Pride of Judea Children’s Home
The Forward frequently reported on news and events at Pride of Judea orphanage.
A 4th of July walk with The Forward
Join us for a walk in the steps of early immigrants exploring their new American lives in the city?
Yiddish Coney Island
Coney Island’s beach, while refreshing for sure, was also where “ beauty and crudity go hand in hand and launch a united front.”
A Juneteenth l’chaim for African-American labor organizer Frank Crosswaith
Prescient in running for public office while Black, Crosswaith also intuited the question still haunting the progressive movement today.
‘You read the Forward backward’: 15 readers recall their dads’ love for our paper (and that joke)
Pat Koch Thaler, whose brother Ed went on to become Mayor of New York, recalled their dad, an Austro-Hungarian immigrant furrier, falling asleep with The Forward on his lap. Their mother, she said, saved “the paper after it was read to put on the kitchen floor after she washed it before Shabbat. “
Some koved for covid
Given shelter at home rules, you’d think a Yiddish svive (reading group) might be the first casualty, but they are just zooming right along.
‘She helped me learn Yiddish reading the Forward:’ 16 readers recall their mothers’ love for our paper
These are among the more than 165 stories that poured forth when we asked you, to share your memories of your mishpokhe’s connection to our paper.
Mit mazl geyert zikh! It’s our 123rd birthday!
On April 22, 1897, The Forward published our very first issue.
From the archives, Influenza 1918: Till death do us part
George Abbot of Yonkers, NY, sick with influenza, wanted to marry his girl Sarah Cohn, of Waltham, Massachusetts, before breathing his last.
From the archive, 1959: Passover in Castro’s Cuba, yearning for freedom
When Castro took control of Cuba, he put curbs on religious practice, forcing Azriel Weitz to write to the Forverts, begging for Passover supplies.