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 Elliot Steinmetz: Sports Dad of the Year
This is one of seven profiles of American Jews who fascinated us in 2021. Click here to see all seven and read an explanation of our Forward Shortlist. When a late-game layup put his team down by one point at Sarah Lawrence in 2020, Elliot Steinmetz, head coach of the Yeshiva University men’s basketball team,…
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News Book by book: A granddaughter lovingly dismantles ‘Lissy’s Library’
Lissy Jarvik’s personal library catalogued her kaleidoscopic range of interests. Among hundreds of spines on her shelves were mystery novels, art monographs, history books and landmark volumes on feminist theory. Titles about the Holocaust and psychology were windows into the life of a woman who escaped the Nazis and made the study of aging her…
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Books From a Budapest attic to the New York Knicks: A Holocaust survivor’s family journey
For the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, the irony of Dan Grunfeld’s first contract offer to play professional basketball was a bit on-the-nose. It was not just that it came from Germany. The team that wanted him was from Oldenburg — the first state to put the Nazi party in power. Grunfeld’s new book, By…
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Culture The ‘Lehman Trilogy’ cast had questions about Jews and money — and a rabbi to answer them
Not long before the debut of Lehman Trilogy at London’s National Theatre, Rabbi Daniel Epstein was teaching the cast about kaddish. In a play dense with Jewish references, the prayer for the dead is a symbolic lodestar, and Epstein wanted the actors to know what it meant. Only three actors have lines in Lehman, which…
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Fast Forward LA city council members push measure to explore divesting from Ben & Jerry’s, Unilever
A motion to consider divesting from Ben & Jerry’s parent company Unilever has been introduced in Los Angeles City Council, a response to the ice cream maker’s decision to end sales in Israeli settlements. Proposed by two Jewish council members on Dec. 8, the motion would instruct the city’s two major pension funds, the Los…
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News With an apology, Germany returns reparations to Holocaust survivor’s kin
A German official has apologized to the daughter of a Holocaust survivor for demanding she return 72.55 euros that the government had mistakenly paid out to her deceased mother after she died in January. And Germany will return the money — about $80 — to the daughter, who had written a check for the amount…
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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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