David Ian Klein covers breaking news and international Jewish communities for the Forward. You can reach him at Klein@forward.com and on Twitter @davidianklein.
David Ian Klein
By David Ian Klein
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Fast Forward From Mark Cuban, a mitzvah: Mavericks owner helps former player into rehab
Mark Cuban, the Jewish billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, interceded to get an NBA legend and former Maverick who had fallen on hard times back on his feet — for the second time. Last week, pictures surfaced of Delonte West, who played point guard for the Mavericks, homeless and panhandling on the street…
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Fast Forward ‘Too many Cohens:’ Spotify should remove French rapper, Wiesenthal Center says
The Simon Wiesenthal center called on Spotify to remove Freeze Corleone, a French rapper known for his antisemitic lyrics, from their platform in a statement released Friday. In a letter sent by the Wiesenthal Center’s president, Shimon Samuels to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, Samuels argued that “Freeze Corleone’s malicious hatred can kill and is not…
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News This Yom Kippur, Istanbul’s Karaites look back on a proud past and forward into an uncertain future
Will one of Judaism’s oldest communities survive another generation? For the past two years, the Karaite Qahal in Istanbul’s Haskoy neighborhood has been almost empty for the High Holidays. This Yom Kippur will likely be no different. For an overwhelmingly elderly community, the novel coronavirus pandemic hasn’t helped, nor has the fact that in 2017,…
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Fast Forward UAE’s first kosher restaurant opens in world’s tallest building — on the ground floor
Armani/Kaf, a 40-seat kosher meat restaurant, will open this month in the Burj Khalifa under the supervision of Rabbi Levi Duchman, who lives in Dubai. The restaurant will be on the ground floor of the world’s tallest building where the Armani hotel has other dining options, and will also offer room service in the Armani…
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Fast Forward Trump praises “racehorse theory” at Minnesota rally
At a campaign rally in Minnesota on Saturday, President Donald Trump waxed poetic about the Minnesotan gene pool in language that, according to Holocaust experts, came eerily close to endorsing eugenics. “You have good genes, you know that, right? You have good genes. A lot of it is about genes, isn’t it, don’t you believe?”…
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Fast Forward Jewish Twitter claps back at Christian-inflected condolences for RBG
Twitter users who applied seemingly Christian terminology and concepts to the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg came under fire over the weekend, as Jewish internet users and their allies struggled to process the death of the Jewish Supreme Court justice. Some questioned the use of the term “RIP,” which is used in many Christian services…
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News Her Majesty’s Government hands down six coronavirus dos and dont’s— from shofar to sukkah
No dancing, sukkah “crawls” or shared shofars, said Her Majesty’s Government — among other decrees handed down on Monday. British Jews have received an extensive list of don’ts and dos for this year’s High Holiday season, covering Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and the festivals of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. The list was released…
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News A rabbi’s 3000-mile Turkish odyssey, in the name of kashrut
Kosher offerings on supermarket shelves in America and Israel might have looked differently this High Holiday season had Rabbi Mendy Chitrik not undertaken a 3000 mile trip around Anatolia, Turkey’s Asian portion, this summer. While it may come as a surprise, despite only 15,000 Jews in the country, Turkey is a major supplier of kosher…
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