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Forward
April 20, 2018
When the Forward revealed that weed has always been an integral part of Jewish existence, some Jews were not surprised. More specifically, some Jewish ... “We been knew,” said Max, a 26-year old investment banker - and a Jew. How much money does he ... How many Jews smoke weed? Hard to say.
Forward
April 20, 2018
Many pro-Israel Jewish students had what Hillel student president Talia Rubin described to the Forward on Tuesday as “Israel fatigue.” “They're ... Of course, this also meant that more than half of all students did not vote — presumably including many Jews at a school that is an estimated one-third Jewish.
Forward
April 20, 2018
As we approach the eve of the holy holiday of 4/20, we wanted to take a moment to mark this auspicious occasion. Because marijuana is a central part of Jewish life — in fact, it always has been, as Madison Margolin writes, all the way from ancient Israel to the shtetl. Jews relate to this magical green plant inÃâà...
Forward
April 20, 2018
All stereotypes of Jewish folk.That's A+ Jew coding right there. But glad to know you think you can decide whether or not your antisemitic based on 3 simple questions.— luffy is my transition goals (@agenderjew) April 19, 2018. Jews Are Wizards, Too By 2009, two years had passed since the final “HarryÃâà...
Forward
April 20, 2018
Jane Eisner's April 19 essay “It's Time For Israel To Recognize That Diaspora Jews Are Already Home” correctly underscores the necessity to alter the framework for dialogue between Israel and world Jewry to an internal family discourse about the meaning of Jewish peoplehood. I disagree about droppingÃâà...
Forward
April 19, 2018
As a Palestinian woman, a feminist, and a citizen of the Israeli state, I would like to tell the Jewish community that I see and respect your commitment to ... My dear American Jews, I want you to know that one million Palestinians inside Israel will not give up the perpetual, exhausting nonviolent struggle forÃâà...
Forward
April 19, 2018
I will not allow Lavin to define what it means to be an American or a Jew. Although I have been a lifelong Democrat, I would never want to live in a country where Jews cannot be supportive of any political candidate or party they choose. That's what it means to have equal citizenship under the law,Ãâà...
Forward
April 19, 2018
Without the support of one Jewish sixth-grade teacher in Brooklyn, Shawn Carter might never have become Jay-Z. During a conversation with David Letterman on the former “Late Show” host's new show, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” the rapper and entrepreneur discussed how his formerÃâà...
Forward
April 19, 2018
But, Ghozlan added, “the cowardly hatred that is proliferating today is driving those who hate Jews to attack not only the living, but also the dead.” BNVCA has lodged a criminal complaint with police over the incident, Ghozlan added. Last year, individuals whose identity has remained unknown destroyed 40Ãâà...
Forward
April 19, 2018
“Barbara Bush was an extraordinary woman,” Norm Coleman, national chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition and a former U.S. senator from Minnesota, said in a statement. “She dedicated her life to public service, and worked tirelessly to help sick children and people in need. She inspired millionsÃâà...
Forward
April 2, 2018
Former Jewish refugees pose for photos in Tilanqiao area on April 27, 2006 in Shanghai, China. About 120 former Jewish refugees and their descendants from the United States, Germany, Australia and other countries are in town for the '2006 Shanghai Reunion', aims to call on the United Nations to listÃâà...
Forward
April 2, 2018
But the plan was stymied by widespread public opposition within Israel and the Jewish Diaspora, before Rwanda pulled out of the agreement and the country's ... The backtrack was criticized by many Jewish groups. .... The Forward's independent journalism depends on donations from readers like you.
Forward
April 2, 2018
A Palestinian-German politician and the chairman of Berlin's Jewish community are hatching a plan to rebuild a grand synagogue destroyed by Nazis and their supporters in 1938, the Washington Post reported. The Fraenkelufer synagogue was largely destroyed during Kristallnacht, in 1938. Raed SalehÃâà...
Forward
April 2, 2018
I work in a Jewish organization. I am raising a beautiful Jewish son. My mother is an atheist Brooklyn Jew, first generation daughter of immigrants. My father is a lapsed Michigan Catholic. I have spoken, written and taught about intermarriage and mixed heritage Jews, to hundreds of people, over the lastÃâà...
Forward
April 2, 2018
By day four, most have already exhausted their repertoires of matzo plus fill-in-the-blank spread. And by day eight, we can't wait to get rid of the stuff. From Poland to Argentina, this is a universal experience. Which is why Jews around the globe have developed versions of a dish that packs a culinary punchÃâà...
Forward
April 2, 2018
You see, I tried to date a Jew. Two Jews, actually — consecutively, possibly — but since I don't name or differentiate them in any way, I'm just gonna call them, collectively, “Mr. Jew.” (Very Sex and the City, right? I'm fun.) Anyway, I cover theater in New York, and you can't throw a stone without hitting a JewÃâà...
Forward
April 1, 2018
Trump Wishes Jews A Happy Passover ... “During the sacred holiday of Passover, Jewish families around the world give thanks to God for liberating the Jewish people from bondage in Egypt and delivering them to the ... The Forward's independent journalism depends on donations from readers like you.
Forward
March 31, 2018
As Albany scrambles to pass a New York State budget before the holiday, one State Senator is using his unusual influence to demand that religious yeshivas be exempt from state education standards. The Daily News reported Friday that the demand by Senator Simcha Felder, who is key to theÃâà...
Forward
March 31, 2018
Johansson, who is Jewish, is now on board and the character of the son still needs to be cast. Taika Waititi penned the script and will produce alongside Carthew Neal and Chelsea Winstanley. Production is expected to start this spring, Variety reported. In Europe, the issue of rescue of Jews by non-JewsÃâà...
Forward
March 31, 2018
Leaders of a handful of Jewish establishment groups met with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince in New York this week, the Jerusalem Post reports. AIPAC, the American Jewish .... The Forward's independent journalism depends on donations from readers like you. Now you can double your donation! SimplyÃâà...
Forward
March 31, 2018
Superman is super strong, like the Golem. He passes as human, just as Jews sometimes pass as non-Jewish. The evidence is clear. He's Jewish. Right? ... has gotten popular in recent years: As one example, in 2013 Larry Tye wrote an article for the Forward called “10 Reasons Superman is Really Jewish.
Forward
March 31, 2018
But with the Egyptian Jews, we are fortunate to have thousands of commonplace documents — discarded letters and prayer books, business agreements, wedding contracts and shopping lists — most of them from the medieval period when Cairo was an economic and intellectual center of the Jewish worldÃâà...
Forward
March 30, 2018
For elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union, the war might be long over but the battle for daily survival rages on. ... There are 100,000 needy elderly Jews in the former Soviet Union and about 600 Jewish volunteers giving their time, money and energy to help deliver ... Shira Feder is a writer for the Forward.
Forward
March 30, 2018
This has led many Jewish organizations to condemn anti-Semitism, contrary to what Jonathan Weisman wrote in a recent op-ed in the New York Times, entitled “Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Why Aren't American Jews Speaking Up?” Weisman argues that Jewish leaders here in the U.S. “have been remarkablyÃâà...
Forward
March 29, 2018
According to a new survey conducted by The Peace Index, 37 percent of Israeli Jews are liberating themselves from cleaning their homes for Passover ... 63 percent of the Jewish public will clean their homes of all chametz, the survey reports, and 67 percent will eat kosher-for-Passover food both inside andÃâà...
Forward
March 28, 2018
“I want to draw your attention to this — I do not believe this is a coincidence. This tragedy occurred on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover.” Nikiforov noted that several Russian disasters took place around Jewish holidays. “For me, this is clearly ritual sacrifice of the Chosen People. I do not believe inÃâà...
Forward
March 26, 2018
Wadler, who is African-American and Jewish, had organized a walkout at her elementary school in Alexandria, Virginia as part of a national protest on .... The marking of the new Polish holiday to celebrate Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust comes amid a diplomatic crisis between Poland andÃâà...
Forward
March 26, 2018
Cuomo's Jews-Can't-Dance Joke Falls Flat At Black Church ... New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tried to make a joke about Jews not having “rhythm” at a black church on Sunday, the New York Post [reported.]( ... The Forward's independent journalism depends on donations from readers like you. Now youÃâà...
Forward
March 26, 2018
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The organizers of the March for our Lives, not one of them over 20, had a gun control agenda packed with specifics. They were able to get 800,000 people on and off of Washington D.C.'s Pennsylvania Avenue in three hours. They attracted A-list celebrities. But in the end, the eventÃâà...
Forward
March 26, 2018
The marking of the new Polish holiday to celebrate Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust comes amid a diplomatic crisis between Poland and Israel, which protested the passing last month of legislation in Poland that criminalizes blaming Poles for Nazi crimes. Jewish groups said the law limitsÃâà...
Forward
March 26, 2018
In 1943, the Forward already had a long history of advocating for the rights of Jewish immigrants — in 1917, calling on President Wilson to overrule a bill ... placed on Jewish immigration in the early 1920s; reporting from Havana in 1926 about the thousands of Russian Jews forced to stay there when theÃâà...
Forward
March 25, 2018
Diner maintains that he also viewed his philanthropy as a refutation of stereotypes of Jews as greedy, dishonest and tribal. Nonetheless, although he contributed to many, many causes, Rosenwald invested enormous time and resources on “projects that promised to enrich Jewish culture, bring Jews intoÃâà...
Forward
March 24, 2018
Top American Jewish organizations agreed last year to adhere to rules that ban them from attacking each other, the Forward has learned. The rules, which regulate the discourse of American Jewish leaders, have never been publicized, and are unknown to the vast majority of the constituents of theÃâà...
Forward
March 24, 2018
Last week, a D.C. Councilman named Trayon White took to Facebook to claim that the Rothschilds control the climate. That European business dynasty has for many years been the stand-in for Jews in the minds of anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists who see the Jewish family empire, and by extension JewsÃâà...
Forward
March 10, 2018
Ann Coulter, the arch-conservative talking head who frequently complains about Jews and has white nationalist sympathies took to Twitter Thursday night to call Jews “globalists. ... Jewish boys typically have an aliyah l'Torah when they turn 13, an age that in Judaism is when a boy becomes a man.
Forward
March 10, 2018
(JTA) — The California Senate reprimanded Sen. Bob Hertzberg over his habit of hugging people following complaints by two female legislators and a male sergeant-at-arms. Hertzberg, who is Jewish, received a reprimand for his trademark hugs in a letter sent to him by the Senate Rules Committee, theÃâà...
Forward
March 10, 2018
Vladimir Putin reportedly has suggested that Jews could have been responsible for meddling in the American presidential election. In a combative new interview with NBC News, the Russian strongman went off script to name possible scapegoats for the campaign to boost then-candidate Donald Trump.
Forward
March 10, 2018
Ann Coulter, the arch-conservative talking head who frequently complains about Jews and has white nationalist sympathies took to Twitter Thursday night to call Jews “globalists. ... Jewish boys typically have an aliyah l'Torah when they turn 13, an age that in Judaism is when a boy becomes a man.
Forward
March 9, 2018
An Orthodox Jewish school for girls in London blacked out the word “homosexual” from an official textbook, along with references to women and men hanging around together, according to a report in The Guardian. The textbook, titled “Understanding the Modern World,” is part of the official curriculum of theÃâà...
Forward
March 9, 2018
Putting aside the age-old question as to who is a Jew, it is unlikely that Arctic explorer and adventurer Peter Freuchen was Jewish (See February's “Who Knew” column). It may be adventurous to explore the possible Jewish background of the towering, red-bearded Dane, but without anything moreÃâà...
Forward
March 9, 2018
In Batya Ungar-Sargon's recent article reporting on this year's AIPAC conference, I was especially struck by her quoting a “Jewish community leader” who told her that “the Pew [Research Center] study and other data suggest that well over half of American Jews do not participate in Jewish life. In the courseÃâà...
Forward
March 9, 2018
If you think Farrakhan is irrelevant, it's likely because you haven't been spat in the face or heard your children cursed in the street. Watching the tepid response to the Women's March Louis Farrakhan controversy, I can't help but feel despondent. Even with a few voices in the Jewish media speaking out,Ãâà...
Forward
March 9, 2018
Modeled after Yeshiva University in the United States, The Jewish University of Moscow is a private institution with a student body of 200 whose budget comes mostly from donors and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, dean Alexander Lebedev told JTA earlier this week. The universityÃâà...
Forward
March 9, 2018
Jew. We Only Wanted Peace On Earth” hints, in its title, at the desperation inherent in early 20th-century Jewish utopianism. Peace on Earth was a long shot. Yet nothing less could ... It's no wonder that socialism had such a draw for so many Jews — shoutout to the first subscribers to the Forward! — or thatÃâà...
Forward
December 31, 1999
Our president continually stirs up controversy, but one thing we can all agree on is that he's faithful — not to one woman, but to a particular type. He requires a shapely body with ample breasts, topped by a face that almost demands to be photographed, and he seems disinterested in those who are Jewish.
Forward
December 31, 1999
As a graduate student in Pittsburgh and London between 2007 and 2015, I sometimes felt that only Orthodox groups such as Aish HaTorah and Chabad sponsored activities for Jews my age. These groups succeed because they engage in active outreach (kiruv) and create a charismatic vision of Judaism,Ãâà...
Forward
December 31, 1999
At 10:00 a.m. on March 14th, over 100 kids from my small high school walked out onto a busy street carrying signs with messages like “Arms are for Hugging” to show support for Parkland victims and other gun violence victims. As we walked to the park next to our school, cars honked and drivers raised fistsÃâà...
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