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GARY FIELDS

Crowds gather to listen to Sen. Bernie Sanders, an Independent of Vermont, during a No Kings protest, in Washington, October 18, 2025. (Allison Robbert/AP)
October 19, 2025, 5:29 pm
Thousands of ‘No Kings’ protest rallies held across US, drawing mockery from Trump
Demonstrators march against what they see as US drift into authoritarianism; Trump responds with AI videos of himself wearing crown, dropping sewage on protesters
By MIKE PESOLI, Matt Brown and GARY FIELDS
Former White House strategist Steve Bannon speaks with reporters after departing federal court on November 15, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
July 18, 2022, 8:49 am
Ex-Trump aide Bannon set to go on trial for refusing to cooperate with Jan. 6 panel
Former adviser to then-US president faces criminal contempt of Congress charges after refusing for months to cooperate with committee investigating the Capitol insurrection
By GARY FIELDS
Lani Guinier speaks at the annual meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 13, 1994, in Washington (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)
January 8, 2022, 9:43 am
Pioneering US civil rights lawyer, professor Lani Guinier dies at 71
Her nomination as Justice Dep’t civil rights chief was nixed after conservative criticism; Black dad and white, Jewish mom wed when interracial marriage was illegal in many states
By Jessica Gresko and GARY FIELDS
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg applauds after a performance in her honor after she spoke about her life and work during a discussion at Georgetown Law School in Washington, April 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
September 24, 2020, 4:44 pm
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s empathy born of Jewish history, ‘otherness’
‘Justice, compassion, fairness… these are things that we talk about literally on a weekly basis,’ says rabbi of late US justice’s childhood synagogue. ‘She lived those values’
By GARY FIELDS and Sally Stapleton
The Rev. Steven Paulikas, right, and curate Spencer Cantrell deliver an Evening Prayer service over Facebook Live in the Brooklyn borough of New York, March 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Emily Leshner)
April 1, 2020, 4:34 pm
Virus forces the faithful to improvise, observe holidays in isolation
COVID-19 pandemic upends plans for holidays of Passover and Easter, as well as Hindu and Sikh new year’s celebrations; Muslims pray outbreak will ease by Ramadan
By GARY FIELDS
Orthodox Jews listen to ex-NY state assemblyman Dov Hikind speak in Monsey, New York, December 29, 2019, following a stabbing rampage late Saturday during a Hanukkah celebration. (AP/Allyse Pulliam)
January 1, 2020, 5:54 pm
FBI data underscores rising threat to places of worship
Monsey stabbing and Texas church shooting join long list of attacks on faith communities, which surged by 34.8% between 2014 and 2018
By GARY FIELDS and David Crary
Community members celebrate the arrival of a new Torah at Chaim Rottenberg's residence, Sunday, December 29, 2019, in Monsey, New York. A day earlier, a knife-wielding man stormed into the home and stabbed multiple people as they celebrated Hanukkah in the Orthodox Jewish community. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
December 30, 2019, 3:06 am
US Jewish leaders urge concrete action after another ‘senseless’ attack
‘When will enough be enough?’ asks ADL chief after Monsey stabbings, the 10th anti-Semitic incident in NY area in a week; communities hold events with locked doors, armed guards
By GARY FIELDS, LUIS ANDRES HENAO and KIMBER LEE KRUESI
Chabad rabbis gather for an annual group photo outside of the Chabad-Yubavitch Worldwide headquarters as a part of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries in New York, November 24, 2019. (Emily Leshner/AP)
November 26, 2019, 7:52 am
At Chabad confab, rabbis tout daily giving as antidote to hate
Pilot program begun in El Paso, Texas, gives students charity boxes to fill, allowing them to learn empathy by pausing each day to consider others
By GARY FIELDS
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