Louis Keene is a reporter for the Forward. His work has also been published in The New York Times, New York Magazine and VICE. He is based in Los Angeles and can be followed on Twitter @thislouis.
Louis Keene
By Louis Keene
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News LA fires displaced them. But their bar mitzvahs went on.
'This boy is actually allowing us to gather together to celebrate,' Kehillat Israel's cantor said
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Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
For Rabbi Amy Bernstein and hundreds of her congregants, Kehillat Israel is 'the home we have left'
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Fast Forward At least one synagogue destroyed as unprecedented wildfires rip through Los Angeles
Some local Jewish leaders wondered if their spiritual homes would still be standing in the morning
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Fast Forward Rutgers is latest university to settle Dept. of Education antisemitism investigation
Agreement includes anti-harassment training following hundreds of discrimination complaints from Jewish, Arab and Muslim students
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Explanatory articles – especially relating to the 2024 election — top the year-end list
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Fast Forward After anti-Israel protests roil NYU, its basketball game with Yeshiva University is closed to the general public
YU’s head coach calls it a ‘security decision’
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News How a Jewish neighborhood in liberal Los Angeles became a stronghold for Trump
The political shift in Pico-Robertson, an Orthodox neighborhood in LA's Westside, reflects voters with a change of heart and changing demographics
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The purveyor of gefilte fish and macaroons partners with Jake Retzlaff for a series of videos that will release between now and Passover
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