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News Are you now choosing to wear your Jewishness on your sleeve? The Forward wants to hear more.
A Jewish woman attacked on the New York subway. Eggs lobbed at Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn. A mass shooting at a kosher supermarket in Jersey city, followed by a stabbing rampage in Monsey. In the past year, New York has seen a rise in anti-Semitic incidents, most of which target visibly Jews. And this fall,…
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News Attending the solidarity march in NYC? Here’s what you need to know
If you plan on attending Sunday’s “No Hate, No Fear” solidarity march in New York City here’s what you need to know. (Can’t attend the rally? The Forward will have a team of reporters and editors on the ground covering the event online, on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.) When and Where The march officially kicks…
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News Wanted: A few good interns
We need your help! The Forward is seeking one or more beginning journalists passionate about digital and audience — and the Jewish world — for paid internships reporting and writing news items. The interns will work up to 29 hours a week for $15 an hour. The initial term is 10 weeks but the internship…
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News Multiple People Stabbed At New York City Area Synagogue
At least five people were stabbed in a machete attack at a New York City suburb synagogue Saturday night. Read our updated report here. According to witnesses at the scene, the perpetrator came into the rabbi’s house in Monsey, N.Y. and started stabbing people. Witnesses say a person at the rabbi’s home took a small…
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Sponsored Beating The Odds
Helene Karlin knew something wasn’t right. It was the early ‘90s, and at 7 weeks old, her third daughter, Lindsay, wasn’t developing the same as her older two daughters. Getting a diagnosis was frustrating; one doctor determined she was blind, another said she was deaf. It wasn’t until Lindsay was 6 months old when the…
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Culture January 13-14: Miami, FL: Jodi at the Miami Jewish Film Festival
Don’t miss this year’s Miami Jewish Film Festival, running from January 9-23 in the Sunshine State. Forward editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren will get in on the action, interviewing Dani Merkin, the director of the documentary, “Aulcie” which continues the story of his award-winning film, “On the Map,” on Monday, January 13. Before the world-premier event, at…
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Culture Taffy Brodesser-Akner: The Internet Breaker
For Brodesser-Akner, 44, a child of divorce who grew up in Orthodox Brooklyn, the very act of reading popular novels was subversive. Now Brodesser-Akner, a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, has penned a gloriously racy literary one filled with New York Jewish characters surely based on those in her actual life. Yet…
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Culture Forward 50 | Adam Schiff: Impeacher-in-Chief (No. 1)
Until the Trump era, Rep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, was a respected specialist in intelligence and foreign affairs, and frequent journalistic source, but not a household name nationally. When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi handed Schiff, 59, the baton to conduct the impeachment inquiry as chairman of the Intelligence Committee, that all changed. Schiff was…
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