The Forward has just released The Forward 50, an annual list of men and women who have impacted the American Jewish story in the past year. In this week?s Reporters? Roundtable, host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with Forward editor Jane Eisner and managing editor Lillian Swanson about how the list is compiled, and who?s on it….
In a special edition of this week?s Yid Lit podcast, Isaiah Sheffer, founding artistic director of New York?s Symphony Space and host of National Public Radio?s ?Selected Shorts,? reads from the newly rereleased novel by Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, ?The Magician of Lublin? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Below, a transcript of the conversation…
Here’s a Jewish politician you don’t hear much about: Gabrielle Giffords, the Democrat running for her third term representing Arizona’s 8th congressional district. She is in a tight race (just like pretty much every other Democratic incumbent this cycle) and her race has hardly attracted any national attention. But now, Giffords’ Jewish faith is creeping…
It is yet another round in the endless debate over what impact the issue of Israel has on this election cycle. None, claims a new J Street poll. Well, at least not in the one race they checked – that of Illinois 9th congressional district, where Democrat Jan Schakowsky faces continuing accusations about not being…
Author and Jewish food connoisseur Joan Nathan may be best known for her award-winning cookbooks on Jewish cuisine in America and Israel. But long before any of those projects began, there was Paris. Like so many people, Nathan first fell in love with food in the City of Light, where she traveled as a teenager…
Ohio Looking Very, Very Red: While several election battles are waging in Ohio, the fight appears to be over for one Democrat: Senatorial candidate Lee Fisher, the state’s Jewish lieutenant governor. Even after boosts from actors Matthew Morrison and Martin Sheen, Fisher turned over his small lump of $100,000 in campaign cash over to the…
Is voting a mitzvah? That depends whom you ask. Jewish Values Online, the website that adheres to the Jewish tradition of asking the rabbi, presented the question to three rabbis from three denominations. They all agree that voting is a good idea and the right civic thing to do. But are we required as Jews…
Vetting for 2012: With less than a week to go until midterms, it’s safe to say the 2012 presidential race is warming up. The Democratic National Committee has already approached the Pentagon to learn about potential Republican opponents—part of its early stage opposition research. According to ABC News, The DNC has filed Freedom of Information…
We have just published the 2010 Forward 50 list. What do you think of our choices? Who should have made the list? We invite your feedback in the comments section below.
ACCORDING TO RUPERT MURDOCH, HONOREE AT ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE GALA: ?THE WORLD CAN?T END TODAY BECAUSE IT?S ALREADY TOMORROW IN AUSTRALIA? ?I can?t say I have been chosen by God. But tonight I am honored to be chosen by His people for this award,? declared Rupert Murdoch, who accepted the Anti-Defamation League?s International Leadership Award from…
Almost everyone seems ecstatic about the biggest arms sale in U.S. history, a recently announced $60 billion deal with Saudi Arabia. The celebrants include the Saudis, who will receive hundreds of high-end aircraft; American defense firms that will pocket huge profits from the agreement; unions whose members will have ample assembly lines to staff; and…
