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Culture WATCH NOW: December 3: Healing Racial Divides – Lessons from Chicago
Watch the recording here. How can Black and Jewish congregations find meaningful ways to help heal America’s racial divisions? What role can Jews of Color play in communal approaches to racism and justice? Join Cydney Wallace, activist and co-founder of Kol Or, JCUA’s Jews of Color Caucus; Pastor Chris Harris of Bright Star Church; and…
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Culture Louise Glück, Jewish poet of classical themes, wins the Nobel Prize
In the maelstrom of coronavirus, Borough Park protests and vice-presidential debates, finally some good news: Poet Louise Glück has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The granddaughter of Hungarian Jews who ran a New York grocery, she is the first Jewish literature laureate since Bob Dylan, who took the prize in 2016. The Swedish…
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller tests positive for COVID-19, the disease that killed his grandmother
Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Donald Trump, has tested positive for coronavirus. The New York Times reported that Miller tested positive Tuesday after a series of negative tests. Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, contracted the virus this spring. She is Vice President Mike Pence’s communications director. Miller’s grandmother, Ruth Glosser, died from COVID-19 in…
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News ICYMI: Catch up with the Forward’s coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
We know many Forward readers were offline for Rosh Hashanah and may not have seen our coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death over the weekend. So we put together this guide to the stories we have published — and some of our favorite Jewish stories from while the justice is alive. Like most news outlets,…
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News Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away. Here are some of our favorite Jewish stories from her life.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away at the age of 87. The cause was metastatic pancreatic cancer. Over the years, the Forward collected some remarkable stories of Ginsburg’s life, as they related both to her story judicial career and her status as a pop culture icon: “Notorious R.B.G.” Here are some of…
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Fast Forward San Francisco State University president stands behind terrorist Leila Khaled speaking appearance
San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney is standing behind the decision to allow a Palestinian terrorist to participate in a university event via Zoom. A university official told the Forward that an e-mail in support of Leila Khaled speaking at a university event did in fact come from Mahoney. In the e-mail, Mahoney wrote…
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Culture October 1: Election town hall —New York and the 2020 election
This talk will take place on Thursday, October 1 at 7:00 p.m. ET/ 4:00 p.m. PT. Register here. With the pivotal 2020 presidential election around the corner, it’s essential to stay informed about the election’s potential impact on New York and understand how to be engaged in the voting process. Joining us for the conversation…
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News One of our reporters is becoming a rabbi. Here’s a look back at some of his best journalism.
Today is Aiden Pink’s last at the Forward — his last, actually, as a professional journalist. He is leaving to go to rabbinical school, as he explains in this personal essay. He has promised to continue to contribute — an occasional column through his first year at the Jewish Theological Seminary, for starters. In four…
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