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By Chana Pollack
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Culture How Doug Emhoff embodies a very specific form of Jewish joy
Speaking in Paris at the site of a deadly 1982 antisemitic attack, Emhoff displayed a defiant 'glik'
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Culture The Yiddish wisdom of Tim Walz
In declaring 'We'll sleep when we're dead,' VP candidate Walz was invoking a particularly Yiddish philosophy and work ethic
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Culture ‘Weird’ is a good word to describe your political opponent — Yiddish has a better one
At some point, Tim Walz and the Democratic party will need a word other than 'weird' to describe Republicans; Yiddish can help
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Yiddish World Why are Yiddish speakers talking about JD Vance and bedbugs?
The 'vants,' once ubiquitous among poor Lower East Side residents, appears in a number of humorous Yiddish expressions
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Archive On the brink of a new Iran Deal, our Iran coverage through the decades
The task of illuminating the complexity of Jewish life in and in relation to Iran is one the Forward has always taken seriously.
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Archive ‘Everywhere, there was death’: The Forward’s groundbreaking coverage of disaster in Ukraine — in the 1930s
The Forward’s reporting became a primary source of American information on the Holodomor, a devastating famine.
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Yiddish World Still no NYC monument for the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust
Warsaw Ghetto survivor Arthur Nunberg called for this in a 1973 speech near the UN but all the city provided was a temporary plaque.
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125 years ago, the Forverts entered a vibrant Jewish world
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