I'm pleased to learn that the Clippers, tired of fending off allegations related to previous jersey sponsor Aspiration, have partnered with a new, totally uncontroversial entity going forward. www.forbes.com/sites/shaney...

Is there a prefix that includes all kinds of "-washing"s (pinkwashing, greenwashing, sportswashing etc)? The best I can come up with is culturewashing but it's not exactly right.

I tried to explain why some in the Orthodox Jewish community have been treating Charlie Kirk like mashiach. forward.com/news/770722/...

Sometimes you write a story hoping it will change the world. Sometimes you just want to coin a term in the headline. forward.com/fast-forward...

Sometimes you write a story hoping it will change the world. Sometimes you just want to coin a term in the headline. forward.com/fast-forward...

I'm proud of @forward.com's coverage of the Charlie Kirk assassination and will thread a few of the follow-ups we have published so far on the national news story. From @benyamincohen.bsky.social on perceptions of Kirk as a "martyr" and that debate's Jewish implications: forward.com/news/769333/...

This morning's palate cleanser is from @forward.com's Olivia Haynie, on the Jewishness of 'The Golden Girls': forward.com/culture/film...

There are now Charlie Kirk memorial yarmulkes being advertised on Instagram, underscoring the beatification of the right-wing activist in a large segment of the Jewish community.

“It feels important for people to show what their politics are, especially as Jews, when the narrative is that Judaism is Zionism, Zionism is Judaism & Jews have loyalty to the state of Israel. I fully get why people want to say, like, No, not me, though.” Via @louiskeene.bsky.social @forward.com

very clear that these ai enhance tools are a scourge

I wrote about the growth, and growing pains, of traditional-egalitarian Judaism: forward.com/news/767221/...

On Thursday, the Holocaust Museum LA posted “'Never again' can’t only mean never again for Jews” on instagram. It’s notable because they would be recognizing the genocide in Gaza. Anyway, they pulled it down today saying, “we promise to do better.”

I blogged about Joe Sanberg, the prison-bound social justice entrepreneur at the center of the scandal embroiling the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard. This marks (I think) a professional first for me – the reasonable inclusion of a Getty photo I appear in. Click to see it! forward.com/fast-forward...

leave chris martin alone forward.com/fast-forward...

when you're searching getty images and see the one

I blogged about the Adam Friedland/Ritchie Torres interview — a sensational, longform encounter between an American Jewish critic of the war and one of its staunchest proponents. forward.com/fast-forward...

Not mentioned in this story: A pair of Joshes currently run the Burnley midfield. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

I have blogged about Chet Holmgren's new nickname and the silly way he acquired it. forward.com/news/sports/...

I genuinely do not get creating a musical using an actual victim of the Holocaust to parody wokeness in a moment when progressive ideology is being crushed and claims of antisemitism are not only contested but increasingly laughed at. www.jta.org/2025/08/21/c...

This letter is not only a rebuke of Israel's war in Gaza, though it certainly is that. It is also a rejection of the prevailing, expansionist vision of Religious Zionism by rabbis who identify with that movement but not those ideas. forward.com/fast-forward...

Numbers to cite in your coverage of Chabad's rapidly growing influence on Jewish life, belief and practice around the world. ejewishphilanthropy.com/jews-connect...

Do you go to a Halachic Egal or Trad Egal minyan? I'd love to hear from you for a story I'm working on. Chat me here or email: keene at forward dot com -Louis

New from me: Yeshivat Chovevei Torah quietly ordained an out gay rabbi this summer, a first for the liberal Orthodox seminary. Rabbi Tadhg Cleary's ordination comes six years after the school denied the title to a different gay student. Why (+ how) YCT changed course: forward.com/news/759799/...

'Guns & Moses,' the detective thriller releasing in select theaters tomorrow, is a crude adaptation of the antisemitic attack that inspired it. I think you should watch it anyway. forward.com/culture/7563...

'Guns & Moses,' the detective thriller releasing in select theaters tomorrow, is a crude adaptation of the antisemitic attack that inspired it. I think you should watch it anyway. forward.com/culture/7563...

wrote about the L.A. fires, my family and a thing my dad made in the nineties (not me) forward.com/forward-news...

[eminem voice] iranian uranium

Three influential Jewish voices in the MAGA movement — figures typically known for their unwavering loyalty to the GOP standard-bearer — are aghast over Trump’s decision to accept a $400 million aircraft from the government of Qatar.

hard to read this any other way than as a headfirst, societywide plunge into nihilism nymag.com/intelligence...

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"Most high-level American politicians refused to meet with Ben-Gvir. The majority of American Jews also declined. The exception was the Orthodox Jewish community." 18forty.org/articles/mei...

New: Eighth-graders on a school Israel trip were attacked by local teens at a Yom Ha'atzmaut festival, sending 11 to the hospital. (They're fine.) "It is a reminder that Israel is a real country, and everything does not flow with Milk and Honey at all times." forward.com/news/716938/...

Wild story in LA, where a judge sided with IfNotNow protesters who accused City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto of anti-Palestinian bias. Rather than drop the case, HFS turned over all her texts and emails about pro-Pal protesters. Defense calls the move "unhinged" 👀 forward.com/fast-forward...

I think this chronological rundown of Trump's first 100 days will be cited and linked to for years to come. Proud to have contributed to some of this coverage for @forward.com, which @arnorosenfeld.bsky.social put all in one place: forward.com/news/715870/...

Think this episode is some of the finest American Jewish cultural production ever created forward.com/culture/film...

A notable change of tune from Chabad today, condemning the "small breakaway group of young people" four days after Hasidim mobbed anti-Ben-Gvir protesters outside 770. On Friday the party line was "those antisemites won't be coming back here, that's for sure."

He's gonna be prime minister someday forward.com/fast-forward...

NBC News reports that Columbia students are planning another pro-Palestinian encampment protest, and codenaming it the "circus." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

"This is who should meet with Israel’s National Security Minister on his visit to the United States this week: No one. Not a soul." From @forward.com Opinion: forward.com/opinion/7138...

loving the new yiddish.com website

happy 128th birthday of @forward.com to all who observe

happy eighth day of the omer to all who observe

Does Josh Shapiro sing Hatikvah at the Seder? forward.com/fast-forward...

A Chabad synagogue is hosting Itamar Ben-Gvir, the right-wing Israeli politician, next week for a fundraiser in Crown Heights. forward.com/fast-forward...

In May 2021, as antisemitic incidents spiked in the United States, the law firm Paul Weiss rallied dozens of top law firms to issue a statement denouncing antisemitism. Following the firm's settlement with President Trump, the statement and accompanying press release were deleted from its website.

Area man observes three-day chag:

At tonight’s Bulls game, Lonzo Ball is hosting the family of the donor for his knee transplant surgery. Alex Reinhardt died at age 20 in Feb. 2023. Ball sought out his family this year after making an unprecedented comeback to the NBA. Ball: “It changed my life.”

YU may have settled their case with an LGBTQ student club, but recent comments by its head rabbis show a long road ahead for queer acceptance at the school. In 2025, some of the most revered rabbis in Orthodox Judaism still believe homosexuality is a choice. forward.com/news/709483/...

The Forward is tracking the known ICE arrests for pro-Palestinian campus activity. The number currently stands at nine: forward.com/fast-forward...

Kohen?