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 Want to ruin a date? Bring up Israel.
More personal than American politics and more sensitive than religious observance, Israeli politics can make for a potent cocktail
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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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Fast Forward ADL demands apology from NBA center Meyers Leonard’s for ‘kike’ slur on Twitch
This article was updated March 9 at 8:20 EST. An NBA player blurted out an antisemitic slur during a live-stream of a first-person shooter video game on Monday, creating a jarring new category in the canon of professional athletes who have made antisemitic remarks in the past year. Meyers Leonard, a nine-year pro who plays…
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News We’re living in the (second) Golden Age of the Jewish athlete
Something is happening in the world of sports that hasn’t happened since the middle of the last century: Jews. Jews are happening. They have quietly been ascending the ranks in professional basketball, soccer, baseball, and tennis, and are now poised for a decade of dominance. Yes, we are living in the Golden Age of the…
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News A Jewish MMA reporter called out Gina Carano. Then he became a target.
An ESPN reporter who criticized Gina Carano’s incendiary social media posts has drawn the ire of the commissioner of the sport he covers, drawing the Worldwide Leader into the Octagon of cancel culture and antisemitism. Ariel Helwani has long set the standard for reporting on mixed-martial arts fighting, especially when it comes to Ultimate Fighting…
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News Why did these rabbis seek a pardon for Elliot Broidy?
When former President Donald Trump, in one of his last acts in office, granted an executive pardon to confessed felon Elliott Broidy, the White House cited letters in Broidy’s support from some unusual sources: five Los Angeles rabbis. Broidy, a multimillionaire businessman and prominent Jewish philanthropist, pleaded guilty to illegal foreign lobbying on Oct. 20….
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News No refrigerators left: L.A.’s COVID-19 spike swamps Jewish mortuaries
On one recent Saturday night, mortuary director Moe Goldsman got his first call at 10 p.m., his second at 12:30 a.m., and his third at 1:45 a.m. He worked through the night and went to sleep at dawn. With coronavirus numbers skyrocketing in Southern California since Thanksgiving, Goldsman’s Sholom Mortuary is struggling to keep pace…
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