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Philip Roth doesn’t live here anymore: A writer, a stonemason, an American friendship
Editor’s Note: This essay, originally published by the Forward on May 17, 2020, won this year’s Deadline Club award for arts reporting. Philip Roth and Russ Murdock trudged through the woods behind Roth’s Litchfield, Conn., home, looking for Roth’s tombstone. It was summer, 2008 or 2009. The crickets were singing. The estate, a 200-year-old former…
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How I found freedom through dialogue
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Emily Bernstein Dunkel, a 17-year-old student at the Fieldston School in New York, NY. You can find more work from our young writers here It was June 26th, 2019 when I left my…
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Freedom means doing the right thing
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Ezra Cutler, an 11-year-old student from the Jewish Community Day School in Boston. You can find more work from our young writers here. Freedom to me is something that all people should have….
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Will ‘Scarface’ return to its Jewish roots?
Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen are polishing the script to a reboot of “Scarface” for director Luca Guadignino. The sentence reads like a screen trade Mad Libs, but it is true nonetheless. The partnership seems like an odd one. But it’s actually a pretty good match. The Coens, after all, directed “Miller’s Crossing” and, having…
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I know a home
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Lois Geraldine Proeller, a 7th grader at Sutton Middle School in Atlanta. You can find more work from our young writers here There is never a day that passes by when Robin doesn’t…
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‘NW DC’ — a poem
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Ana-Sophia Mostashari, a 17-year-old student at Georgetown Day School in Bethesda. MD. You can find more work from our young writers here NW DC This town stands on a tightrope. A breeze threatens…
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Free To + Free From = Freedom By
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Ellery Bergman Chudnow, a 16-year-old student at New York’s Eleanor Roosevelt High School. You can find more work from our young writers here “To” is such a small, seemingly insignificant preposition, but it…
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‘All my socks are face masks now’ – Life in the new abnormal
“Are you going out at all?” friends called to ask, each of us struggling to interpret self-distancing during the latter part of March. “Old-people shopping hour is my new happy hour,” I quipped, adding, “I’m glad I never had my eyes done. Even with my mask, they know to let me in.” Those of us…
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What it means to be free in 2020
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Kayla Nickfardjam, a 17-year-old student at Miliken Community School in Los Angeles. You can find more work from our young writers here What it Means To Be Free in 2020 Today I lay…
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What freedom means to me
Editor’s Note: The Forward is featuring essays, poems and short stories written for our Young Writers Contest. Today’s entry was written by Zachary Levy, an 11-year-old student at New York’s Schechter School. You can find more work from our young writers here The word free can mean many things, it just depends on who you…
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May 28: Better-than-Ratner’s Blintz
Join Rob Eshman, national editor of the Forward and creator of @Foodaism for a live demonstration of his wonderful lemon blueberry blintzes. Better than Ratner’s? We think so. Follow along with the recipe. This is part of our new series, “#ForwardFocus: Talks in Trying Times,” in which Forward editors are moderating weekly talks with Jewish…
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