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Who would marry a Nazi leader — and why?
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler’s Germany By James Wyllie St. Martin’s Press, 288 pages, $28.99 It is a cliché of Holocaust history to remark on the jarring contrast between the domestic lives of Nazi perpetrators and their murderous deeds. Reinhard Heydrich, one of the key architects of the Holocaust, was also…
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I watched 6 hours of election coverage – I hope you didn’t
On November 8, 2016, I voted in the morning, then spent the early afternoon into the late evening in a bar in the West Village. I was in my first semester of journalism school and reporting a none-too-astute trend story about watering holes showing — and courting patrons with — broadcasts of non-sports-related content. “Game…
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When COVID hit, I went home to my parents. For Election Day, I came home to New York.
My roommate and I struck out early to vote Tuesday morning. Close to our polling place, a school in deep Brooklyn, we began to pass strangers wearing voting stickers. It wasn’t a very New York thing to do, but we waved at them, and they waved back. I couldn’t help it: despite the extenuating demands…
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10 Twitter users who’ll help you survive election night
Even with a pandemic, where the calendar pages melt like something out of a Dalí painting, you surely know today is the first Tuesday in November — and all that goes along with that. Some people are abjuring the slow churn of results to return to Jewish ritual. Many will be glued to their news…
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At 92Y, a quiet coda to an “exhausting” election season
Half an hour before sunrise on Election Day, New York City’s 92nd Street Y opened its doors to voters. About 60 people had already gathered outside, presumably hoping to beat the crowds. “People are very excited and voting like their lives depend on it,” said Aristotle Rosario, 44, one of the poll workers stationed outside…
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November 5: Elections and the Jewish Community
This talk will take place on Thursday, November 5 at 3:30 p.m. ET/ 12:30 p.m. PT. Register here. Forward editor in chief Jodi Rudoren joins Andrew Silow-Carroll, editor in chief of the Jewish Week and Jonathan Tobin, editor in chief of JNS for a post election analysis hosted by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs….
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Max Rose and Nicole Malliotakis’ campaign ads tell an ugly love story
I have never lived in New York’s 11th Congressional District, and yet I know that its incumbent congressman, Rep. Max Rose, is a hypocrite who has “betrayed the Blue.” I know this because his challenger, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis — a “first-class fraud” who has profited off of the opioid crisis — told me so. I…
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Heschel, Lipstadt, Wisse and Schneerson are here — but is that enough?
The New Jewish Canon: Ideas & Debates 1980-2015 Edited by Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire E. Sufrin Academic Studies Press, 492 pp, $39.95 What might now be called “the old Jewish canon” would consist of the Tanakh, Mishnah, and Gemara, as well as a few other widely studied texts such as “The Guide for the Perplexed”…
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November 11-19: the Forward partners with DOC NYC
The Forward is excited to partner with DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the US. This year’s festival will take place completely online, so audiences across the country can tune in and watch films anytime between Nov 11-19. We are delighted to provide you with a discount code for $3 off tickets to…
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November 11: A Bintel Brief – A JArts TheatreWorks Stage Reading
This event will take place on Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00 p.m. ET/ 4:00 p.m. PT. Click here to register. The JArts TheatreWorks group proudly presents a staged reading of “A Bintel Brief.” The Bintel Brief was a Yiddish advice column that started in the early 20th century by Abraham Cahan, the editor of Der…
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WATCH NOW January 14: From civil rights to anti-racism
Watch a recording of the talk here. Watch as we took a look back and forward at the relationships among Blacks and Jews and the complexities across our interwoven communities. Join Professor Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Professor Marc Dollinger, author of “Black Power, Jewish Politics;” Ginna…
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