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.
Louis Keene
By Louis Keene
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News Cops in LA County talked about gassing Jews, DA investigation finds
A government investigation that began after a pair of officers were charged with spray-painting a swastika inside a resident’s car has revealed that racist and antisemitic speech was rampant in the Torrance (Calif.) Police Department, according to a Los Angeles Times story published Wednesday. The Los Angeles District Attorney’s office, which reviewed thousands of text…
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News 4 Jewish takeaways from the new L.A. city council map
The Los Angeles City Council approved a new district map on Tuesday, finalizing the contours of the city’s 15 council districts for the next decade. The unanimous vote belied a contentious redistricting process that drew thousands of comments. Public meetings often lasted longer than six hours. At one point early in the process, a Los…
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News A USC student tweeted ‘kill every motherf——ing Zionist.’ Zionist faculty are unhappy with USC’s response.
A group of University of Southern California faculty members are demanding the school take action against a Palestinian student who posted several antisemitic tweets, including one saying she wanted “to kill every motherf——-g Zionist.” In an open letter addressed to the university president, provost, and board chairman published Dec. 1, the faculty said a lack…
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News Germany cut a reparations check to a Holocaust survivor. Then it demanded the money back.
The reparations checks Amira Gezow received every three months from the German government mattered to her. She had worked to get them and had helped other survivors secure theirs. For Gezow, a German-born woman who lost both her parents in the Holocaust, the checks were, monetarily, a pittance: 72.55 euros per month, or about 240…
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Fast Forward ‘Goyim Defense League’ blamed for antisemitic flyers in Beverly Hills
Several residents of Beverly Hills discovered an early Hanukkah present in their driveways Sunday morning: a flyer blaming Jews for the coronavirus pandemic. The propaganda appears to be the work of the Goyim Defense League, which the Anti-Defamation League describes as “a small network of virulently antisemitic provocateurs” that operates a hate-streaming website and organizes…
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Culture Looking for chill Jewish conversation online? Try r/Judaism
If there’s a path out of the polarization, shaming and judging among Jews, it would take us to the Promised Land, right? Sometimes it feels as if we’re already there on r/Judaism, a forum on the social media platform Reddit that’s by Jews, for Jews — and open to anyone curious. Compared to Jewish life…
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Fast Forward Duke pro-Israel group loses charter after Instagram call-out
A new pro-Israel campus group at Duke University won official recognition from the school’s student government last Wednesday. It lost it in less than a week. Duke’s student government president vetoed Students Supporting Israel’s recognition Monday after the group used its Instagram account to challenge a student who said it represented “settler colonialism.” Singling out…
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Fast Forward New report says antisemitism declined in Los Angeles in 2020
A new report shows antisemitic hate crimes declined in Los Angeles County last year from the year prior, even as hate crimes in the county increased by 20% overall and antisemitic incidents nationwide remained high. The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations’ 2020 Hate Crime Report shows the number of antisemitic hate crimes decreased…
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