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.
David Ian Klein
By David Ian Klein
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Fast Forward Christiane Amanpour compares Trump administration ‘assault on values’ to Kristallnacht
Christiane Amanpour, the long-time foreign correspondent and host of Amanpour on CNN International, compared the Trump administration’s policies to Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that announced Hitler’s policy of violence against Jews, on her show earlier this week. “This week 82 years ago Kristallnacht happened, it was the Nazi’s warning shot across the bow of our…
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Fast Forward Prince Charles, a student of Jonathan Sacks, eulogized him as ‘a light unto this nation’
The British royal described former Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks as “a trusted guide, an inspired teacher and a friend” in a eulogy he wrote for the United Kingdom’s Jewish News. “Over many years, I had come to value Rabbi Sacks’s counsel immensely,” wrote Prince Charles. “With his seemingly inexhaustible store of learning, his never-failing wisdom…
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Fast Forward 8 peacekeepers dead in helicopter crash over Sinai
Six Americans, one French and one Czech citizen died in a helicopter crash while flying over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula Thursday in the area of Sharm el-Sheikh. The group were part of the Multinational Force and Observers, which says that they have no reason to believe the crash was anything other than an accident, the Times…
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Fast Forward ‘Rise up red zones:’ Businesses hurt by virus shutdown implore Brooklynites to shop local
An initiative by the Flatbush Jewish Community Coalition is calling on Brooklyn residents to support local small businesses in largely Jewish neighborhoods that were,until recently, designated “red zones,” under New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s COVID-19 policies. “After struggling through a difficult red zone shut down, shopping local has never been more important to us,” said…
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Fast Forward One of the last Jews in Yemen is a prisoner. The U.S. is trying to get him released.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on Yemen’s Houthi militia to release a Yemeni Jew they’ve held prisoner for four years, in a statement released Tuesday Houthi rebels in Yemen continue to persecute religious minorities. Levi Salem Musa Marhabi, a member of Yemen’s Jewish community, has endured four years of wrongful detention. We call for his immediate release. — Secretary Pompeo…
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Fast Forward Hasidic WhatsApp rewrites ‘Dayenu’ as an elegy for Trump
“Had he only reduced funding to the Palestinians and not cut off funding to UNRWA, it would have sufficed us,” reads a rewrite of the traditional passover song, Dayenu, that has been going around Hasidic WhatsApp groups. A version of Dayenu rewritten to be about Trump is going around Hasidic WhatsApp. It names the commutation…
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Fast Forward Ezekiel Emanuel, tapped for Biden’s coronavirus task force, has controversial views on aging
Joe Biden’s consideration of former White House chief of staff and Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel for a cabinet position has triggered complaints, and so has the appointment of Rahm’s brother Ezekiel as a member of the coronavirus advisory board. An renowned oncologist and bioethicist, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel chairs the medical ethics department at the University…
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Fast Forward Laura Loomer’s favorite social network soars after Facebook shuts down ‘Stop the Steal’
Parler, a social networking site that bills itself as “the free speech social network” has hit the top of both Apple and Google app store download charts in the wake of Joe Biden’s electoral victory, called by news media on Saturday. Though exact numbers are not clear, the site’s founder posted on the site that…
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