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Culture WATCH NOW: Being Jewish in the Time of Coronavirus
This event already taken place. Watch the video recording here. Join our live panel discussion, “Being Jewish in the Time of Coronavirus.” Jodi Rudoren, the Forward’s Editor-in-Chief, is moderating weekly conversations with Jewish leaders working to build community through this crisis. Our inaugural episode on Tuesday features Andrés Spokoiny, President and CEO of Jewish Funders…
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Culture WATCH NOW: Jodi Rudoren to moderate: “Deal of the Century”: What Now for the Israeli Left?”
This event has already taken place. Watch the video recording here. Listen in as Editor-in-Chief Jodi Rudoren moderates a Partners for Progressive Israel webinar, “‘Deal of the Century’: What Now for the Israeli Left?” with Aluf Benn, Editor-in-Chief of Haaretz and Akiva Eldar, columnist for Al-Monitor’s Israel Pulse. Donald Trump and Binyamin Netanyahu recently announced…
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Fast Forward Here’s how Israel’s borders would change if Trump’s peace plan is enacted
President Trump on Tuesday unveiled what he has called the “Deal of the Century” — a peace proposal for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The 180-page plan goes into great detail about how the land swaps would go — and you can read our summary by clicking here. One of the toughest issues in past negotiations has…
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Culture March 2: Washington D.C.: Jodi at the AIPAC Policy Conference
Forward editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren will be a featured moderator at this year’s AIPAC Policy Conference, which will take place March 1-3 in Washington, D.C. The panel, called “Israel in the U.S. Media,” is on Monday, March 2 from 2:15 to 3:15 p.m. To find out how to become a friend of the Forward and get…
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News Here are the first reactions to Trump’s peace plan
In a briefing at the East Room of the White House, President Trump unveiled a new peace plan that would preserve Israeli control of Jerusalem and settlements in the West Bank, while endorsing a Palestinian state and promising billions in dollars to help develop it. Even before the speech had ended, journalists, commentators, and thinkers…
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Culture February 20: Manhattan: Museum at Eldridge Street hosts ArtSee: Photos from the Jewish Daily Forward
Join the Museum at Eldridge Street on February 20 at 11:00am for a special family program where they’ll take a look at selections from the exhibition Pressed: Images from the Jewish Daily Forward. Children will get the chance to examine photographic prints and historic pages from the Forward newspaper and make their own works of…
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News Of Herzl, Einstein, Chagall and George Kennan: Memories of working with YIVO’s librarians
The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is the world’s preeminent center for the study of Yiddish language and culture. Founded in Vilna in 1925, YIVO is now based in New York and includes an academic center, an archive with 23 million item, and a library with 400,000 books. On Monday, that YIVO’s board, facing a…
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Life Pride And Anxiety: 23 American Jews on choosing to wear their Jewishness
A middle-aged man tattooed a Star of David on his forearm. A secular man put on a kippah outside of synagogue — for the first time in his life. An Orthodox woman chose to wear a headscarf instead of a wig — to ensure that her identity is clear. A Jewish Sunday school teacher designed…
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