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News What ultimate Frisbee can teach us about Jon Ossoff
It’s a muggy day in Atlanta, sometime in 2004 or 2005. Jon Ossoff takes off toward the disc. He’s sprinting, but it stays just out of reach. So he digs a cleat into the ground and throws himself forward horizontally, a lithe streak in flight. Faster in air than on foot, Ossoff gets his fingers…
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News Hasidic Brooklyn’s child matchmaker is under investigation
Read this article in Yiddish During a Hasidic teenager’s first day at a new Brooklyn yeshiva last year, the head of the school approached him to talk about arranging his marriage. “He told me, ‘Wow, you’re so cute. You’re going to find a girl fast,’” said the former student, who spoke on the condition of…
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News She was a Jewish QAnon supporter. And she thinks it could happen to you.
The meme that sent Melissa Rein Lively fully into the universe of QAnon was about the Holocaust. “I’ll never forget the image,” she said in a recent interview. “The meme that I saw that changed everything for me was a picture of Jews basically being put on a boxcar with masks, saying, ‘First they put…
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Nazi-collaborator monuments How many monuments honor fascists, Nazis and murderers of Jews? You’ll be shocked.
Editor’s note: Since this article was originally published on Jan. 26, 2021, a town in Belgium has voted to remove a sculpture honoring Latvian collaborators with the Nazis. The Forward has also documented more than 1,000 additional streets named for and monuments honoring such dubious figures –- 625 in countries that were on our original…
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News A guide to the extremists and hate groups that invaded the Capitol
As photos and videos of the insurrection at the Capitol trickled out of Washington, D.C., a pattern emerged — well-known antisemites and their symbols were at the uprising or cheering it on from afar. That guy’s hoodie says “Camp Auschwitz.” https://t.co/I2hwHZ1MsD — Matt Ford (@fordm) January 6, 2021 Here’s a guide to some of the…
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