‘Mitzvah Mania’: A Los Angeles synagogue is hosting a show with Jewish professional wrestlers
The play on WrestleMania is the passion project of a rabbi who started a wrestling company
Fast Forward
-
Law that would bar Congo’s only Jewish politician from presidency is under consideration again
Moise Katumbi is the son of a Congolese woman and a Greek Jewish refugee from the Nazis
-
-
A court ruling has transformed — and limited — the way New York state can regulate yeshivas
A judge in Albany ruled that the state no longer has the power to effectively force yeshivas to close for not teaching secular studies in a way that is 'substantially equivalent' to education in public school.
The Latest
-
It’s a date: Netflix’s ‘Jewish Matchmaking’ debuts May 3
'Finding your person is the hardest thing to do in the entire world,' matchmaker Aleeza Ben Shalom says in the show’s trailer. 'And that’s where I come in.'
-
In American first, Manhattan jury indicts Donald Trump, who promptly invokes Soros
Trump has called for protests in case he is arrested, which could come as soon as next week
-
New HBO series to spotlight Natalie Portman’s role in bringing a women’s soccer team to LA
'Angel City,' which Portman produced, will premiere in May.
-
Georgia’s Jewish legislator promises to keep fighting after antisemitism bill fails to come up for a vote
The bill, which would codify an official definition of antisemitism, could be before the Senate again in January
-
Montreal’s oldest synagogue building vandalized with swastikas
“While the congregation is small, the synagogue evokes Jewish history in Montreal and the attack on it is causing dismay in the community,” a former city councilor wrote in a letter to the city’s mayor
-
Margot Stern Strom, who founded pioneering Holocaust education program Facing History, dies at 81
A curriculum launched in 1976 broke a 'powerful silence' about racism and antisemitism in American schools.
-
New York pulls polio vaccine slogan over antisemitism allegations
State politician says the slogan ‘Polio is spreading in Israel. Get immunized now’ harkens back to anti-Jewish tropes
-
Horror director Ari Aster calls his new movie ‘Beau is Afraid’ a ‘Jewish Lord of the Rings’
'For me, the film is like a big Jewish comedy,' he said in an interview about the difficult-to-categorize epic starring Joaquin Phoenix.
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
- 2
Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
- 3
Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
- 4
Music ‘No matter what, I will always be a Jew.’ Billy Joel opens up about his family’s Holocaust history
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture Rabbi, get your gun
-
Opinion How I got AI to create fake Nazi memos — and what that means for the future of antisemitism
-
Fast Forward How the Jewish commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ could help a woman challenge Kentucky’s abortion ban in court
-
Yiddish ווידעאָ: יוטוב־פּערזענלעכקייט רעדט אויף ייִדיש וועגן אַ משפּחה־טראַגעדיעVIDEO: Youtube personality speaks in Yiddish about a tragedy in the family
מאַטי מענדלאָוויטשעס ברודער, וואָס האָט יאָרן לאַנג געליטן פֿון דעפּרעסיע, האָט הײַיאָר זיך גענומען דאָס לעבן. .
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
