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Culture Backward: A Video
[ ![][2]][2] In the spirit of Purim, Forward staffers set out to learn what New Yorkers knew about Jews. Produced and edited by Allison Gaudet Yarrow []: https://forward.com/backward-purim/
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Culture A Kindler, Gentler Jihad
[ ![][2]][2] Palestinian Islamic Jihad is undergoing a multimillion dollar image makeover and will now be known simply as “jihad,” the militant organization announced in February. Hired to enhance its reputation as a “cutting-edge” radical group, the public relations firm AKPD has taken immediate action. The firm has amended the logo to make it more…
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Books Bubby Blurbs
First there were book trailers, then there were Old Jews Telling Jokes, and now, for his forthcoming book “Jew and Improved,” Canadian author and National Post editor Benjamin Errett has combined the two online video genres. To promote Errett’s book, which documents his conversion to Judaism, Errett’s wife (and the book’s illustrator) Sarah Lazarovic created…
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News Poet and Partisan Avrom Sutzkever Dies
Avrom Sutzkever, who died January 20 at the age of 96, was not only a great Yiddish poet but is acknowledged as being one of the great poets of the 20th century. For several years he had been ailing and living in a nursing home in Tel Aviv. It was a city upon which he’d…
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Life Rosh Hashanah, Times Square Style
With Rosh Hashanah preparations in full swing, do New Yorkers really need a last minute reminder that the High Holy Days are nearly upon us? Just in case, the Koshercart is likely to do the job. A 7 feet wide, 16 feet long and 14 feet tall motorized shopping cart bearing apples and honey, the…
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Life Not To Brag But…
The Forward scooped up 10 Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, it will be announced today at the annual conference of the American Jewish Press Association. A release on the honors is below: The Forward, America’s most influential Jewish weekly newspaper, garnered ten 2009 Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, the…
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Fast Forward From Our Archives: Garment Workers’ New Chief Says ‘We’re Still a Jewish Union’
This article was originally published in the July 20, 2001 edition of the Forward. Bruce Raynor hasn’t finished moving into his new office, but it already bears his stamp. The walls and bookshelves are filling up with memorabilia reflecting his past as a 1960s-era leftist and his new status as president of a major international…
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Life Young Jewish Woman Wins Rohr Prize
In the three years since it was founded, the Sami Rohr Prize — the winner of which will be announced this week — has become one of the most prestigious awards for Jewish writing. Given out, in alternating years, for works of fiction and non-fiction, the Prize is also the most lucrative of its genre…
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