In This Week’s Yiddish Forward
• In our color supplement: photos of Passover from the Forward archive, and the Abel Pann exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
• We reprint a rare article on the origins of the Haggada by Isaac Bashevis Singer from when he used the pseudonym “Yitskhok Varshavsky.”
In This Week’s Russian Forward
• An interview with Israel’s foreign minister, Silvan Shalom.
• An article by Vladimir Yedidovich titled “Defending Sharon.”
• A Russian-Jewish activist from Starrett City, Brooklyn, met in Israel with former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir. They spoke in Yiddish.
• In our youth section: an interview with Ariela Ginzburg, the 11-year-old daughter of the Russian town Samara’s chief rabbi.
This Saturday on ‘The Forverts Hour’
Saturday, April 10, at 9:00 p.m. on WMCA New York, AM 570
• “This Week in the Yiddish Forward” — Mikhl Baran
• “Passover Songs, Part Two” — Itzik Gottesman
• “Advice From a Depressed Person” — Kobi Weitzner
• “Abraham Karpinovitch: ‘The folklorist’” — Dovid Rogow
Why I became the Forward’s editor-in-chief
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief.
And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over. We urgently need the Forward’s courageous, unflinching journalism — not only as a source of reliable information, but to provide inspiration, healing and hope.
, editor-in-chiefSupport our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
