A weekly letter from our editor-in-chief, Jodi Rudoren, with a personal take on the news, Jewish issues, and journalism.
Forward Newsletters
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What you and I are repenting for this Yom Kippur
For the sins we committed by... holding grudges... ranting... mistrusting... and being impatient
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Eggs or meat? More lessons from my weekly shift at a local food pantry
Oatmeal and black beans are big sellers, diapers are like gold and, it turns out, so are eggs
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How do you turn Saturday into Shabbat?
A local cafe owner closed for the Jewish day of rest. Revenue is down 12% but his spirit is up
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“Three Minutes”: a 1938 film shot in Poland sparks connection among 300 descendants of a lost Jewish community
The faces of the children follow you in the film, hauntingly, because you'll never know most of their names.
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What I learned about the Holocaust playing a game called ‘Gestapo’
There is no good strategy for choosing when to risk family, community, religion, civil liberties and life itself
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What I learned moderating a congressional candidate debate
They like seeded bagels. They love Israel and hate BDS. And one of them can't seem to follow a countdown clock
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The big question nobody’s asking about Andrew Yang’s new political party
‘Not Left, Not Right. Forward.’ may be a losing political formula but its not a bad mantra for a news organization
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‘The people’s temple,’ where condos now sell for $2 million
For the Forward’s 125th anniversary, our editor went on a pilgrimage to the newspaper’s landmarked headquarters on the Lower East Side
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My generation of parents is ruining sleep-away camp
Hopeless helicopters insist on optimizing their offspring's every experience, anathema to the essence of camp
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The story behind the stories: How our journalists produced award-winning work last year
Our editor-in-chief reflects on the Forward’s record-breaking haul at the Jewish Pulitzers
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‘We don’t live in the abstract’: 3 Jewish women on the fall of Roe v. Wade
Forward editors process the reversal of 50 years of abortion access.
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