skills she perfected as a middle-school teacher to find common ground in Washington
By Lisa Rathke
Becca Balint campaigning this year to represent Vermont in Congress in an undated photo. (Becca Balint for US Congress/via JTA)
September 19, 2022, 1:56 am
In Vermont, Becca Balint’s Congress run is inspired by her Holocaust survivor father
‘I grew up with the knowledge that people can be led astray when they’re scared,’ says the ‘Jew-ish’ candidate, who is backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders
By Ron Kampeas
Illustrative: The campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
September 18, 2022, 11:18 am
‘Victim blaming’: University of Vermont assailed for denying antisemitism charges
Over 20 Jewish groups, including the ADL, Hillel and Jewish Federations, decry college for calling allegations of discrimination ‘patently false’
By Luke Tress
The campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
September 16, 2022, 4:18 am
University of Vermont vehemently rejects federal probe into antisemitism complaints
School president says claims that Jewish students were discriminated against already dealt with; head of group that filed complaint argues university not taking issue seriously
By AP, JTA and Luke Tress
Illustrative: The campus of the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont, March 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
September 13, 2022, 1:12 pm
US feds open probe into alleged antisemitism at University of Vermont
Complaint claims college turned blind eye to discrimination as support groups barred Zionists, students vandalized Hillel building, and teaching assistant reveled in cyberbullying
By Luke Tress
The Lost Mural hangs in the entryway of Ohavi Zedek Synagogue, in Burlington, Vermont, July 29, 2022. The mural painted in 1910 by a Lithuanian immigrant, which was later hidden behind a wall for years, has been rehabilitated and moved and is what experts say is a rare piece of art. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
August 16, 2022, 10:05 am
Century-old synagogue mural uncovered in Vermont restored and revealed to public
Known as ‘the lost mural,’ the colorful piece was painted by a Lithuanian immigrant in a style common to synagogues across pre-Holocaust Europe
By Lisa Rathke
Becca Balint's win in the Democratic primary in Vermont in August 2022 means it is likely she will win the state's sole seat in the House of Representatives in November. (Balint campaign via JTA)
August 10, 2022, 7:00 pm
Vermont state senator Becca Balint wins Democratic primary
Balint says her family’s Holocaust history inspires her political activism; she easily defeated her main competitor, the state’s lieutenant governor Molly Gray
By Andrew Lapin
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