ELECTION HANGOVER
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Volume 133
Number 30
Published Weekly Since 1887
Jewish Men
Confronted by Black
Hebrew Israelites at
Protest JESSE BERNSTEIN, LIZ SPIKOL AND BEN SALES/JTA
“ORTHODOX JEWS VIOLENTLY
attacked by mob @ BLM protest last night
in Philly,” Yaacov Behrman, a community
activist, tweeted on the morning of Oct.

28. “Th ey told protesters they were there to
show solidarity. Mob shouted anti Semitic
& racist hate as they assaulted victims.

Spoke to victim, says he feared for his life.

Th is needs to be condemned by all!”
Th e video attached to Behrman’s tweet,
which seems to have been originally posted
on an Instagram account called HOI Philly,
shows three Jewish men being berated during
protests on 52nd Street in West Philadelphia.

Behrman’s tweet of the video has been viewed
more than 341,000 times as of Nov. 3.

Th e video Behrman shared shows
three men, two of them wearing kippot,
being addressed by men at the protests
decrying the killing of Walter Wallace
Voters queue outside The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts the morning of Election Day.

Photo by Sophie Panzer
Election Day Mixes Both
New and Familiar
JESSE BERNSTEIN, ANDY GOTLIEB, SOPHIE PANZER
AND LIZ SPIKOL | JE STAFF
IN SOME WAYS, Election Day unrolled
like it always does.

Early queues of voters. Campaign signs
outside polling places. Commiteepeople
trying to sway voters — though was
anyone still undecided on Nov. 3? “I
Voted” stickers. Cold, but clear weather.

Politicians making the rounds.

But in other ways, it was rather diff erent
— and not just because of the masks.

Th ose lines seemed longer because
people were social distancing (a few smart
people brought chairs). Th e procedures
were diff erent at many precincts, such as
electronic ballots replaced by paper ones
See Protest, Page 16
See Election, Page 17
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