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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Lilly Maier
By Lilly Maier
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Fast Forward Did Twitter Suspend a Jewish Activist for Complaining About Anti-Semitism?
Imagine getting a tweet with your face on a lampshade. You report the picture to Twitter as anti-Semitic harassment — and Twitter responds by suspending your account, not those of your trolls. That’s what activist Alexandra Brodsky says happened to her. The fellow at the National Women’s Law Center, an advocacy group for women, tweeted…
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Fast Forward Did Ari Emanuel Help Trump Hide Damning Miss Universe Videos?
Hollywood super-agent Ari Emanuel might have helped Donald Trump keep damning Miss Universe tapes quiet, according to the Daily Beast. Emanuel was an outspoken supporter and fundraiser for Barack Obama and his brother Rahm served in Obama’s administration before becoming mayor of Chicago. But the powerful Hollywood agent was also close with Trump and represented…
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Fast Forward Mark Cuban Advises Trump to Invest $100 Billion in Robotics
Billionaire Mark Cuban, once a fierce critic of Donald Trump, is now offering free advice to the President-elect: spend $100 billion in robotics. In a blog post, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks suggested that Trump take the money from the $1 trillion he promised to spend on infrastructure. Cuban wrote that China, Korea and…
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News After David Wichs’s Tragic Death, New York Tightens Crane Rules
A crane collapse that killed David Wichs last February was a result of human error, according to a report released this month by New York City. It’s the latest development in a bitter dispute between city officials, builders and Wichs’s widow over crane security and the city’s liability for his death. Wichs, a trader and…
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News A Year After Death, ‘Angel’ Daniella Moffson Inspires Outpouring of Emotion — and Giving
In the year since Daniella Moffson’s tragic death, many of her friends – and even some complete strangers – have been honoring her memory by raising money for causes she cared about. Moffson, 21, was one of three people killed in a bus crash in Honduras last January when the vehicle, which carried 25 Columbia…
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News In Germany, You Can ‘Rent a Jew’ to Fight Anti-Semitism
100,000 Jews live in Germany, and it’s the country with the world’s fastest-growing Jewish community. But many Germans have never – consciously – met a Jew. There’s a new project wants to change that: Rent a Jew. The Munich-based European Janusz Korczak Academy launched the project, which aims to bring together Jews and non-Jews in…
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Breaking News Yeshiva U. Students Slam Ben Shapiro for Calling Transgender People ‘Mentally Ill’
Ben Shapiro’s speech at Yeshiva University in which he called transgender people mentally ill and mocked the political left drew strong criticism from some students. While many in the crowd at Monday night’s event cheered the right-wing pundit’s barbs, others said that his remarks left a bad taste in their mouth — and reflected poorly…
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Culture On Cult German Show, Real Rabbi Officiates TV Bar Mitzvah
If you walk through a German-speaking town next Sunday night, the odds are that the streets will literally be empty as people stay at home to watch a bar mitzvah on TV. For Germans and Austrians like me, “Tatort” (“Crime Scene”) is the holy grail of television. It’s the German equivalent of “Game of Thrones,”…
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