Helen Chernikoff is the Forward’s News Editor. She came to the Forward from The Jewish Week, where she served as the first web director and created both a blog dedicated to disability issues and a food and wine website. Before that, she covered the housing, lodging and logistics industries for Reuters, where she could sit at her desk and watch her stories move the stock market. Helen has a Master’s of Public Administration from Columbia University and a BA in History and French from Amherst College. She is also a rabbinical school dropout. Contact her at chernikoff@forward.com and follow her on Twitter at @thesimplechild.
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News Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner tested negative for COVID-19 on Friday: White House spokeswoman
A White House spokeswoman announced that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner had tested negative for COVID-19 on Friday, just hours after news broke that President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive. .@IvankaTrump and Jared Kushner were tested again today for COVID-19 and both are negative. — Carolina Hurley (@CLH45) October 2, 2020…
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Life ‘The taste of disappointment:’ Learning about the loss of RBG over brisket and honey cake
Mark Hetfield didn’t know why he was making a tuna casserole for Rosh Hashanah dinner, traditionally brisket and chicken, on Friday night. But in the end he was glad he did. In the middle of their meal, he and his family and friends learned that Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. Tuna casserole, in turns out,…
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Life It’s Rosh Hashanah! Send this holiday card to the mishpokhe you can’t hug
For more than 500 years, Jews have been sending each other Rosh Hashanah greetings to feel connected, despite the long distances that separated them. Now that coronavirus has made it difficult, again, to gather in person, the Forward invites you to join us in reviving the tradition of sending and receiving these holiday cards —…
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Life Why so few Jews in romance novels? This author and bookseller is leading a charge to change that
“Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency” is one book you can judge by its cover, which depicts aristocratic men, faces covered by pink splotches, and aristocratic women … holding cans of spray paint. The non-fiction book, released earlier this month, is about the female artists and scientists, women of color, queer women and…
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News A Kenosha rabbi speaks, as violence surrounds her synagogue
The killings in Kenosha, Wis. on Tuesday night of two people protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake happened one block from Kenosha’s historic synagogue. Beth Hillel Temple sits on a park along with a library and other public buildings. The Reform synagogue’s position in the center of this small, lakefront town is no accident….
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Fast Forward Kimberly Guilfoyle invokes ‘cosmopolitan elites’ in RNC speech
Kimberly Guilfoyle, a Trump campaign executive and the girlfriend of Donald Trump, Jr., used the phrase “cosmopolitan elites” — which invokes an anti-Semitic dogwhistle — in her speech during the Republican National Convention on Monday night. . @kimguilfoyle invokes “cosmopolitan elites” in her #RNC speech. “Do you support the cancel culture, the cosmopolitan elites of…
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News At RNC and DNC, two Jewish dads from Parkland, and two very different views on guns
Two dads, themselves born in the same year. Both Jewish. Both New York-area transplants to Florida, who didn’t think much about politics, until their daughters were shot dead by a gunman in 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Now Andrew Pollack and Fred Guttenberg are lauded as authorities on gun violence and…
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News A bunch of Jewish things about Biden veep pick Kamala Harris, from her in-laws to Israel
Kamala Harris’ selection as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s vice-presidential candidate is a first in more ways than one. She’s the first Black woman on the ticket; also, the first South Asian. But … she’s the second VP pick to have Jewish in-laws, the first being Joe Lieberman, who ran as Al Gore’s running mate…
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