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Why this Zionist rabbi has stopped saying the Prayer for the State of Israel
“I hope that this government falls and is replaced by something better,” Rabbi Jeremy Kalmanofsky explained
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The Santos story shows the truth matters. And so does journalism.
The Santos saga is a testament both to why journalism matters and to how our much our industry is struggling today
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Would you have dinner with these 125 American Jews?
Bob Dylan and Debbie Friedman? Hannah Arendt and Jackie Mason? Our Forward 125 makes for a legendary Shabbat dinner table
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Artist Nidaa Badwan escaped repression in Gaza. Now she’s taking on Iran.
'Every part of my body wants to talk about this story,' Badwan said
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How news veteran Ben Smith got his start in journalism — at the Forward
As a summer intern in 1998, he 'fell in love with journalism, with beat reporting'
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What I’m grateful for this Thanksgiving, from A to Z
Our editor-in-chief gives thanks to pelotons, Zoom, dad jokes and Kanye West (but not for the reason you may think)
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Harvey Weinstein tried to pressure NYT’s Jodi Kantor ‘Jew to Jew’
'She Said' shows pivotal breakthrough came after Kantor built 'authentic Jewish connection' with Weinstein's accountant
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Is it time to hit the panic button in our synagogues?
After FBI warns of 'credible threat,' 60% of preschoolers at my synagogue didn't show up this morning
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Is Kanye’s antisemitic vitriol seeping into our schools and streets?
A superintendent's vague condemnation falls flat in a district with its own real problems
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‘Things have souls’: How a handwritten letter from 1879 became a very special bar mitzvah tallit
This tallit weaves multiple generations and cherished family artifacts into its fabric
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The raw truth about ‘The Raw Truth About Lox’
A parable as much about how the internet works as how food memories are made
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