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SOLRAD Presents: HOSTILE TAKEOVER: How A MAGA Coup Ripped My Parents’ Synagogue Apart

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After Ari Richter’s parents joined a sleepy, Reform synagogue in exurban Florida, a small but organized right-wing cohort took over the temple’s board during Trump’s first term, enacting a MAGA-inspired agenda. Deep divisions ensued within the congregation along LGBTQIA issues, pre-vaccine COVID-19 protocols, and other depressingly familiar partisan fault lines. 

Ari Richter is a visual artist, cartoonist and professor. He is the author of Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz: A Graphic Family Memoir of Trauma & Inheritance (Fantagraphics Books). The grandson of Holocaust survivors and son of therapists, he lives in New York with his wife and daughters. More at aririchter.com and @ari.richter

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2 responses to “SOLRAD Presents: HOSTILE TAKEOVER: How A MAGA Coup Ripped My Parents’ Synagogue Apart”

  1. Hannah Avatar
    Hannah

    I wasn’t involved in this synagogue, but I know someone who was at this time. I have been saying for nearly 5 years “hold up, I thought surviving plagues was kind of a central piece of Judaism. Why are they begging so hard to die of the plague?!” Anyways, I have anxiously been awaiting the publication of this piece for a really long time now and it came out FANTASTIC. Well done, Mr. Richter.

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    David Richter

    This is the obvious consequence when an institution abandons its altruistic mission. Surely, this presentation of Ari Richter is a representation of the consequences that many organizations have (and still are) experiencing when giving in to the political winds in this country.

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