Seth Lipsky
By Seth Lipsky
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Opinion Jews died on Mayor Dinkins’ watch. Here’s why the Forward endorsed him anyway.
The death of Mayor David Dinkins is a sad moment for those who cherished New York as what he liked to call a “gorgeous mosaic.” The Forward had favored him when, in 1989, he narrowly won the mayoral race against Rudy Giuliani, who then was the United States attorney in the city. I was the…
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Culture Ab Cahan, the Jewish Newspaperman Who Kept the World Moving Forward
A portrait of Abraham Cahan is the first thing that greets a visitor to the Forward in New York City. It attracted me from the moment that I, then a young newspaperman in my midthirties, first stopped by the paper’s editorial rooms. It was early in 1983. Published in Yiddish and known as the Forverts,…
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Opinion The Forward Saw a ‘Pogrom’ in Crown Heights
‘Jewish homes were being attacked, windows broken. Jewish residents were cowering in the safest rooms of their homes. Sympathetic gentiles in the area were sneaking word to some of their Jewish neighbors to keep their lights turned off. Marauding bands of outside agitators were roaming around, blaming Jews. This was taking place not in, say,…
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