Dave Goldiner is the Forward’s director of digital media. Dave is a veteran journalist who has spent two decades working at newspapers in the United States and Africa. A native New Yorker, Goldiner wrote for the New York Daily News, where he covered some of the biggest stories of our time, including the attacks of September 11, along with thousands of stories of hope and heartbreak. He also studied and worked in Southern Africa and has written for publications in South Africa and Zimbabwe. He holds masters degrees in journalism and public administration from Columbia University. Dave can be reached at goldiner@forward.com, or follow him on Twitter @davegoldiner
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President Barack Obama praised Jews for supporting religious freedom at his final White House Hanukkah party — and did his best to ignore the man who will succeed him. “The first chapter of the Hanukkah story was written 22 centuries ago, when rulers banned religious rituals and persecuted Jews who dared to observe their faith,”…
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Fania Blakay and her brother Gennadi Band thought their Polish family perished in the Holocaust. So did Henia Moskowitz and Rywka Patchnik. Turns out all four Polish cousins were wrong — and they held a joyous reunion to prove it, JTA reported. “I am deeply moved and very happy,” Blakay said, according to a statement…
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Fast Forward Is Anti-Semitism ‘Cost of Doing Business’ for Reporters in Trump Era?
Glenn Thrush is moving to The New York Times — and the crackerjack journalist insists the anti-Semitic abuse his wife bared in the Forward won’t stop him from covering Donald Trump’s White House fairly. Thrush, who signed on with the Gray Lady after eight years at Politico, was one of many reporters who suffered vicious…
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Breaking News Ivanka Trump Gives $1K to Project in Memory of Brooklyn Shabbat Fire Children
Ivanka Trump has reportedly donated $1,000 to help build a community center on the Brooklyn site where 7 Orthodox children died in a fire started by a hot plate left on during Shabbat. The soon-to-be first daughter made the donationi Friday to the GoFundMe page for what has been dubbed “The Sassoon 7 Project,” DNAInfo…
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Breaking News Bill Kristol Steps Down as Editor of Weekly Standard
Bill Kristol, the Jewish neoconservative who famously led opposition to Donald Trump, has stepped down from his post as editor of the Weekly Standard after 21 years. Kristol will continue to write for the magazine as an editor at large. Kristol helped found the Weekly Standard and built it into the preeminent intellectual voice of…
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Breaking News Richard Spencer Back on Twitter — Ban Had Nothing To Do With Hate Speech
Richard Spencer, the white supremacist leader of the so-called ‘alt-right,’ is Tweeting again — after Twitter reinstated his personal account. I’m back. pic.twitter.com/ngfq4aHWtc — Richard ? Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) December 11, 2016 It turns out the social media platform didn’t bounce Spencer, the self-described ‘Karl Marx of the alt-right,’ for spewing hatred against Jews and others…
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