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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News A Jewish chef brings kosher deli to Memphis — and thrives
The year 2020 has been a brutal one for the restaurant and catering industry — unless you happen to own a small, kosher catering company in Memphis, Tennessee. , Marisa Baggett, the Jewish founder of Zayde’s NYC Deli, enters her second high holiday season looking back on a year filled with struggle and who-would-have-thought-it success….
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Fast Forward Department of Homeland Security exaggerated ‘antifa’ to downplay white supremacy: whistleblower
Brian Murphy, an employee in the Department of Homeland Security, has accused the department’s leadership of retaliating against him for refusing to soft-pedal a report on white supremacy, according to a complaint filed Tuesday. Ken Cuccinelli, a Trump appointee and deputy secretary of Homeland Security, allegedly ordered Murphy in March to change the section on…
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Fast Forward Is Birthright too late? New program to fund pre-college Israel trips
A new program will lower the cost of Israel trips for high school students by about $3,000 in order to give them that experience before they get to college — not during or after, as Birthright does. The Jewish Education Project will lead the RootOne initiative, which will subsidize trips by five Jewish youth groups…
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News Synagogue vandal in Racine, Wis. called it ‘Operation Kristallnacht’
The trial of a young man accused of vandalizing a synagogue has revealed the thought process behind a neo-Nazi group’s decision last fall to accelerate its activities. Yousef Omar Barasneh, 22, a member of the group known as the Base, pleaded guilty last month to spray-painting anti-Semitic messages and swastikas on the walls of the…
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News Their beloved Chabad house destroyed, University of Delaware students vow to rebuild, bigger
Jewish students at the University of Delaware whose Chabad house went up in flames have made their fundraising and rebuilding goals more ambitious after an initial success. In less than a week, their GoFundMe raised more than $500,000 to rebuild what they called the “little blue house,” which was destroyed in a possible act of…
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News Jewish students: Hillel, Chabad key to comfort on unwelcoming campuses
Only about a quarter of Jewish students surveyed found their campuses to be welcoming of religious diversity, according to The Interfaith Diversity Experiences and Attitudes Longitudinal Survey, a small study published last week by a nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation on campus. On the other hand, more than 80% of Jewish students said they felt…
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Fast Forward RNC speaker criticized for several actions seen as dogwhistles to alt-right
A day after the last-minute ouster of a scheduled speaker at the Republican National Convention due to accusations of antisemitic Twitter activity, another guest is also attracting criticism. Madison Cawthorn, 24, is the Republican nominee in a solid-red North Carolina congressional district. He has also garnered attention for a series of posts and actions that…
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Fast Forward When it comes to rabbis scheduled to speak, it’s DNC 2, RNC 0
The Democratic National Convention last week prominently featured not just one, but two rabbis. But so far, no rabbinic representation has been announced in the publicly-available schedule for the Republican National Convention, which began Monday morning. The absence this year is conspicuous as Republican leaders hope to lean on the Trump administration’s pro-Israel policies in…
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