David Ian Klein covers breaking news and international Jewish communities for the Forward. You can reach him at [email protected] and on Twitter @davidianklein.
David Ian Klein
By David Ian Klein
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Fast Forward Ingraham likens Ossoff and Warnock to the Squad
Just ahead of Tuesday’s contentious runoff elections for Georgia’s two Senate seats, Laura Ingraham of Fox News likened the Democratic challengers, Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock, to the so-called Squad in the House of Representatives. “Warnock and Ossoff will be the Senate version, when you really think about it, of the Squad,” Ingraham…
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Fast Forward ‘Amen and a-woman’ leaves Republicans and Democrats squabbling and Hebrew scholars scratching their heads
Hebrew etymology is trending on Twitter after Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat, ended his opening prayer to the 117th Congress with the phrase “amen and a-woman.” “May the lord lift up the light of his countenance upon us and give us peace — peace in our families, peace in this land and there I…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Challenged on CNN, Ossoff doubles down on attacks on Loeffler
Jon Ossoff, the Jewish Democrat trying to oust one of two United States Senators in Georgia’s runoff elections on Tuesday, doubled down on his accusations that Sen. Kelly Loeffler is dangerously racist during a CNN appearance on Sunday. Though Ossoff is technically running against Sen. David Perdue, while the Rev, Raphael Warnock is challenging Loeffler,…
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Fast Forward Ossoff: ‘Kelly Loeffler is campaigning with a klansman.’
Jewish Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff pointed out — several times — on Wednesday to Fox News that Sen. Kelly Loeffler has been keeping company with a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. Loeffler is the incumbent Georgia senator locked in a tight race with Rev. Raphael Warnock; Ossoff is running against the other incumbent,…
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Fast Forward Appeals court rejects Laura Loomer’s conspiracy claim against Muslim group
Laura Loomer, the right-wing political activist and failed Florida congressional candidate, has lost her case against the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Southern District of Florida ruled Wednesday. Loomer, along with her company, Illoominate Media, had sued the Muslim civil rights group under the accusation that they had conspired…
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Fast Forward Lower East Side construction project on site of historic synagogue includes space for congregation
Thanks to a $162 million dollar loan, a construction project on the former site of Beth Hamedrash Hagadol, one of the oldest synagogues in Manhattan, has begun moving forward. Beth Hamedrash Hagadol was the first synagogue founded by Russian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side. It stood for nearly 170 years, from 1850 until…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Flown to Israel in Adelson’s plane, Jonathan Pollard kisses the ground upon arrival
Jonathan Pollard, the U.S. Navy Intelligence analyst who spent three decades in jail as a spy for passing classified intelligence to Israel, has arrived in the Jewish state — where he has long said he wanted to live Pollard and his wife, Esther, landed at Ben Gurion Airport outside of Tel Aviv in the early…
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Fast Forward In southern Italy, the Catholic Church saved Hanukkah
For the Jewish community of Serrastretta, a small town In Italy’s southern Calabria region, it seemed like communal Hanukkah celebrations would be impossible this year — until an unexpected savior came to the rescue. Still recovering from more than 70,000 deaths as one of the world’s early coronavirus hot spots, Italy’s strict social distancing laws…
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