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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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Culture Watch: Peter Beinart, Jodi Rudoren chat Israel, 2020 elections
Join Forward editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren in conversation about Israel with Peter Beinart, CUNY professor, editor at large for Jewish Currents, contributor to The Atlantic and author of “The Crisis of Zionism”. Their discussion, “Is Peace Possible?,” will take place on February 9 at 5 p.m. at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, NJ. To find out…
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Culture January 27: LA: Breakfast With Jodi Rudoren
Join Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of The Forward, and Rachel Fishman Feddersen, CEO and publisher, for breakfast and a conversation about the future of Jewish journalism, the Los Angeles Jewish community, and how the two can best connect. Jodi, a former LA Times journalist, and Rachel will host the gathering at Temple Emanuel Beverly Hills on…
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Culture January 27: LA: Discussing Media Coverage of Israel
While visiting Los Angeles, Forward editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren will host a conversation at Valley Beth Shalom about media coverage of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli politics, American Jewry and contemporary anti-Semitism. Come with questions — there will also be an audience Q&A. The event is on January 27 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. RSVP details…
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Yiddish פֿילם וועגן ביילע שעכטער־גאָטעסמאַן וועט מען ווײַזן אין דרײַ לענדערFilm about Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman to be screened in three countries
דער פֿילם וועבט צונויף אינטערוויוען מיט דער פּאָעטעסע און מיט די מענטשן וואָס האָבן זי גוט געקענט, ווי אויך אירע קונסטבילדער.
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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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