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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Forwarding the News Israeli elections, Kanye news, Musk’s Twitter takeover and a Jewish Halloween
Wife of Penn. gubernatorial candidate say they love Israel 'more than a lot of Jews do.' Plus: NBA star promotes antisemitic film, 7 Jewish essays about Halloween, and King Charles the Shabbos goy.
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Fast Forward Kanye West suggests Jewish doctor may have wanted to kill him
The rapper said his mental health issues were ‘misdiagnosed’ by a Jewish doctor, and that he could have ended up like Michael Jackson and Prince
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Forwarding the News The secret Jewish history of the World Series + What Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover means for antisemitism on the platform
Kanye wanted to name an album after Hitler, 45% of Americans say U.S. should be Christian nation, DeSantis campaign embraces Jews and antisemites, and Anthony Hopkins plays zayde in new film.
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Forwarding the News ‘If anything, it’s deepened my faith in my faith’ says Tree of Life survivor
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News Postcard from Pittsburgh, on the 4th anniversary of Tree of Life massacre
For Barry Werber, a survivor of the deadliest antisemitic attack in American history, memory is a blessing and curse
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Forwarding the News Special report: We spent a year tracking antisemitism on one college campus. What we found may surprise you.
Jewish educator severs ties with Kanye West, Israeli president visits D.C., yeshiva boys attacked in Brooklyn, Chuck Schumer's Yiddish ad, and the secret Jewish history of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
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Forwarding the News Adidas severs ties to Kanye West + YU creates new LGBTQ student club, still won’t recognize old one
Yeshiva fined $8M for defrauding government, Kanye fallout continues, HBO to air antisemitism documentary, NBA now has kippah-wearing player, world's largest Einstein museum to open in Israel.
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Fast Forward World’s largest Einstein museum to open in Israel
The building will house 85,000 documents, Einstein’s Nobel Prize and the original theory of relativity
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