Molly Boigon is an investigative reporter at the Forward. Contact her at boigon@forward.com or follow her on Twitter @MollyBoigon.
Molly Boigon
By Molly Boigon
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News Who said it when? A timeline of the term ‘apartheid’ in relation to Israel
Human Rights Watch weighed in this week on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by using the term “apartheid” in its report on conditions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. For some, the term justifiably assigns a harsh label to a harsh reality of oppression and occupation. For others, it’s an overstatement that has dangerous implications…
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News A Jewish police officer weighs in on the Chauvin verdict
George Floyd’s murder and police officer Derek Chauvin’s conviction for the crime have sparked conversations all over the United States and the world about whether police are biased against Black and brown Americans and perpetuate white supremacy. Caught in the middle are some white Jewish police officers, a minority within the force both committed to…
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Fast Forward FBI charges Lev Tahor leaders with child exploitation
New York’s FBI and U.S. Attorney’s offices have charged five leaders of Lev Tahor, a Jewish cult, with child exploitation after the men kidnapped a 14-year-old girl in 2018, the Department of Justice said in a press release Monday. Nachman Helbrans, Mayer Rosner, Yakov Weingarten, Shmiel Weingarten and Yoil Weingarten brought the girl from New…
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News With Madoff gone, have Jewish nonprofits learned lessons from the past?
When Bernie Madoff was arrested in December of 2008, the panic in the Jewish philanthropic world was palpable. “We are shocked at this revelation,” Yeshiva University said at the time to the Jewish Telegraph Agency. It had lost $100 million. “This one just leaves me breathless,” Mort Zuckerman told NPR. He lost $30 million. “I…
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News Why Borough Park has NYC’s lowest vaccination rates
Borough Park, the Orthodox enclave in Brooklyn that was an early hotspot for COVID-19 cases and deaths last year, now has the lowest portion of fully vaccinated people of any New York City neighborhood, according to newly released public-health data. Less than 11% of the neighborhood’s population is fully vaccinated, per the city’s health department…
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Fast Forward Former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka is now banned from YouTube
YouTube has banned the channel of former Donald Trump aide Sebastian Gorka for violating the platform’s policy forbidding disinformation about the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, a spokesperson told MSN. A YouTube spokesperson tells @Salon: “We terminated the channel America First with Sebastian Gorka, for repeated violations of our presidential election integrity policy.” pic.twitter.com/KiUTGyEUwa…
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News Goodbye and oy vey, Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers, the pioneering online question-and-answer platform, will shut down permanently this May, forever erasing from the internet one of the original places for people to solicit unverified information from strangers. What was once an actually useful and occasionally thoughtful place for users to ask questions ultimately became yet another internet punchline, with greatest hits…
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Fast Forward Jewish Press editor attended the Capitol siege
The chief editor of the Jewish Press, an Orthodox newspaper in New York, attended the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, POLITICO reported after reviewing video footage of the attack. Elliot Resnick, who interviewed the lawyer defending former President Donald Trump in February, has been a longtime supporter of Trump. He wrote a personal essay for the…
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