Louis Keene is a reporter for the Forward. His work has also been published in The New York Times, New York Magazine and VICE. He is based in Los Angeles and can be followed on Twitter @thislouis.
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By Louis Keene
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News After Texas synagogue siege, rabbis wonder: welcome the stranger, or lock the doors?
For some American rabbis, 'being a fortress is not in the cards.'
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Fast Forward Watching livestream, Colleyville cantor heard rabbi try to make peace with his captor
Cytron-Walker appeared to be trying to calm down the man holding him hostage.
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News After student rape allegation, YU restructures office handling sexual misconduct
Months after a Yeshiva University student accused a member of its celebrated basketball team of rape and university officials of mishandling her complaint, the school has restructured its office for handling sexual harassment and assault. Undergraduate Dean Karen Bacon announced the changes in a letter to students this week, saying they had been prompted by…
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Culture On TikTok, she offers a spicy daily take on Talmud
In one of many oddball stories in the Talmud, the commentary on the Hebrew Bible, we’re told about an ancient diss: one rabbi tells another rabbi that his voice is so bad that if the Holy Temple were still standing, he wouldn’t be allowed to sing in it. As Miriam Anzovin puts it in her…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi who mailed threats to Jewish press gets 7 years
A Neo-Nazi leader who led a multi-state plot to intimidate journalists and others who worked to expose antisemitic activity has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison. A federal jury convicted Kaleb Cole, a leader of Atomwaffen Division based in Washington state, on one count of interfering with freedom of religion, three counts of…
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News She defended disgraced author Chaim Walder. Now a revered rebbetzin is facing a backlash of her own.
The recent revelation of acclaimed children’s author Chaim Walder’s decades of sexual abuse has prompted a reckoning in the Orthodox community, or at least calls for one. It also prompted a prominent Haredi rebbetzin and scholar, Tziporah Heller, to write an impassioned Facebook post decrying those who shamed Walder and vilifying the reporter who first…
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News In court for mobbing the Capitol, they compared themselves to persecuted Jews
One of the defining images of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots was a protester wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt leading the charge into the Senate chamber. Neo-Nazis and other white supremacist groups were heavily represented in the crowd that day. One insurrectionist was even dressed up as Adolf Hitler. Yet when the rioters had their…
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News ‘Hero’ rabbi in Chabad of Poway shooting gets jail time
In a stunning decision, a federal judge sentenced former Chabad of Poway rabbi Yisroel Goldstein to 14 months in prison for tax and wire fraud on Tuesday, overriding prosecutors’ sentencing recommendations of house arrest and providing a measure of relief to a community still reeling from a deadly shooting at the synagogue in 2019. Federal…
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