By Naomi Zeveloff
For two months, two women traveled through Gaza learning about traditional foods and the stories behind them to create what is likely the first cookbook on Gazan home cooking.
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By Josh Nathan-Kazis
On Philip Roth’s 80th birthday, 100 Roth dorks, news hounds and former Newarkers took a guided tour of the author’s childhood city, novels in hand.
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By Nate Lavey
American Jews are speaking out about one of the issues that is closest to their hearts: the right of women to pray as they please at the Western Wall in Jerusalem
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By Curt Schleier
Henry Grossman wasn’t a fan of the Beatles when he first started photographing them in 1964. But he wound up snapping thousands of shots of the Fab Four.
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Two authors walk into a bar … and debate Judaism, Brooklyn, and their own paranoia. For Ben Schrank and Joshua Furst, there’s no better time and place to chat.
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By Seth Berkman
The fastest-growing town of Lakewood, N.J. is home to a large Orthodox community. It also has a large homeless encampment — and the debate about it has split the community.
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By Paul Berger
Just one member of the Forward’s staff is always called ‘mister.’ Not publisher Samuel Norich, nor board chairman Jacob Morowitz, but copy editor Louis Katz.
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By Seth Berkman
Gaga, an addictive Israeli dodgeball-style game, is spreading from Jewish summer camps and day schools to the rest of America. Plus, it’s a great workout
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By Adam Langer
Emily Raboteau writes about searching for a promised land. She and Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts discuss what that quest means for blacks and Jews — in Harlem, Israel and worldwide.
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By Josh Nathan-Kazis
Amid circulation and financial pressures, the print version of the Yiddish Forverts will soon appear only biweekly. But its website will relaunch as a daily with more content and new features.
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Columbia Seeks To End 'Whites Only' Fellowship
Reform Rabbi Urges Hebrew Union College To Reconsider Decision on Intermarriage
Ultra-Orthodox Men Ditch All-Black Attire as Fashion Trumps Tradition
Israel's Shas, Right-Wing Kingmaker Party, Takes Sharp Turn to Left
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