Elicia Brown is a writer living in Manhattan.
Elicia Brown
By Elicia Brown
-
Community Seriously, Prayer Is Helping Me Fight Cancer — Here’s How.
Last week on Rosh HaShanah, I looked out at the sea of faces in synagogue and declared: “Today, I stand before you, my heart full of joy for having made it to this day. I am not cancer-free, but the medications I’m now taking are gentle, and are controlling the disease.” The congregation erupted: Amen….
-
The Schmooze JDate Hooks You Up With Your Old Camp Flame
Kurt Hoffman (JTA) — Beth and Jeff Kopin are one of an estimated 700 married couples to have met at one of the Conservative movement’s Ramah camps. The Kopins, who fell in love at Ramah Wisconsin in the 1970s, went on to raise a flock of “Ramahniks.” “There’s this family feeling if you meet another…
-
Culture Day Schools See Future With Non-Jews
Before sending her 6-year-old son, Charlie, off to day school in September, Brenda Hite wondered if she’d made the right decision. Neither Hite nor her husband, Tom, are Jewish, but the public school options in their hometown of Akron, Ohio, didn’t enthrall them. So they applied to the local Lippman School, which impressed the Hites…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion Elon Musk is doing everything conspiracy theorists accuse George Soros of
- 2
Fast Forward ‘Modern-day Mein Kampf’: NYC Mayor Adams under fire for Hitler reference as calls for his resignation mount
- 3
Fast Forward Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X?
- 4
Opinion Why does Trump’s Gaza plan sound so familiar? Because the Nazis tried it first
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Eric Adams said he’d ‘collaborate’ on immigration enforcement — so did Vichy France during WWII
-
Fast Forward German Jews express alarm after J.D. Vance’s comments boost far-right AfD ahead of election
-
Fast Forward At Tel Aviv’s Hostage Square, Israelis mourn — and vow to keep fighting for the captives who remain
-
Fast Forward ‘It took the Nazis one month’: Pritzker compares Trump’s policies to 1930s Germany
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
