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- Traveling Forward Through Fast-Changing Cuba in Search of Its Lost Jews
- Missouri Republican Tom Schweich Commits Suicide Amid Jewish Ancestry 'Whisper Campaign'
- Jewish Lawyer Seeks Answers for 9/11 Victims
- Hillel BDS Controversy Fails To Overshadow Inspirational Harvard Civil Rights Panel
- Harvard Hillel Hosts BDS Supporter for Panel in Apparent Break With Policy
Forward Forum
- Benjamin Netanyahu’s Iran Exaggerations Now Clear for All To See
- Cheating Hasids Out of a Future
- Learning To Embrace the Hybrid Jew
Arts & Culture
- Cancer-Stricken Israeli Playwright Finds Comedy in Disease
- Of Rosanne Barr, King David Kalakaua and 9 Other Things About Jewish Hawaii
- Irving Kahn, Oldest Money Manager, Dies at 109
- The Occupations and Preoccupations of Arkadi Zaides
- An Unlikely Ghost Story From David Cronenberg
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Breaking News
- UCLA Student Quizzed About Jewishness in Judicial Board Interview
- Tom Schweich, Suicidal Candidate, Got $200K From Republican Jewish Donor Sam Fox
- Ira Rennert Ordered To Pay $118M for Looting Firm
- Leonard Nimoy, Played Logical Mr. Spock on Star Trek, Dies at 83
- Liberation of Shanghai Ghetto To Be Commemorated
- French National Front Candidate Blames Jews for Blocking Music Career
- Italy Lawmakers Push for 'Palestine' Recognition
- Netanyahu 'Bottle-Gate' Probe Put Off Till After Vote
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From William Shatner to Mayim Bialik celebs mourn the loss of our favorite Jewish Vulcan. RIP Leonard Nimoy. #LLAP 
Leonard Nimoy was a distant cousin of columnist Masha Leon. She remembers a man who was proud of his Yiddish roots — and whose grandfather loved the Forward! #LiveLongandProsper Leonard Nimoy passed away today at the age of 83. Read about the Jewish origins of Mr. Spock's most famous hand gesture. #LiveLongandProsper Missouri Republican and GOP hopeful Tom Schweich commits suicide amid Jewish ancestry 'whisper campaign'. Envelopes on the windshields of at least one of four vandalized cars in a Jewish neighborhood of #Montreal contained single bullets and the message “You Will Die.” 
Jerry Seinfeld, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Ricky Gervais Talk About #Hitler. Don't let the name fool you: Jerusalem U isn't a real university, but a far-right pro-Israel online group. Why did #Hillel president Eric Fingerhut agree to speak at their recent event? 
The substandard education provided in Hasidic communities is cheating #Hasids out of a future. A lawsuit in Canada offers a blueprint for reform. Matzo ball soup, corned beef sandwiches, coleslaw and pickles? Count us in! Deli Man opens February 27. Get your nosh on! 
Tablet writer Liel Leibovitz says we need to put a gun in the hands of every single European Jew. We explain why that's a terrible idea. 
The elusive English street artist #Banksy has produced four new works in the Gaza Strip, taking wry aim at the human toll of last summer's war. The 90-year-old Streit's Matzo Factory on the Lower East Side is turning out its last batch. Someone made a mini-series about Monica Lewinsky's life. And no, it's not about the parts of it you would've expected. Like circumcision itself, metzitzah b'peh goes back to Biblical times. But 19th century doctors — and rabbis — thought they reformed the rite for good. 
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