Marie-Rose Sheinerman is a news intern at the Forward. Contact her at sheinerman@forward.com or follow her on Twitter @RoseSheinerman.
Marie-Rose Sheinerman
By Marie-Rose Sheinerman
-
News Student alleges Florida State fostered racist, ‘hostile environment’ toward Palestinians
Just days after he was elected as Student Senate President at Florida State University last summer, Ahmad Daraldik’s past anti-Israel online posts began to circulate among groups of FSU students: a high school website that compared Israel’s actions toward Palestinians to the Holocaust, a Facebook post from when he was 12 years-old calling an Israeli…
-
Fast Forward ADL calls for advertiser boycott of Tucker Carlson’s show on Fox News
The ADL linked their call to Carlson’s promotion of the antisemitic ‘replacement’ conspiracy theory
-
News Jewish groups cheer Chauvin verdict and call for ‘transformational change’
Jewish groups and leaders took to social media following the Derek Chauvin verdict with expressions of relief, joy — and calls for systemic change in the wake of the trial. “Thank God justice has been served in this case,” Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah, a rabbinic organization for human rights, tweeted. “And there’s…
-
News ‘Eager to get back to normal’: Are vaccine passports the key to returning to synagogue?
Last weekend, one Orthodox synagogue in Atlanta launched a new opportunity for congregants. While Congregation Beth Jacob had been holding socially distanced and masked in-person prayer services for months, for those members who have been fully vaccinated, there would now be a chance to join a non-distanced, non-masked minyan. The synagogue is not requiring a…
-
Fast Forward ‘This is my dream’: NASA names two asteroids after Israeli student who discovered them
Two newly found asteroids will be named after an Israeli student at Technion Israel Institute of Technology, according to a press release from the university. Aseel Nama, an undergraduate student in Technion’s biomedical engineering department, participated in a NASA-led month-long asteroid hunting campaign, a competition where teams of “citizen scientists” can enter and parse astronomical…
-
News The pandemic cancelled a year of Birthright trips. That pause may have unexpected side effects.
Over two decades, Birthright Israel delivered more than 750,000 free-of-charge trips to young Jews, but amid the COVID-19 pandemic, like so many organizations, its programming came to halt. More than a year of inactivity and cancellations later, the group is now beginning to think about what a return to normalcy might look like. For Birthright,…
-
News Amid allegations of antisemitism, University of Illinois to offer Jewish-affiliated student housing
As the University of Illinois faces accusations of antisemitism, the campus’s Chabad house has partnered with the university to offer students Jewish-affiliated housing starting next fall, according to the organization’s rabbi. Last July, Illini Chabad purchased a 27,000-square-foot building in the center of campus, originally built as a fraternity house. The bottom two floors of…
-
News In surprise twist, enrollment in many Israel gap year programs ‘skyrocketed’ amid pandemic
When Yale University announced last summer that the 2020-21 academic year would be mostly remote and with heavy restrictions for the fraction of students permitted on campus, Isabel Kalb decided to postpone her first year of college. “I didn’t want to lose my freshman year to the pandemic,” explained Kalb, 19. But after spending the…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
- 2
Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
- 3
Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
- 4
News Your complete guide to Trump’s Jewish advisers and pro-Israel cabinet
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Netanyahu now faces arrest in several Western countries following ICC warrant
-
Film & TV Bonhoeffer biopic tells of a pastor turned would-be Hitler assassin — but is the story true?
-
News What Mike Huckabee’s ‘Kids Guide to Israel’ says about his views
-
Opinion I’m a rabbi in Columbus. Here’s my answer to the neo-Nazis
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
