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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German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives for failing to react to the onslaught of hate speech on their platform as well as for not deleting posts denying the Holocaust. European countries like Germany have much stricter laws against hate speech than the United States. German law requires Facebook Germany to delete…
While only Americans can vote tomorrow, there is a lot of stake for the rest of the world as well. So a German man living in the U.S. created a meme to warn Americans of the dangers of electing a demagogue. The letter went viral over the weekend and was shared widely using the hashtag…
In the last decade, scandals involving kosher slaughter have led to dramatic improvements in the industry. But both the U.S. and Israel continue to import beef certified as glatt kosher that is slaughtered in ways that animal welfare experts condemn as inhumane and cruel. Kosher meat production plants in the South American nations of Uruguay,…
How did Americans react to the November Pogroms? What were their thoughts on the annexation of Austria? How much did they know about Auschwitz? These are just some of the questions that History Unfolded, a crowdsourcing project by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, seeks to answer. In the past, historians have done extensive research…
In Utah, the presidential ticket of Evan McMullin (a Mormon) and Mindy Finn (a Jew) has a real shot at winning the state. During our reporting on this, we found that there are a lot of Mormons who really like Jews. So why do have Mormons a soft spot for Jews? “Mormons feel a great…
A Mormon and a Jew walk into a bar. What sounds like the beginning of a joke is an important political reality in 2016 — at least in Utah. Last month, independent candidate Evan McMullin chose Mindy Finn as his running mate. Finn is a veteran GOP strategist who runs a feminist non-profit. The Texan…
An 85-year old Jewish woman was mugged near her apartment in Forest Hills, Queens, Sunday night. Barbara Kupferberg was attacked around 7 p.m. on her way back from the Forest Hills Jewish Center. She says a man approached her from behind, grabbed her bag and ran away. The mugging was first reported by the New…
A group of Muslims prayed in a synagogue at the Ben Gurion airport, apparently mistaking it for a mosque. They also used Jewish shawls as prayer mats. The five Turkish tourists immediately stopped and apologized after they were made aware of their mistake. Video of the family praying was released by Facebook user Yossi Cohen…
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