Benyamin Cohen is a senior writer at the Forward. Follow him on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, and sign up for his morning newsletter, Forwarding the News, which gets you caught up on all the Jewish news to know each day. He is the author of two books, My Jesus Year and The Einstein Effect, and has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post. He lives with his wife in West Virginia with their three dogs, a cat and a flock of chickens known as the Co-Hens.
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Jewish camp settles sexual assault lawsuit, school board member quotes Hitler, recordings of a young Barbra Streisand restored, and that time Kanye West called for a 'Christian Kibbutz' movement
Dr. Oz sued over list of Jewish donors, Obama denounces antisemitic conspiracy theories, why a TikTok star went to Auschwitz, the strange saga of Apple's new Yiddish keyboard, and much more.
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Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate played a spy in an anti-abortion movie about the Holocaust. Plus: NBA star apologizes for antisemitic tweet, Hasidic sects split over N.Y. election & Fiddler turns 51.
Bomb scare at Michigan Jewish day school, New Orleans gift shop selling Hitler figurines, Kroger settles religious discrimination lawsuit and the Forward detective agency is open for business.
What Black Jews think about Kanye, GOP candidate penned book about Anne Frank finding Jesus, Jewish leaders gather in Chicago, and the Post Office unveils a Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamp.
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