Orthodox Jewish Trump supporters decry violence but not the movement
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January 15, 2021
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Security forces respond with tear gas after the US President Donald Trumps supporters breached the U.S. Capitol security in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021.
(JTA) - Heshy Tischler, the pro-Trump provocateur of Orthodox Brooklyn, wasn't at the U.S. capitol when a mob stormed it Wednesday - but not because he didn't want to be.
Tischler was one of a throng of Orthodox Jews who traveled down to D.C. to join mass protests of the election results Wednesday. He had left the city before the protest turned into an insurrection that drove members of Congress and the vice president into hiding, and in which a woman was killed.
But that afternoon, unaware that his compatriots were now occupying the Senate chamber and its environs, he said that he, too,...
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