News that Israel might be home to an oilfield of its own created great excitement in the Jewish state this summer. But growing concern among citizens about who stands to benefit from the country’s natural resources has cast a shadow over that late August discovery. That’s because the state will see less than one-quarter of…
The High Holy Days might incline most Jews to think of fish as a traditional food served on deli trays after Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services. But the Jewish Museum?s new exhibition, ?Fish Forms: Lamps by Frank Gehry,? asks us to think more deeply about how fish have influenced the work of one of…
Want some politics with your bagel and shmear? Now that the last big primary night is over and election season is in full swing, we at the Forward bring you Mitz-Vote, a blog that covers all things Jewish and political. Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman identified several key races that include Jewish candidates or where…
The Tea Party upsets in New York and Delaware are the big news items from yesterday’s primaries. But the key question now, of course, is: Is it good for the Jews? Christine O’Donnell and Carl Paladino can credit much of their success to their use of tough rhetoric and straight talk on issues of taxes,…
This past Sunday, I took the kids to our synagogue?s tashlich at the beach where we threw bread into the ocean to symbolically cast off our mistakes of the past year. At the beach, we saw several of our friends, so after the ritual was over, we took the kids for lunch. When the kids…
?atima tova ? literally ?a good seal? ? we wish each other before and on Yom Kippur, just as we say on Rosh Hashanah, l?shana tova tikatev, ?May you be written down for a good year.? This is, of course, a reference to the Jewish belief that on Rosh Hashanah, God writes down everyone?s fate…
It may sound like the setup for an old joke: It?s dinner time and three gentile kids ? one Latino, one black and one white ? are waiting impatiently for a slow Shabbos elevator to arrive. The punch line comes with a real punch: Turns out the kids are hungry athletes from a boxing camp…
As election season shifts into fever pitch, Carly Fiorina returned from Israel last week. And her trip was … personal? That’s what her aide told the L.A. Times before she left. But unless you’re, say, Madonna, personal trips generally don’t involve meetings with VIPs like Tzipi Livni, Shimon Peres, and Benjamin Netanyahu, right? Fiorina, the…
Congressman Joe Sestak’s signature on what is now known as the Gaza-54 letter has been at the center of attacks launched against him by Republicans and right-wing groups as he campaigns now for the Senate in Pennsylvania. The letter, signed by 54 Democratic members of Congress, called for an easing of Israel’s blockade of the…
Polls A new September 27 Los Angeles Times poll gave incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer 51%, an eight point lead over Republican Carly Fiorina’s 43% of the vote. There was a 3.3-point margin of error. The results mirror a September 20 poll by Public Policy Polling showing Boxer leading with 50% over Fiorina’s 42% with a…
Polls Democratic Rep. Ron Klein faces off against Republican Allen West, a retired lieutenant colonel who served in Iraq. A Sept. 20-22 poll conducted by Harstad Strategic Research gives Klein 48%, a five-point lead over West’s 43% among 504 likely voters. Klein beat West by 10 points in the last election cycle. Congressional Quarterly is…
