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 Israeli NBA forward Deni Avdija suffers injury, ending promising rookie season
Israeli NBA rookie Deni Avdija suffered a hairline fracture in his right ankle during a game Wednesday, cutting short his rookie season for the Washington Wizards. Avdija, the ninth overall draft pick in 2020, was coming down from a layup attempt when he awkwardly twisted his ankle. He was wheel-chaired off the floor to an…
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News Emily Grodin typed her first sentence at 25. Now she has her first book.
For the first 25 years of her life, Emily Grodin’s vocabulary was limited to her name and just a couple of words. Then she got a new speech therapy aide — and an iPad that opened floodgates of personal expression. Now Grodin, a 29-year-old with nonverbal autism, and her mother Valerie Gilpeer have written a…
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News ‘It’s a bad time to be great:’ An oral history of Yeshiva University’s historic 36-game win streak
The Yeshiva University Maccabees — universally known as the Macs — are riding a 36-game win streak, tied for the second-longest in NCAA Division III history. The streak spans two seasons (so far), the turnover of nearly half the team’s roster, and of course, the coronavirus pandemic that ended their season abruptly last March and…
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News The next big Jewish publication? It might be on Substack.
When Jewish In Seattle magazine went on hiatus last March, Emily Alhadeff, its editor, pondered her options. After 10 years in Jewish journalism, she knew the community needed objective reporting. She considered launching her own newspaper, but the startup costs were daunting — and she wasn’t sure she could find funding. Still, she knew the…
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News Josh Pastner sets Jewish sports milestone at Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech’s Josh Pastner became the first Jewish head coach to lead a college basketball team to win an Atlantic Coast Conference championship, topping a division that includes titans Duke and North Carolina and becoming another example of the renaissance for Jews in American sports. Pastner, 43, a native of West Virginia, had already won…
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News Want to ruin a date? Bring up Israel.
The piece of sea bass was sort of shaped like the state of Israel, so Danna Shapiro, a Jewish millennial, texted a picture of it to the grad student she was sort of seeing, with the caption: “Zionist fish.” Not long after they matched on Hinge, Shapiro, sensing the grad student’s politics leaned further to…
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Fast Forward NBA suspends and fines Meyers Leonard for antisemitic slur
Meyers Leonard, the Miami Heat player who made headlines Tuesday for shouting an antisemitic slur while livestreaming a video-game, has been suspended from team activities a week by the NBA and fined $50,000. The punishment is comparable with racial and homophobic slurs said by other NBA players in recent years. Leonard presumably did not receive…
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News In L.A., the beloved kosher Ralphs supermarket closes, blaming ‘hero pay’
The fight over pandemic-era economic justice has claimed a new victim — a supermarket with the largest kosher selection in Los Angeles. Responding to a city-mandated pay increase for grocery store workers, Kroger announced Wednesday that it would be closing three stores in Los Angeles, including a Ralphs supermarket whose kosher kitchen, bakery and packaged…
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