Lillian Swanson
By Lillian Swanson
-
Opinion Forward Wins Five Ippies for Multimedia and Print
The Forward took home three awards for multimedia as well as honors for best overall print design Thursday night in the Ippies contest sponsored by the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The annual Ippies competition pays tribute to excellence in journalism in the ethnic and community press in the New York City area. Nate Lavey,…
-
News Marching to Remember Triangle Fire
Marchers carrying symbolic shirtwaists hung on poles marched through the streets of Manhattan Friday on their way to a ceremony marking the 101st anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. The ceremony is held annually outside the building on Washington Place and Greene Street, where 146 workers lost their lives when a fast-moving blaze swept…
-
Opinion Judea Pearl Wins ‘Nobel Prize in Computing’
Judea Pearl, father of the slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, has been named winner of what is considered the “Nobel Prize in Computing,” a prestigious honor that also carries a $250,000 award. The Association for Computing Machinery announced Thursday it would give its 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award to Pearl, a professor at…
-
Opinion Judea Pearl: Anti-Zionism is Racism
Those who came to hear Judea Pearl speak last night at an event sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center‘s Museum of Tolerance might have expected to be offered an array of numbers, shown detailed charts or even be given a sense of whether anti-Semitism was getting better or worse. Instead, he handed them something else…
-
News The Jew and Hitler’s Bug
I should say from the start that I’ve never owned a Volkswagen Beetle. I did learn to drive a stick shift in one of them, somewhere south of Madrid, when it was my turn to drive. Three college pals who were packed into the “Bug” with me erupted in oaths with every mistake I made….
-
The Schmooze An Unscripted Moment With Stephen Sondheim
Last night, as a performance of “An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin” drew to a close, one of those unscripted, magical moments on Broadway unfolded before an appreciative crowd at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. As the audience cheered wildly and applauded the veteran stars for their musical theater revue of songs from such…
-
News Triangle Coalition Restarts Artist Search
The Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition is re-opening its search for an artist to design a permanent memorial to the 146 victims of the historic garment factory fire, one of the nation’s worst industrial blazes and a catalyst for major reforms in labor and worker-safety laws. The coalition, a confederation of about 250 groups dedicated…
-
The Schmooze Forward Columnist Masha Leon Honored by Poland
Columnist Masha Leon, who has covered social events for the Forverts and then the Forward for more than 30 years, was honored Thursday night by the government of Poland for her articles and other work that have helped further the understanding of Polish-Jewish lives, history and culture. The president of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski, pinned a…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
- 2
Antisemitism Decoded Israel is being blamed for Charlie Kirk’s death. Here’s what that conspiracy theory says about the far right’s divide
- 3
News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
- 4
Fast Forward ‘Murdered for speaking truth’: Netanyahu and US Jewish leaders mourn Charlie Kirk
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Banners, tacks and crashes: Protests lead pro cycling team to remove ‘Israel’ from its jerseys
-
Opinion Netanyahu’s pitch for Israel as ‘super-Sparta’ is a dystopian death wish
-
Yiddish פֿישמאַן־פֿונדאַציע זוכט פּראָיעקטן וואָס שטאַרקן ייִדישFishman Foundation seeking projects that bolster Yiddish
די פּרעפֿערענץ איז פֿאַר איניציאַטיוון וואָס מוטיקן קינדער און יוגנטלעכע צו רעדן ייִדיש
-
Fast Forward ‘I will not be silenced’: Josh Shapiro invokes assassination attempt in address on rising hate violence
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
