For 125 years, the Forward has delivered accurate, timely and nuanced news to American Jews. From breaking news to in-depth investigations, our reporting team covers the people, institutions and issues that define the many ways to be Jewish in the…
News
-
Bagels & Ballots: Counting the Days
Counting on Labor: Two candidates included in our Races to Watch are the subjects of negative union-backed ad campaigns: Pat Toomey for Pennsylvania senate, and Mark Kirk for Illinois senate, Republicans both. In Pennsylvania, the union will announce $2 million in campaign efforts, including a push for voter turnout for Democrat Joe Sestak. In Illinois,…
-
Attacks From the Jewish Right Continue in Pennsylvania
Joe Sestak, the Democratic Pennsylvania senatorial candidate, just can’t seem to shake off attacks from right-wing Jewish groups. First he was targeted by the Emergency Campaign for Israel in TV ads questioning his support for Israel, mainly because of his decision to join a letter calling for easing the Israeli siege on Gaza. Later he…
-
Bagels & Ballots: Bring on the Opera
Musical … politics: As the California senatorial race heats up, EMILY’s List is stepping in, with a new Women Vote! independent expenditure effort to rally ladies around incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer. Women Vote! is kicking off their spot in the fight with a television ad: a male tenor warbles, “Fiorina, Fiorina, Fiorina; we all…
The Latest
-
The Rhetoric Turns Red Hot as Election Day Approaches
With two weeks left to the midterm elections, races are heating up, and in some, what civility there was is fading fast. In Illinois’ 9th District, indefatigable Republican Joel Pollak kept on going after incumbent Democrat Jan Schakowsky, claiming she was not supportive of Israel. It’s a theme that has been taken up against several…
-
Without Protest or Funding, Columbia Opens Center for Palestine Studies
In 1969, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir famously denied the historical existence of the Palestinians as a people. Forty-one years later, there is now officially an academic center on the campus of Columbia University devoted to the study of Palestinians and Palestine. Whether what’s touted as the country’s first campus-based center for Palestine studies becomes…
-
Bibi: Redraft Loyalty Oath To Include Jews
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered Israel’s justice minister to redraft the loyalty oath amendment to include Jews. Netanyahu on Monday said the new amendment to the Citizenship Act, which requires a pledge of allegiance by non-Jews to the Jewish and democratic state of Israel, should include Jews seeking Israeli citizenship under the Law of Return….
-
Yid Lit: Rachel Botsman
If you pay for a membership to Netflix or Zipcar, if you’ve gone to a clothing swap, a potluck or given or gotten anything from Craigslist, you’re participating in “collaborative consumption,” the phenomenon of sharing, swapping, borrowing and lending that Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers write in their new book, “What’s Mine is Yours” (Harper…
-
Bagels & Ballots: The Discovery Channel’s Newest Star?
Fire in Florida-22: This weekend, Allen West, the far-right candidate for representative to Florida’s district 22, home to many Jewish retirees, was hit by a big one: according to NBC’s Lisa Myers, he has ties to a motorcycle gang known as The Outlaws. In an email, West campaign’s called the attack a “political hatchet job.”…
-
Reporters’ Roundtable: The Loyalty Oath
Israel’s decision to change its oath of allegiance, and thus require all new citizens — regardless of religion — to pledge their loyalty to “a Jewish and democratic state,” is the subject of the latest Forward Reporters’ Roundtable. Editor Jane Eisner and staff writer Gal Beckerman join host Josh Nathan-Kazis for the discussion. <strong>Subscribe to Forward…
-
Iconic Synagogue on the Upper West Side Faces Tough Uphill Financial Battle
Four decades after Lincoln Square Synagogue moved into its rounded building near Lincoln Center, the iconic Modern Orthodox congregation on Manhattan’s Upper West Side is facing an uncertain future, following the decision to halt construction on its new building and the resignation of its president. LSS, the subject of public attention this year after former…
-
Auditioning Actors To Stop The Ohio Free Fall
As Democrat Lee Fisher, Ohio’s Jewish lieutenant governor, struggles in the polls, he seems to need all the help he can get in his race for senator of the Buckeye State. Indeed, a new poll put him 22 points behind Rob Portman, his Republican opponent and former Bush official. Formerly, Fisher, who now polls at…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Unarmed man who tackled Bondi Beach Hanukkah attacker identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed
- 2
Fast Forward First Puka Nacua, now Mookie Betts: Why do sports stars keep getting antisemitic around a Jewish streamer?
- 3
Fast Forward After MIT professor’s killing, Jewish influencers spread unverified antisemitism claim
- 4
Opinion I grew up believing Australia was the best place to be Jewish. This Hanukkah shooting forces a reckoning I do not want.
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion His family was killed in Sydney. Hours later, he helped feed 600 unhoused people in LA.
-
Fast Forward Yehuda Kaploun confirmed by Senate as Trump’s antisemitism envoy
-
Holy Ground One of America’s first Jewish farms was nearly lost to history. Now these Brooklyn parents are risking everything to keep their family’s legacy alive.
-
Fast Forward Liberal Zionist groups criticize Trump administration’s travel ban on those with Palestinian Authority passports
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
