Benyamin Cohen
Senior Writer at Forward
News Director, The Forward, @jdforward / Author, 'My Jesus Year' and ‘The Einstein Effect' / Manager of @alberteinstein
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3 days ago |
forward.com | Benyamin Cohen
WHITE OAK, PENNSYLVANIA - Nik Jakobs, a Jewish cowboy with a finance degree and four daughters, isn't your typical synagogue president. Then again, the synagogue he's building - from the remains of one that just closed - isn't typical either.
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1 week ago |
thejewishnews.com | Benyamin Cohen
This article was originally published in The Forward. When David Boskey first met Yaron Lischinsky at a small Hebrew-speaking congregation in downtown Jerusalem, he saw someone who was “soft-spoken, but not timid. Always smiling. Always volunteering.” They were like brothers, Boskey said — one older, one younger — drawn together by faith, questions of identity, and a shared commitment to Israel. Now Boskey, 39, is mourning the loss of that friend.
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2 weeks ago |
forward.com | Benyamin Cohen
When David Boskey first met Yaron Lischinsky at a small Hebrew-speaking congregation in downtown Jerusalem, he saw someone who was "soft-spoken, but not timid. Always smiling. Always volunteering." They were like brothers, Boskey said - one older, one younger - drawn together by faith, questions of identity, and a shared commitment to Israel. Now, Boskey, 39, is mourning the loss of that friend.
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2 weeks ago |
forward.com | Benyamin Cohen
Eliana Goldin graduated from Columbia University on Monday. On Tuesday, she went public with what she called "the worst antisemitic attack I faced personally on campus."In a social media thread on X - which has so far racked up nearly 1 million views - Goldin said she was removed from her columnist role at The Columbia Daily Spectator, the student newspaper, after an Instagram poll she posted months earlier was recast by critics as a call for violence against Palestinians.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Benyamin Cohen
1 hour agoNew episodes of Gary Lineker's podcast The Rest is Football will no longer appear on the BBC's audio streaming service after the presenter leaves the corporation in the wake of an antisemitism row. The show, which is produced by Lineker's company Goalhanger Productions, will continue to be available …
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In my @jdforward morning newsletter > Harvard unites — against Trump Plus > Israel marks 600 days of war • Slain embassy staffer laid to rest in Kansas • Trump’s tariffs impacting Orthodox’s black hats • How to cook vegan for Shavuot • and much more. Start your day here > https://t.co/IIHU3i00i9
In my morning @jdforward newsletter > For Orthodox voters, faith in Trump remains strong Plus > Trump amps up attacks on Harvard • Funerals for Capital Jewish Museum victims • Pentagon promotes antisemitic conspiracy theorist • and much more. Start your day here > https://t.co/veBkeJWDPI
Yaron Lischinsky, who was killed Wednesday outside a DC Jewish museum, was born in Germany to a Jewish father and Christian mother, moved to Israel at 16 and found a spiritual home in Melech Ha'Mlachim — "King of Kings" in English — a Messianic congregation in Jerusalem. https://t.co/V2PUSI7aNu
