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Fighting the Good Fight: Kassy Akiva 

JL;DR SUMMARY Kassy Akiva, an investigative reporter for The Daily Wire, has actively fought against antisemitism for years despite not being born Jewish. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityJewish ConversionSocial MediaJewish PrideHarassmentInvestigative JournalismThe Daily WireKassy Akiva

Places mentioned

Chicopee, Massachusetts, United States
"Born Kassy Dillon, Akiva grew up in a single-parent household devoid of both religion and stability in Chicopee, Massachusetts, a city located roughly ninety miles southwest of Boston."
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
"It didnt take long for Judaism to ring true for Akiva, and after spending a considerable amount of time studying on her own, she began the long conversion process with the Boston Beit Din."
South Carolina, United States
"...includes stints at Fox News, Jewish News Syndicate (JNS), and former Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haleys Stand for America political action committee."
Israel
"...she jumped at the opportunity to take part in a 2016 trip to Israel for politically inclined non-Jewish college students."
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
"As a reporter covering breaking and original stories, she was no stranger to war zones and had submitted live reports from Ukraine, Iraq and Israel. Akiva was ready to pack her bags and head to Tel Aviv..."
Haifa, Haifa District, Israel
"I came back a year later and studied at the University of Haifa."
Sderot, Southern District, Israel
"She was among a group of reporters who were allowed into Sderot, where they sat on a hill watching Gaza being bombed, and she did so many interviews that by the time she returned home to Boston..."
Massachusetts, United States
"Akiva was ready to pack her bags and head to Tel Aviv, but Fox Newsher employer at the timehad other ideas, instructing her instead to interview survivors of the brutal massacre and then to cover the unfolding protests at local college campuses...They wanted to send me to Harvard and to MIT to watch the crazies there..."
Ukraine
"As a reporter covering breaking and original stories, she was no stranger to war zones and had submitted live reports from Ukraine, Iraq and Israel."
Iraq
"As a reporter covering breaking and original stories, she was no stranger to war zones and had submitted live reports from Ukraine, Iraq and Israel."
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