David Ian Klein covers breaking news and international Jewish communities for the Forward. You can reach him at [email protected] and on Twitter @davidianklein.
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By David Ian Klein
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Fast Forward That Jewish fisherman running for U.S. Senate in Alaska is tightening the race
Born in the wake of an avalanche, he bought his first fishing boat at 14, has sailed through arctic gales, and killed a grizzly bear in self-defense, oh, and he’s a doctor too. It’s not a dating profile, it’s how Dr. Al Gross, a Jewish candidate for senator of Alaska presents himself in one of…
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Fast Forward A rabbi called them bullies. Now St. Louis ‘gun couple’ faces indictment.
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple who pointed loaded guns, fingers on the trigger, at Black Lives Matter protesters who marched through their neighborhood, have been indicted by a grand jury for exhibiting firearms and tampering with evidence, The Associated Press reported. The McCloskeys have in the past also come into conflict with…
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Fast Forward Heshy Tischler has a ‘snitch list’ for journalists and critics he wants to be quiet
Heshy Tischler, an aspiring politician and the de facto leader of the protest movement which has spread through Orthodox Brooklyn the past two nights in response to New York’s new COVID-19 restrictions, told reporters that he has a “moser” list. “Moser” is a Hebrew term for one who informs on the Jewish community to outside…
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Fast Forward Trump compares NYC’s attempt to break up Orthodox street party to Holocaust
Sharing a Tweet from James Woods, which mentioned “rounding up the Jews” and accused Mayor De Blasio of antisemitism, the president insinuated that the NYPD’s attempts to break up an Orthodox gathering in Crown Heights for the Sukkot holiday Monday night were reminiscent of the Holocaust. “I am the only thing in the Radical Left’s…
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News Jewish Twitter tried to pray for Trump, but Stephen Miller’s diagnosis generates only jokes
While a debate broke out among liberal Jews on Twitter, as to whether they should pray for the president of the United States after his positive COVID-19 diagnosis, nobody in those circles seems to have any such qualms about his senior aide, Stephen Miller. Widely known as the architect of the Trump administration’s anti-immigration policies,…
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Fast Forward After long debate, Israel manages to pass ban on fur by making an exception for shtreimels
Gila Gamliel, Israel’s minister of environmental protection, called the selling of animal furs for fashion “immoral,” according to the BBC, and said that her ministry would only grant sale permits for certain reasons — scientific research, education and instruction or religion. That likely means that shtreimels, the fur hats made from sable and fox tails…
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Fast Forward Watch: NYPD tries to shut down Sukkot street party in Crown Heights
The NYPD clashed with Orthodox Jews last night when the officers came to break up a big Sukkot gathering in Crown Heights, a video shared on Twitter showed. before pic.twitter.com/yjFTPYFzuu — Paul Lupario (@paulloops) October 6, 2020 In another video taken earlier in the night, hundreds could be seen celebrating the Sukkot holiday by dancing…
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Culture Dr. Harvey Alter’s Nobel Prize is the success of Jewish America
The announcement that Dr. Harvey Alter will share the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine with two other physicians for their discovery of hepatitis C will resonate with the families of Jewish doctors around the world — and there are quite a few of those. Alter of course isn’t the first Jewish doctor to win a…
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