The Forward This Week
In this week’s podcast, Forward editor Jane Eisner has a roundup of the stories in the March 3 issue of the Forward; Allison Gaudet Yarrow interviews Justin Taylor, author of the new story collection “Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever,” about secular Jewishness in the American South, and the American Jewish World Service’s Ruth Messinger offers her take on the devastation in Haiti — and what her organization is doing to help.
Why I became the Forward’s Editor-in-Chief
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