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Culture This UFO Changes Everything
We at the Forward are delighted to welcome Marty Kaplan to his first column for the Forward. An award-winning columnist for Huffpo and the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, Marty will be writing his “Oh Kaplan, My Kaplan” column for us twice a month. His eagle-eyed view from the West Coast promises to be eye-opening, heart-rending…
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Life In An L.A. Shtetl, I Found Myself
“She’s pretty for a Jewess,” the woman in the elevator says in French to her boyfriend, a Moroccan who lives in my new building in Pico Robertson. With my blonde hair and blue eyes, I’ve gotten used to being called “a nice” Jew from Morristown, New Jersey. Then there was the “So nice for a…
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein Murder Suspect Belonged To Neo-Nazi Group
Samuel Woodward, the high school classmate accused of murdering Blaze Bernstein, was an avowed member of the American neo-Nazi group “Atomwaffen Division,” according to a new report by ProPublica. The group, whose name is German for “Atomic Weapons Division,” is “an armed Fascist group with the ultimate aim of overthrowing the U.S. government through the…
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein Murder Suspect Reenacted Grisly White Supremacist Attack
The high school classmate suspected of murdering Blaze Bernstein reportedly recreated a famed neo-Nazi attack from the big screen on social media. Samuel Woodward, who posted white nationalist screeds on fringe sites, posted a photo of himself pretending to crush a friend’s skull against a concrete parking barrier, the New York Post reported. It was…
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News Who Is Blaze Bernstein’s Accused Killer — And Did He Turn To Hate Online?
Samuel Lincoln Woodward was formally charged Wednesday with murdering Blaze Bernstein — as questions continued to swirl around the senseless stabbing of the California college student. Woodward, a high-school classmate of Bernstein, was shackled and did not enter a plea during a brief appearance in an Orange County court. A judge ordered him held without bail…
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein Suspect Charged With Murder In Brutal Stabbing
Prime suspect Samuel Woodward was charged with murder Wednesday in the killing of inspirational California college student Blaze Bernstein. The ex-high school classmate of Bernstein faces 26 years to life in prison if convicted in the brutal stabbing death, which took place after the two met near their homes in an affluent Los Angeles suburb…
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein Suspect Used Anti-Gay Slur — Fueling Hate Crime Suspicion
The accused killer of Blaze Bernstein reportedly used a common anti-gay slur about the slain college student in an interrogation with police. Samuel Woodward, 20, who was charged with murder at an arraignment Wednesday, used the ‘f-word’ when discussing his meeting with Bernstein on the night he disappeared, the Orange County Register reported. The heartbroken…
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Fast Forward Blaze Bernstein Tributes Spread As Family Launches #DoGoodForBlaze Movement
A makeshift memorial to Blaze Bernstein created out of rocks and pebbles has continued to grow as the family of the slain college student called on people to make something positive out of his murder. Collections of small rocks bearing Bernstein’s name and likeness sit alongside candles in Borrega Park near the spot where the…
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