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In the first half of the 19th century, Washington, D.C. was a sleepy town. Though largely mapped out, it was still more or less unpopulated. Then came the Civil War, and both the federal government and the city’s population exploded. The sudden growth translated into a host of new opportunities for business—and for Jews.
This oft-overlooked ...

• Comic book superhero Batwoman is running for mayor of Washington, D.C., where she’d be the first lesbian, and also the first Jew, to hold the job, says her “campaign manager.” [Bilerico Project]
• Some Israelis are miffed that Norway has declared 2009 a year honoring Knut Hamsun, who, in the words of a Norwegian official, ...

A troop of Girl Scouts from Dallas were among the first people in line this morning at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, which re-opened today, two days after anti-Semitic Holocaust denier James von Brunn allegedly tried to storm the federal facility. “To say that we can’t do this because of this event is that man ...

There is a lot that we must admit we don’t know about James von Brunn, the white supremacist who (allegedly) shot a guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum yesterday. We don’t know his age: I variously read that he was 88, 89, or 90 years old. We don’t know if any of his ...

UPDATED, 5:12 p.m.: A security guard was shot and killed inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., this afternoon. The gunman was 88-year-old James W. von Brunn, a known white supremacist. He walked into the museum with a rifle and opened fire. Guard Stephen Tyrone Johns was mortally wounded. Von Brunn was wounded ...

Every patch of roof-covered earth within miles of the National Mall was coveted by people bearing sleeping bags on Monday night, including the Washington, D.C., Jewish Community Center, which let about 300 people sleep on its floor. There were middle schoolers from Akron, Ohio, in a classroom; high school kids from Baltimore in the social ...