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By Forward Staff
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Culture December 3: Manhattan: ‘Never Is Now’ Summit On Anti-Semitism
The Anti-Defamation League’s 2018 “Never Is Now” summit on “Antisemitism and Hate” will take place on December 3 in Manhattan. Buy tickets here. Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner will be a panelist at this year’s ADL conference, which is designed to discuss the rise in anti-Semitism and what drives it. She is joined on the roster…
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Culture December 2: Brooklyn: Big BKLYN Hanukkah Fest
Celebrate the first night of Hanukkah at City Point Brooklyn. Co-sponsored by the Forward, the festivities will feature the best of the holiday: Katz’s latkes, candle lighting, dreidels, dancing and more. There also will be tastings, readings and a photo op with the Mensch on the Bench. Join the Party Sunday, December 2, 2 p.m….
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Food The 2018 Forward Food Choice Award Winners Are In!
Our readers showed up in spades to vote this year. Hundreds of you leapt at the opportunity to declare fealty to your favorite restaurants, cafes and delis. And we heard you! The competition was tight, as lots of competitors threw their hats in the ring for a chance at the Forward Food Awards crown. Yet…
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Fast Forward Hate-Crazed Synagogue Shooter Tells Police: Jews ‘Committing Genocide’
The hate-crazed gunman charged with shooting 11 worshipers to death at a Pittsburgh synagogue was carrying a long gun and three handguns to the rampage — and later told cops he “just wants to kill Jews.” Robert Bowers was due to make his first court appearance on Monday as more details of the attack emerged…
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Fast Forward VIDEO: Pittsburgh Synagogue Rabbi Calls For A Stop To ‘Words Of Hate’
In a vigil on Sunday night, Rabbi Jeffrey Myers who was presiding over the service at the Pittsburgh synagogue Tree of Life on Saturday when the gunman murdered praying congregants called on leaders to “stop the words of hate.”
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Fast Forward 97-Year-Old Rose Mallinger Was ‘So Full Of Life’ And Attended Synagogue Every Week
Correction Appended Rose Mallinger was 97. But she sure didn’t look or act her age. Chuck Diamond, a former rabbi at Tree Of Life, said Mallinger, who was the oldest victim of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, would never miss a service. “She was a synagogue-goer, and not everybody is,” Diamond told the Washington Post. “She’s…
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The Schmooze Tell Us Your Voting Story
We here at the Forward are deeply passionate about voting — as Jane Eisner wrote eloquently here — and we want to hear your stories! We’d love to hear from you about your Election Day experience. What are you doing to celebrate voting this year? How are you celebrating the first vote of someone in…
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News ‘All These Jews Must Die’ Gunman Kills 11 In Pittsburgh Synagogue
A gunman shouting “all these Jews must die” killed at least 11 people and wounded several others at a Pittsburgh synagogue during Shabbat services Saturday morning before being captured alive. In what is thought to be the first-ever mass shooting at an American synagogue, a “bearded heavy-set white male” identified as Robert Bowers, 46, walked…
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