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.
With Georgia’s special House election one day away, a Trump-supporting professional “social media guru” is flooding Twitter with grass roots-looking messages against Democrat Jon Ossoff. Accounts related to a man named Robert Shelton, a.k.a. @RobertsRooms, have flooded hashtags about the election with anti-Ossoff messages, Politico reported. “DON’T VOTE FOR #NEVEROSSOFF,” one wrote early Friday morning….
The Anti-Defamation League applauded last week’s resolution from the Southern Baptist Convention condemning the “alt-right,” calling the group “insidious and hateful.” “Steps like those of the SBC to clearly repudiate the movement go a long way toward raising awareness of the danger of the alt-right,” wrote the ADL’s Rabbi David Sandmel in an op-ed at…
Israelis with Indian backgrounds seem to love Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Approximately 4,000 Israeli Jews whose families have roots in India are expected to attend a keynote event hosted by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a much-anticipated July visit to Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported. “We expect a crowd of around 4,000 Indian…
B’nai Jeshurun stands on 88th Street among expensive Upper West Side apartments, an impressive synagogue in an elegant Moorish style. It’s best known for lively and well-attended Shabbat services, which can attract thousands of congregants, including a distinctive, progressive core of Jewish movers and shakers. Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has attended, as well as…
A self-professed neo-Nazi who was found with bomb-making materials in his apartment once served in the National Guard. Brandon Russell was arrested last month after authorities discovered bomb equipment while searching his apartment in connection to the slaying of two of Russell’s roommates. Another roommate, 18-year-old Devon Arthurs, is accused in the slayings. Heidi Beirich,…
Jeremy Joseph Christian, who was arrested in the killing of two men and wounding of another aboard an Oregon train last month, claimed in a court appearance on June 7 that he was “defending himself.” “Not guilty of anything but defending myself against violent aggression by Micah Fletcher,” Christian said, according to the Oregonian, calling…
A new video game where users join a multiracial resistance and battle Nazis in a dystopian 1960s America is causing uproar in “alt-right” forums. “Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus” is the latest iteration of a popular video game series. On the neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer, an author named Michael Byron described growing up playing the…
Weeks after Kendrick Lamar surprised some listeners by calling himself an Israelite, another celebrity rapper has done the same. Kodak Black may have just gone Hebrew Israelite. In a string of Instagram posts this month, the 20-year-old rapper told his millions of followers that he is now an Israelite — specifically from the tribe of…
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