Molly Boigon is an investigative reporter at the Forward. Contact her at boigon@forward.com or follow her on Twitter @MollyBoigon.
Molly Boigon
By Molly Boigon
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News A guide to the extremists and hate groups that invaded the Capitol
As photos and videos of the insurrection at the Capitol trickled out of Washington, D.C., a pattern emerged — well-known antisemites and their symbols were at the uprising or cheering it on from afar. That guy’s hoodie says “Camp Auschwitz.” https://t.co/I2hwHZ1MsD — Matt Ford (@fordm) January 6, 2021 Here’s a guide to some of the…
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News ‘G-d bless the Capitol Police’: Far-right protesters storm U.S. Capitol amid antisemitic claims over election
Updated: 4:59 pm EST. This is a breaking news story and will be updated as the situation develops. The violent storming of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday by far-right protesters came after 36 hours of protests in D.C. that centered on antisemitic conspiracy theories, including QAnon, and claims that George Soros and other prominent Jewish Americans…
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News As the first Jewish Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer might return to his scrappy roots
During Sen. Chuck Schumer’s first Senate run for a New York seat in 1998, in a private meeting with Jewish supporters, Republican Sen. Al D’Amato called his upstart competitor a “putzhead,” literally meaning “penis-head.” Schumer has come a long way. Now, after victories for Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in competitive Senate runoffs in Georgia,…
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Fast Forward Queens deputy borough president steps down after tweets about Israel, Ilhan Omar
A top Queens official named to his post withdrew Monday after tweets surfaced in which he criticized Israeli policies and lobbying. Michael Hurwitz, who is Jewish, was tapped as a deputy borough president for Donovan Richards, but Richards’ office tweeted that “for professional and personal reasons,” he would not take his position. For professional and…
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Fast Forward DOJ moves to seize property bought by donors to Jewish nonprofits
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint last week to seize property that was bought by two influential Jewish nonprofit donors in Florida who are accused of laundering money from Ukraine. The two men were the subject of a Forward investigation last February. The Justice Department says that two Ukranian oligarchs, Igor Veleryevich Kolomoisky…
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Culture The 20 greatest Jewish jokes of 2020
If there’s one thing we can all agree on — a big ask for 2020 — it’s that this was a year in which humor was more valuable than ever. Through the spikes of the COVID pandemic, a tightwire-tense presidential election and a summer of protests against racism and police violence, we’ve needed excuses to…
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News A look inside NYC’s 2019 antisemitic hate crime reports
Some New York police officers, even those who respond to cases of antisemitic graffiti in Orthodox swaths of Brooklyn, don’t seem to know how to spell “swastika” or “yarmulke.” Surveillance cameras, even those in the subway, cannot always be relied upon to capture vandals who paint or carve hateful messages. And police officers frequently either…
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News Brooklyn Botanic Garden takes main role in latest Crown Heights gentrification clash
Adrian Benepe, the president and CEO of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, acknowledged during a Wednesday night virtual meeting with supporters that he was coming to them with an unusual request. “We are really going against precedent,” he said. “I’m not aware of a single other cultural institution on city property that has ever taken as…
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