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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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Culture Zach Barack: Hollywood’s new hero
Just a few years ago, Zach Barack didn’t think he would ever tell anyone he was transgender. Now he’s living his truth in the most high-profile way possible after appearing in this year’s billion dollar-grossing blockbuster “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” where he became the first out trans actor to have a speaking role in a…
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Culture MaNishtana: Orthodox Polymath
MaNishtana (aka Rabbi Shais Rishon), 37, is a playwright, a rabbi, a commentator and — with his roman a clef “Ariel Samson: Freelance Rabbi” (2018) — a novelist, He is also a deft and acerbic observer of the intersections of race and faith, shining a spotlight on prejudice and ignorance faced by Jews of color….
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Culture Forward 50 | Eli Cohen: The rabbi trying to heal Crown Heights
Crown Heights, with its fraught history of black-Jewish tensions that erupted in riots 30 years ago, has this year seen a spike in violent attacks against the visibly Orthodox. Starting this summer, Rabbi Eli Cohen, executive director of the neighborhood’s Jewish community council, teamed up with a prominent black activist, Geoffrey Davis, to meet with…
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