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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News As Israel and Morocco finalize peace deal, the UN confirms its position on Western Sahara is unchanged
Just as Israeli and Moroccan leaders came together in Rabat with President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner to finalize the peace deal he helped broker, the U.N. Security Council met in New York to discuss the status of Western Sahara. U.S. recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed swath of Northwest Africa was one…
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Fast Forward Bulgarian Jewish community condemns antisemitic vandalism at synagogue
Over the weekend, vandals claiming to belong to Antifa Bulgaria painted a synagogue in the country with graffiti reading “free Palestine” and equated the Israeli government with the Nazi regime. The target of the vandals was Bulgaria’s oldest synagogue, the Zion Synagogue in Plovdiv, a city on Bulgaria’s border with Turkey. Shalom, an organization that…
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Fast Forward New York garbage men help Williamsburg Jews go on an hours long tefillin hunt
A group of Brooklyn Jews went on an extended dumpster dive Monday night in a hunt for a sacred object: a pair of tefillin that had been accidentally discarded. The leather straps and boxes that Orthodox Jewish men wear to prayer, which contain holy scriptures, were noticed missing on Thursday according to NBC New York….
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Fast Forward Ivanka goes to Georgia to campaign for Loeffler and Perdue
The White House responded to President-elect Joe Biden’s trip to Georgia to campaign for Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock with a headliner of their own. The president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, arrived in the state on Monday, where she spoke at a rally for Republican incumbents Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue ahead…
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Fast Forward Chief rabbi of the Western Wall honors Jared Kushner
In what may be one of the last opportunities for members of the Israeli Rabbinate to offer accolades to senior Trump administration officials while they are still in power, Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, chief rabbi of the Western Wall, honored Jared Kushner in a ceremony on Monday. The rabbi thanked the president’s Jewish son-in-law and senior…
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Fast Forward Melania Trump referred to Jared and Ivanka as ‘snakes,’ says a former aide
First Lady Melania Trump called Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, President Trump’s Jewish daughter and son-in-law, “snakes,” according to her former aide, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. Wolkoff, who has written a tell-all book about her time working for the first lady, “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady,” revealed…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Belgian Jewish students respond to train antisemitism with message of tolerance
Members of Belgium’s Union of Jewish Students boarded trains in the country last Thursday to offer passengers a message of tolerance. “We would like to wish the Jews, but also all other people present on this train who are discriminated against on the basis of their culture, their religion, their gender, their sexual orientation or…
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Fast Forward German court convicts Halle synagogue shooter
Stephan Balliet, the 28-year-old neo-Nazi who opened fire on a German synagogue on Yom Kippur in 2019, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday. During his trial, Balliet acknowledged that his intent was to murder the 51 Jewish worshippers inside Halle’s synagogue, ABC reported. However, he…
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