Josh Nathan-Kazis is a staff writer for the Forward. He covers charities and politics, and writes investigations and longform.
He tried to become a Spanish citizen, tracked down family secrets in backwoods Maine and dug through $26 billion of charity data.
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The Jewish community ravaged by a white supremacist massacre late last year is raising money for the Christchurch, New Zealand victims of the latest episode of white supremacist violence. The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, which serves the community where a white supremacist killed 11 Jews in a synagogue in October, created an emergency relief…
For the second time in a week, President Trump has tweeted about an all-but-unknown right-wing group that says it represents Jews who are abandoning the Democratic Party. In his Friday morning tweet, Trump wrote that the Jexodus organization “encourages Jewish people to leave the Democrat Party,” and that “Republicans are waiting with open arms.” He…
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a leading civil rights group, said on Thursday that it had fired Morris Dees, its co-founder and longtime chief trial counsel. The group did not say why it had terminated Dees, one of the country’s best-known civil rights attorneys. “As a civil rights organization, the SPLC is committed to ensuring…
One member of the Genesis Prize’s leadership has stepped down in the wake of prize administrators’ decision to go forward with plans to honor billionaire Robert Kraft, despite the criminal charges he now faces for soliciting a prostitute, Haaretz reports. Rivka Carmi, a member of the Genesis Prize advisory board, stepped down from her position…
President Trump on Tuesday name-checked an all-but-unknown conservative Jewish group calling itself “JEXODUS” in a morning tweet, quoting its spokeswoman’s claims that “Jewish people are leaving the Democratic Party.” “Jewish people are leaving the Democratic Party. We saw a lot of anti Israel policies start under the Obama Administration, and it got worsts & worse….
The casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson has been the dominant figure in Jewish philanthropy for over a decade, giving hundreds of millions of dollars to Jewish charities, boosting Jewish groups that share his politics, and, more than any other donor, shaping the community according to his values and vision. Now, the news that Adelson is ill…
Details on the charges against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled with much fanfare late last month will not be released until after the April parliamentary elections. Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit agreed on Monday not to turn over evidence in the case until after the elections, the Associated Press reported. “After weighing their positions,…
Call it the revenge of the Hollywood stars. This weekend, two of Israel’s most famous faces — supermodel-turned-superstar actress Gal Gadot, and TV star Rotem Sela — took on Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a high-profile social media spat. It started after Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, appeared on…
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