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.
On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence delivers the keynote speech at the annual summit of Christians United For Israel — signaling what some see as a new ideological shift for the White House. “His speech marks a fundamental change in the language that the White House has historically employed to articulate the United States’ relationship…
For diehard Donald Trump supporters troubled by this week’s Russia controversy swirling around the president, an unlikely firefighter-turned-prophet has comforting news: This is all part of God’s plan for America, and for Israel. Mark Taylor is a former firefighter from Florida who presents himself as a Christian prophet, based on the claim that God revealed…
The former Soviet intelligence officer who was at the bombshell meeting with Donald Trump Jr. at Trump Tower last June allegedly helped organized a campaign against a fellow Russian seeking political asylum in the United States — by calling him anti-Semitic. Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-born political lobbyist now living in Washington D.C., was accused of…
Reports of incidents involving hate symbols and slurs have more than tripled during the past school year in a suburban school system outside Washington — including vandalism with swastikas and graffiti saying “Heil Hitler.” Since October, more than three dozen incidents have been reported by or linked to schools in Montgomery County, the Washington Post…
Amidst the latest revelations about Russian involvement in the Trump campaign, a group of evangelical leaders gathered in the Oval Office on Monday to “lay hands” on President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence, and to pray for “supernatural wisdom” and protection. “What a humbling moment standing in the Oval Office — laying hands and…
Since his release from jail last month, 20-year-old rapper Kodak Black has gone through a dramatic spiritual transformation — proclaiming himself a descendant of the biblical Levites and diving deep into the Hebrew Israelite world. Now, he wants a new name. Black, whose birth name is Dieuson Octave, filed last month to legally change his…
A Jewish professor of sociology is among the seven individuals suing President Trump and his communication teams, alleging that they’re violating the Constitution by blocking people on Twitter. Philip N. Cohen, a 49-year-old professor at the University of Maryland, was blocked by the @realDonaldTrump account after responding to Trump on Twitter last summer and calling…
If you follow Rob Goldstone’s colorful social media accounts — he posts multiple times a day, often wearing playful hats — you might not have been surprised that the music impressario popped up in the middle of the scandal over Russian election meddling. On the day after his friend Donald Trump won the White House,…
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