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 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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Fast Forward Jewish Starbucks chief, fighting union effort, makes ill-fated remark about Holocaust blankets
It’s a pretty reliable rule of thumb that if you’re thinking about comparing something to the Holocaust, you should, instead, do literally anything else. Howard Schultz, Starbucks’ chairman emeritus, became the latest to put his foot in his mouth in this specific way while trying to deter employees from unionizing, according to an article published…
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Culture Fried chicken & waffles, a South L.A. tradition, goes kosher
Update, 3/18/22: Melrose Bite announced today it was no longer kosher in an Instagram post. It’s the dawn of Kosher Food 3.0, at least in Los Angeles. Out with pastrami on rye and matzo ball soup. In with chicken-and-waffles. Yes — kosher chicken-and-waffles. The arrival of Melrose Bite, a kosher fried chicken joint in the…
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Fast Forward A Koufax counterpoint: Max Fried makes World Series history with shutout performance
If you’re a Jewish baseball fan, you likely know the story of Sandy Koufax in the 1965 World Series — when he became famous for sitting out on Yom Kippur. On Tuesday night, Max Fried — like Koufax, a Jewish southpaw — provided a historic counterpoint: he entered the history books by taking the mound…
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Culture Think you know Torah? Try to beat this impossible Hebrew Bible quiz.
Can you tell your Abrahams from your Absaloms from your Amnons? Can you read the word of God and know who’s being addressed? Then you might have a chance at acing the hilariously difficult excerpt we have from this year’s Chidon — the Hebrew Bible knowledge contest organized by the World Zionist Organization and the…
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News Native Americans condemn the Braves’ tomahawk chop — but some Atlanta rabbis won’t
Years ago, when Rabbi Josh Lesser was in college, his dad, a diehard Atlanta Braves fan, invited him to a playoff game. He had splurged for good seats. But Lesser had just spent several weeks on a cultural exchange at the Lac du Flambeau Reservation in Wisconsin, and he dreaded the stadium ritual that many…
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