David Ian Klein covers breaking news and international Jewish communities for the Forward. You can reach him at Klein@forward.com and on Twitter @davidianklein.
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By David Ian Klein
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Fast Forward Hundreds gathered maskless for celebration at Chabad headquarters
Despite the ongoing pandemic, hundreds gathered maskless Thursday night at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood to celebrate Chof Daled Teves, a Chabad holiday. The gathering was revealed by Collive, an online outlet which covers the Chabad community. The news site published pictures showing the farbrengen, a type of gathering specific to Chabad…
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Fast Forward Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s attorney general, targets D.C. rioters
Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Jewish attorney general has set his office’s sights on Washington,D.C. rioters, he announced in a recent tweet. My office knows the difference between protest and violence. If you organized a plan to carry out yesterday’s illegal attack on our country from Pennsylvania, and we have evidence you participated, we will use every…
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Fast Forward Schumer joins call to oust Trump via 25th Amendment
Sen. Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat poised to take over as the Senate’s first Jewish Majority Leader, on Thursday called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th amendment in order to remove President Donald Trump from power. The quickest and most effective way—it can be done today—to remove this president from office…
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Fast Forward Florida Congresswoman announces she’ll be taunting Rashida Tlaib with Israeli flag
Rep. Kat Cammack, a new Republican congresswoman from Florida, announced on Twitter Wednesday that she plans to use the emblem of the state of Israel to taunt her new office neighbor, Rep. Rashida Tlaib. Rep. Tlaib, who has an office right next to mine in DC, has some strong opinions about Israel that I ?…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum condemns Congress member who said ‘Hitler was right’ about one thing
Amid the chaos that unfolded at the Capitol Wednesday, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum spoke out against newly elected Rep. Mary Miller, an Illinois Republican, who invoked Adolf Hitler at at a rally. “Hitler was right on one thing.” Miller said to those gathered at the so-called Moms for America rally on Tuesday. “Whoever…
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Fast Forward A century after Leo Frank, Jewish Twitter reacts to the first Jewish Senator from the Deep South since reconstruction
The Associated Press has called the the two contests for Georgia’s senate in favor of the Rev. Raphael Warnock, and Jon Ossoff, both democratic candidates. Ossoff — who became the first Jewish Senator from the Deep South since Reconstruction — already declared victory in a thank-you video to his voters Wednesday morning. Jon @Ossoff just…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz survivor among the first vaccinated in hometown of Pfizer’s CEO
Zana Sadikario-Saatsoglou, a Thessalonikan Jew and Holocaust survivor, became one of the first people in Greece to receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday. 98-year-old Sadikario-Saatsoglou received the vaccine at Thessaloniki’s Saul Modiano Old Age Home, which serves its Jewish community. Greece received nearly 10,000 doses of the vaccine in late December and began rolling them…
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Fast Forward Proud Boys Leader arrested in D.C. for burning Black Lives Matter banner
Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys, a group of self proclaimed “western chauvinists” who often border on white supremacy and antisemitism, was taken into custody by Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department Monday. Tarrio leads the group that President Donald Trump told to stand back and stand by during a debate with President-Elect Biden in…
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