This week on the Forward Roundtable, reporter Josh Nathan-Kazis sits down with staff writer Gal Beckerman and speaks via phone with Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman. They discuss the extent to which American officials see U.S. interests as being in line with Israeli interests, the resurgence of long-dormant dual-loyalty fears among American Jews, and just how involved U.S. generals are in shaping Middle East policy.Read More
The first in a series of podcasts jointly produced by the Forward’s Sisterhood blog and the Jewish feminist magazine Lilith features Forward and Lilith staffers discussing a range of Jewish women’s issues. On the agenda: the debate over what Orthodox women serving in rabbinic roles should be called, Jewish women in the business of advice, and food’s growing importance in Jewish dating and mating rituals. Forward editor Jane Eisner, Lilith editor Susan Weidman Schneider and Lilith associate editor Melanie Weiss join The Sisterhood’s Gabrielle Birkner in the Forward studio.Read More
Reporter Josh Nathan-Kazis recently spoke with editor Jane Eisner and, via phone, with Washington-based staff writer Nathan Guttman about the murky story of Anat Kamm. A 23-year-old Israeli woman, Kamm is awaiting trial on espionage charges, stemming from allegations that she leaked classified Israeli military documents to a newspaper reporter. In this podcast, Forward staffers take a look at what’s known about the contents of the documents at issue, at the case’s similarities to America’s Pentagon Papers leak during the 1970s, and at how the Kamm affair has impacted the relationship between the Israeli government and the Israeli press.Read More
Forward reporter Josh Nathan-Kazis sits down with colleagues Gal Beckerman, a staff writer, and Larry Cohler-Esses, the news editor, to discuss President Obama’s push for new U.N. sanctions against Iran. They weigh in on which trade-offs will be necessary to get Russia and China to support the sanctions, the coded language that Jewish leaders use when discussing how to curtail Iran’s nuclear ambitions and to what extent the Iran issue and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process are linked.Read More
This week on the Forward podcast, editor Jane Eisner provides a look at what’s in the April 16 issue of the Forward, Allison Gaudet Yarrow sits down with writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret and Jeremiah Lockwood performs the second installment of his Nigun Project, alongside Brian Chase of the “Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs.”Read More
This week on the Forward podcast, editor Jane Eisner provides a look at what’s inside the April 2 edition of the newspaper, and Web editor Gabrielle Birkner sits down with author Elisa New, the author of “Jacob’s Cane: A Jewish Family’s Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore,” (Basic Books) about her decade-long quest to unravel her mysterious family history.Read More
Forward editor Jane Eisner on what’s in the March 26th edition of the Forward.Read More
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