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.
Rap star Kendrick Lamar may be getting a new wardrobe — from a Hebrew Israelite clothing line. Hebrew Market, an online design company, posted an Instagram photo of Lamar holding one of their t-shirts on June 8. DAMN. Even @kendricklamar has his Hebrew Market gear. Have you ordered your “Lord’s Most Wanted” tee? Don’t be…
The superhero blockbuster “Wonder Woman” has opened up familiar Jewish debates about race and nationality, the Washington Post reported Tuesday, drawing on several Forward articles to do so. The debate was sparked by a post on comicbook.com where the author Matthew Mueller argued that the star of the film, Gal Gadot, was a woman of…
The New York State Assembly on Wednesday approved the Child Victims Act legislation to extend the statute of limitation for criminal and civil child sex abuse cases. It was the first time either chamber of the Legislature has approved that bill since 2008, the Times Union reported — though the legislation’s chances of passing in…
Jewish students at Harvard applauded the school’s decision to rescind the admission of a group of incoming Freshman who shared racist and anti-Semitic memes in a private Facebook group. “The university will be a much better place without their toxic influence,” Gabriel Dardik, an incoming freshman to Harvard wrote to the Forward in an email….
The neo-Nazi blogger Andrew Anglin has raised more than $150,000 for his legal defense after the Southern Poverty Law Center sued him for organizing an online “troll storm” against a Jewish real estate agent in Montana. Oddly though, no one can find Anglin. The SPLC described him as “hiding” from their lawsuit. A process server…
Jewish journalist Julia Ioffe found herself at the center of a Twitter firestorm over a six-year-old post in which she repeated a racial slur for black people. Ioffe, a staff writer at the Atlantic who is known for her liberal politics, initially thought her account had been hacked before realizing the 2011 tweet was actually…
On Monday, conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host Alex Jones balked at the suggestion that the wearing the Muslim hijab could be a feminist act. For Jones, this “is like saying putting Jews in gas chambers is the new sign of Judaism or something — or worshiping Hitler is pro-Israel.” The liberal watchdog group Right Wing…
For the last year, researchers and journalists have speculated about whether the mostly-online “alt-right” movement would ever coalesce with real world action. They excelled with memes and trolling, but was there more to it? It’s happening now, with the proliferation of street gangs inspired by the “alt-right” who are showing up at rallies across the…
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