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Life Rabbis Share Their High Holiday Sermons
Here’s the thing about High Holiday sermons: if you don’t like one, or don’t quite get the point, just wait — there will be another one coming soon enough. Over the weekend, we published a group of excerpts from sermons that 65 rabbis shared with us ahead of Rosh Hashanah. The overriding theme was anti-Semitism,…
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Culture November 16-17: Stockholm, Sweden: Yiddish Forward In The Digital Age At Limmud Stockholm
If a Swedish trip is in your near future, don’t miss Rukhl Schaechter, editor of the Yiddish Forward (Forverts), as she gives three talks at the Limmud Stockholm conference the weekend of November 16 and 17. The first talk, “How the Yiddish Forward Is Being Transformed in the Digital Age,” will delve into how Schaechter…
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Culture Brian Epstein: A Timeline Of The Jewish Beatle
On this day in 1934, Brian Epstein — future manager of The Beatles — was born. In celebration of what would have been Epstein’s 85th birthday, here’s a look at some of the highlights of the life of “The Fifth Beatle.” 1934 Born on Yom Kippur to Jewish parents who lived on Rodney Street in Liverpool…
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Culture November 13: Baltimore: Reflections Of An Orthodox Journalist
Join Forward Life editor Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt.” Avital, who also teaches journalism at Yeshiva University’s Stern College, will explain the challenges of speaking truth to power, reporting on her own community, and navigating modernity and tradition at Beth Tfiloh Congregation on November 13 at 7 p.m. After her talk, there will be a Q&A led by…
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Culture Lauren Bacall’s 6 Greatest Moments
Born Betty Joan Perske, the daughter of Jewish parents in the Bronx, Lauren Bacall would soon became the epitome of New York cool. She was the slim, caustic partner of Humphrey Bogart, whom she married at the age of twenty and starred with in such films as “To Have and Have Not,” “Dark Passage,” “Key…
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Culture Happy 103rd Birthday to Roald Dahl — Beloved Author and Vile Anti-Semite
Born on September 13, 1916, Roald Dahl, the beloved author of “Matilda” and “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” would have turned 100 today. It’s an anniversary we mark with admiration and a bit of uncertainty as well. For, aside from his brilliant imaginaton and wicked sense of humor, Dahl was also something of an…
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News Submit Your Questions About Next Week’s Israeli Elections
Jodi Rudoren, the Forward’s brand-new Editor-in-Chief, covered not one but two Israeli elections (2013 and 2015) during her tenure as Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times. Now, with Israelis heading to the polls next Tuesday for the second time in less than six months, Jodi is ready to answer your questions about Israeli…
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