Lilly Maier is a news intern at the Forward. She is a graduate journalism student at New York University, where she studies as a Fulbright scholar. She also holds a B.A. in Jewish history from the University of Munich.
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A woman in Michigan came home last week to find a swastika painted on her door. Instead of despairing, she decided to fight back – with love and magic lifted from the pages of a beloved Harry Potter book. Last week, Erin Zettle posted a public message on Facebook describing the hateful attack. “There was…
Ivanka Trump’s clothing line will no longer be sold at Nordstrom. The announcement came after a months-long campaign to boycott Trump labels and retailers selling them. “We make buying decisions based on performance,” a Nordstrom spokesperson told Racked, but avoided giving a (political) reason for why people aren’t buying the brand anymore. “Each year we…
Just like her father, Ivanka Trump pledged to resign from all her positions in the family business. But so far, she hasn’t filed the paperwork, a ProPublica investigation found. “I will take a formal leave of absence from The Trump Organization and my eponymous apparel and accessories brand,” Ivanka Trump wrote in a Facebook post…
In his first public appearance after signing his controversial executive order that effectively issued a Muslim ban, President Donald Trump didn’t spend too much time defending himself. Instead he was busy mocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. “I noticed Chuck Schumer yesterday with the fake tears,” Trump told reporters on Monday during a meeting with…
Hundreds of refugees, immigrants and even legal U.S. residents were detained this past weekend following President Trump’s controversial travel ban. Most of the people affected were Muslims, but the ban hit Jews, too. One of them was Manny Dahari, a Yemeni Jew who saved his whole family from their native land. He has a green…
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer cried during a press conference condemning President Trump’s Muslim ban on Sunday. Trump’s executive order bans refugees and immigrants from Muslim countries from entering the U.S. Schumer spoke surrounded by recently resettled Syrian refugees and an Iraqi man who served the U.S. Army for 10 years, and just made it…
The magnitude of the Women’s March on Washington took Jewish participants, like many others, by surprise. Organized groups of Jewish protestors had planned to meet on a street corner not far from the rally’s staging point and march together with the rest of the huge throng. But as they got closer to the National Mall,…
“I am here because Women’s rights are humans rights,” said Rachel, 59, (left), who came to the Washington, D.C. march with a big group of Jewish women. The Metro trains into Washington, D.C. from the suburbs were packed with pink pussy hats. Friends smile as the crowd gathers at the Women’s March on Washington, the…
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