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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Culture Why this boxing champ’s jacket says “Remember the Masada”
If you’re Jewish, and you can swing a bat or throw a punch, you’re the Hebrew Hammer. That’s how it works. So it follows that Cletus Seldin, a pro boxer straight out of Long Island who wears a Star of David on his trunks, is the Hebrew Hammer. That’s how it works. “I love it,”…
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Culture The likely MLB Manager of the Year has Hebrew written all over him — literally
Update: The Dodgers beat the Giants Thursday night to take the National League Divisional Series. The manager of the San Francisco Giants wants the world to know he’s Jewish. He has a Star of David tattoo on one leg and a “Never Again” tattoo on the other. He once signed a contract for $1,000,018 —…
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News A rabbi is under investigation for arranging child marriages. But one of his teen couples just got married.
In January of 2020, a boy celebrated his bar mitzvah. On Monday, he got married. The rabbi who made it happen is a Williamsburg-based Hasidic leader who’s already under investigation over arranging child marriages. Videos and text messages viewed by the Forward show that the yeshiva run by Rabbi Yoel Roth, Heichel Hakodesh Breslev, hosted…
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News Hebrew translation, where are you? Sally Rooney boycotting Israel with new novel
CORRECTION: This article has been corrected to note that Rooney is boycotting Israeli publishing houses, not a Hebrew translation of her novel. In a statement Tuesday, Rooney said that while she would not publish with an Israeli press, she would be happy to sell Hebrew translation rights to another publisher in a way that complies…
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News No party, no gifts, no Israel trip: Brazilian bat mitzvah girl fighting hunger instead
Carolina Kuperstein is the only Jewish kid at her school in Florianópolis, an island city of about 500,000 in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, so the 13-year-old’s idea of a typical bat mitzvah comes not from her classmates, but from American movies. “They show all the joy and happiness in Jewish tradition, and…
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News A dilemma for L.A.’s Jewish voters: 2 mayoral hopefuls with close communal ties
Long before Mike Feuer announced his candidacy for mayor, the Los Angeles Jewish community — a force in both local and national Democratic politics — thought highly of the city attorney. Born to a Jewish family in San Bernardino about two hours east of L.A., Feuer has for decades been active in Jewish affairs. He…
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News L.A. redistricting plan empowers Jewish voters
The rabbi’s email had an arresting subject line: “Emergency Tehillim Needed.” Why the urgent call for prayers? Had a congregant fallen ill? An Israeli soldier gone missing? A once-per-decade shift in the lines separating city districts was probably not what congregants were expecting. But the Los Angeles City Council district map was soon to be…
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Fast Forward AEPi house at Northwestern under investigation
Alpha Epsilon Pi at Northwestern University is under investigation after several people said they were drugged at the fraternity house without their consent. An email from the university sent to students and faculty Friday said it had received multiple reports of drugging after a gathering on campus at 584 Lincoln St. in Evanston, which is…
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