Sam Kestenbaum is a contributing editor and former staff writer for the Forward. Before this, he worked for The New York Times and newsrooms in Sana, Ramallah and Beijing. Contact him at kestenbaum@forward.com and follow him on Twitter at @skestenbaum and on Instagram at @skestenbaum.
Rabbi Rachel Cowan has died after a battle with cancer. Here’s how we profiled the remarkable “mother of Jewish healing” last year. Rabbi Rachel Cowan moves slowly these days. Her energy lags. She can’t read like she used to. She’s lost most of her eyesight, and sometimes she bumps into things as she makes her…
Michael Savage, a nationally syndicated conservative radio host, is promoting the popular white nationalist trope that there is an ongoing and intentional “cultural genocide” being carried out against the “white race.” On Monday, Savage spent his entire show on the topic, the Southern Poverty Law Center noted in a blog post. “White supremacists typically accuse…
Samuel Lincoln Woodward, the teenager who was recently charged with the brutal murder of the 19-year-old Jewish student Blaze Bernstein, was an avowed member of a growing American Nazi organization — a group that has quickly shot to the forefront of the white supremacist movement with its dark promises of violence and an impending race…
The parents of slain Jewish teenager Blaze Bernstein spoke this morning with a Fox station in California about how they are coping with their son’s death and trying to shift public focus from tragedy to optimism. “We want this to be more than a moment, we want this to be a movement,” said Gideon Bernstein,…
White nationalist Richard Spencer praised President Trump’s senior advisor Stephen Miller for influencing the president on the issue of immigration and pushing political discourse further to the right. Speaking on his “Alt-Right” podcast on January 24, Spencer said that Miller “is singularly responsible for the fact that… we’re even talking about chain migration.” “Chain migration”…
Following a spate of press reports highlighting his connections to the white nationalist “alt-right” and accusations of anti-Semitism, congressional hopeful Paul Nehlen lashed out online against Twitter users who he says have attacked him — nearly all of them Jews. “I’ve compiled a list of ‘verified’ Twitter users who have attacked me in just the…
Most young Americans believe that Muslims, black people and transgender people are facing increasing discrimination, but that anti-Semitism isn’t on the rise — with some saying they believe it has decreased. This new data about young Americans, ages 15 to 24, and their perceptions of discrimination comes from a survey carried out by the Public…
A white nationalist group claimed credit for a sign hung over a tunnel entering San Francisco that seemed to mock the city’s policy on protecting undocumented immigrants. The sign, reading “Danger Sanctuary City Ahead,” greeted westbound motorists heading into the city on the Bay Bridge, CBS News reported. The banner was also emblazoned with the…
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