Nora Berman is the Forward’s deputy opinion editor. You can email her or follow on Twitter @noraeberman.
Nora BermanDeputy Opinion Editor
By Nora Berman
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Opinion Jewish, Asian and taking over Broadway: meet the next great musical star-in-the-making
The original Evan alternate in the Toronto premiere of 'Dear Evan Hansen,' Zachary Noah Piser is more than ready to step into the lead role full-time.
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Opinion ‘I’m not scared of anything anymore’: what it’s like leaving Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor
'I have nightmares from the memories,' Harry Olmer told me as we walked to Birkenau. 'But I’m not scared of anything anymore.'
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Opinion To memorialize their salvation, survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto built a sewer
The Warsaw Ghetto Survivor’s Memorial is designed to look like a sewer — once the source of weapons, of food, of information for Jews stuck in the ghetto.
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Opinion ‘Never forgive and never forget’: Why would a Jew live in Poland post-Holocaust?
On a recent trip to Nozyk Synagogue and the Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw, our deputy opinion editor describes how the of the weight of past atrocities affect Jewish perceptions of reality today.
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Opinion I’m joining this year’s March of the Living. It may be the last to include survivors
In 2019, 70 Holocaust survivors walked the historic route from Auschwitz to Birkenau. This year, there will only be eight.
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Opinion Activists are calling to ‘globalize the intifada.’ It’s a call for death, not peace
In the span of one week, three separate terror attacks in Israel have claimed the lives of 11 innocent people. Those killed included Arab, Druze, Jewish and Christian citizens of Israel, and two Ukrainian nationals. A young father who was taking his infant son for an evening stroll died protecting his child from bullets in…
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Fast Forward Queer activists gather in NYC to support Ukraine — Jewishly
“Queer people anywhere are responsible for queer people everywhere,” a sign read outside of the Stonewall Inn in New York City Saturday afternoon, where activists gathered outside of the historic LGBTQ+ rights landmark to express solidarity with marginalized Ukrainians as they face persecution under the invasion of Russian troops that began earlier last week. In…
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News 26 miles West of Russia, Ukrainian Jews hunker down and wait
When Dovid Margolin spoke to the rebbetzin of Kharkov before Shabbat, he could hear heavy artillery fire in the background. While he didn’t notice any panic in her voice, she quickly moved to make sure her family had started heading to the synagogue basement. Kharkov, the second-largest city in Ukraine, is just 26 miles west…
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