By Nathan Guttman
Several thousand illegal Jewish immigrants live in the U.S. without proper papers, sharing a legal limbo with millions of newcomers from Mexico and Latin America.
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By Gianna Palmer
A new Tenement Museum walking tour of New York’s Lower East Side tells the quintessentially American story of immigrants and their food.
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By Forward Staff
Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman is reportedly interested in taking ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner’s spot.Read More
By Forward Staff
The Forward swept the 30th Simon Rockower awards Wednesday night, winning a record 13 awards, including nine first-place honors that recognized journalistic excellence in every section of the weekly newspaper and the overall quality of its website, forward.com.Read More
By Naomi Zeveloff
Orthodox rabbis fought it. Reform rabbis championed it. But just what are Conservative rabbis to do now that New York has sanctioned gay marriage?
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By Nathan Guttman
Hadassah, the storied women’s Zionist organization, has shut down offices throughout the country and plans to spin off Young Judaea, its affiliated Zionist youth group, in part to offset recent financial setbacks, including a $45 million payment to the federal government related to its unwitting participation in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
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By Andrew Tobin
Young Jews want to give back more than ever, but a new survey finds that few of them are volunteering through Jewish service organizations.
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By Nathan Guttman
For 24 years, James Besser has been watching Jewish politics from up close. As the unofficial dean of the Washington Jewish media corps, the veteran reporter of the New York Jewish Week, who retired June 22, has been uniquely positioned to observe how the world of Jewish politics has changed and how, in many senses, it remained the same.
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By Josh Nathan-Kazis
What differentiates The Times’s new executive editor, Jill Abramson, from her predecessors is in some ways obvious and in other ways subtle.
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By Ben Sales
America’s LGBT synagogues often have a much more complicated relationship with the Jewish state than do their mainstream counterparts.
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