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.
Most Americans support legal abortion — but religious groups vary widely on their views of the procedure, according to two separate Pew surveys. American Jews are more supportive than the general population. A 2017 Pew Research Center survey found that 57 percent of Americans are supportive of legal abortion — with 40 percent saying abortion…
President Trump may have low approval ratings, but most Christians are praying for him. According to new research from the Barna group, 69 percent of what they call “practicing” Christians pray for Trump, with evangelicals being the highest, at 88 percent. Among those in non-Christian religions, only 18 percent do. The study does not show…
A town manager in Maine was fired from his job this week after it emerged that he is the founder and leader of New Albion, a group that calls for racial separatism and opposes people “from different cultures” coming to northern New England. Jackman town manager Tom Kawczynski hoped to turn large sections of of…
Alex Jones, the country’s leading internet conspiracist, is teaming up with New York Times bestselling author Neil Strauss on a book about the “war for the future,” including a sinister plot to brainwash the masses and make them docile. It’s a theme that would be familiar to fans of Jones, whose broadcasts are filled with…
A television report in Poland that exposed neo-Nazis celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday and burning a swastika has lead to an official investigation and a government denunciation. The original report was broadcast by the station TVN24 over the weekend and focused on a neo-Nazi group named Pride and Modernity. This is the same group that held…
In an appearance on the “alt-right” radio show Radical Agenda, neo-Nazi publisher Andrew Anglin laid out his editorial strategy — appeal to the kids because they’re easier to indoctrinate. “My site is mainly designed to target children,” Anglin said of his website the Daily Stormer. Much “alt-right” culture and recruitment is focused on sparking an…
Paul Nehlen, a Wisconsin businessman hoping to unseat Rep. Paul Ryan in a primary election, is tapping into hardcore elements of the “alt-right” — appearing on white nationalist podcasts and proudly promoting anti-Semitic books on his Twitter feed. After President Trump shortened the prison sentence of kosher meatpacking magnate Sholom Rubashkin, Nehlen urged the president…
Julius Lester, a celebrated African American author and civil rights activist whose conversion to Judaism in the 1980s made him a celebrated face of Jewish diversity, has died at 78. Lester had been posting online about his struggle with emphysema. Jews of color were once seen “an anomaly,” said Robin Washington, a journalist and co-founder…
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