Deborah Waroff
By Deborah Waroff
-
Culture When France Embraced a Jewish Avenger
‘Vive la France, Vive la France!” Some 81 years ago this month, a person in Warsaw would have enjoyed the odd spectacle of a mob of Jews surrounding France’s Polish embassy, wildly proclaiming the greatness of the French Republic. The occasion: Jews everywhere were celebrating France because, after a sensational eight-day trial (which even made…
-
Israel News Radio Rabbi Creates Community Over the Airwaves
LONDON — Rabbi Lionel Blue is arguably the most popular Jew in the United Kingdom. He is funny and irreverent and considered by some to be an iconoclast. Cherub-faced rabbis who share recipes, pen travel books and yuk it up onstage in stand-up routines, after all, are few and far between. But mainly, Blue owes…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Ye debuts ‘Heil Hitler’ music video that includes a sample of a Hitler speech
- 2
Culture Is Pope Leo Jewish? Ask his distant cousins — like me
- 3
Opinion It looks like Israel totally underestimated Trump
- 4
Opinion The staggering hypocrisy behind Trump’s deal to free the last living American hostage
In Case You Missed It
-
Sports Israeli driver Robert Shwartzman won Indy 500 pole — then talked about the war
-
Fast Forward NYC mayoral candidate walks back ‘genocide’ accusation against Israel
-
Culture How Hitler and Ye sent a wish for fortune and good health straight to ‘Heil’
-
Opinion Two writers offer strikingly different views of the ‘state of the Jews’
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
