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
-
DeLay: Dems Are Now Like Hitler
Tom Delay is on a book tour — which explains why he stopped by the Forward offices Tuesday for a chat. More on that later. The book, “No Retreat, No Surrender,” has generated a bunch of press, but it’s clear that Jewish Democratic activists haven’t read it. Or else they would have jumped all over…
-
Hillel Director, Students Defend Tactics at Carter Speech
Pro-Israel critics of former president Jimmy Carter have accused him of avoiding debate over his new book in several recent appearances on campuses across the country. Now, however, one Hillel director and several Jewish students are being accused of attempting to control the microphone during the question-and-answer session following Carter’s talk at George Washington University….
-
Bill Clinton: AJC Has My Back Against Carter!
The American Jewish Committee has been on the defensive over its decision to publish Alvin Rosenfeld’s “‘Progressive’ Jewish Thought and the New Anti-Semitism.” But Bill Clinton is happy with the organization’s efforts to rebut the arguments of one prominent critic of Israel: Jimmy Carter. Check this out from the most recent AJC News Update… President…
The Latest
-
More Biden: Let Israel Talk to Syria
Joe Biden told our Jennifer Siegel that the Bush administration should not be blocking Israel from talking peace with Syria. Click here for the article and the full transcript of the interview.
-
Presidential Hopeful Slams Bush for Stance on Syria
Delaware’s Joseph Biden, a senior Democratic senator and presidential candidate, said in an interview this week that the Bush administration has wrongfully kept Israel from opening negotiations with Syria and has missed key opportunities to improve political realities in the Middle East. “It is a mistake not to let Israel, if it wishes to, if…
-
Forward Interview: Biden Rejects Clamoring For the Greater U.S.-Israel Distance
As the liberals clamor for greater distance between the U.S. and Israel, one of Washington’s most vocal critics of the administration’s Middle East policy is vowing to keep the two countries joined at the hip if he is elected president. Delaware Senator Joseph Biden rejected the notion that the U.S. needs to become a more…
-
Billary Takes Manhattan; Not All Supporters Are Going Steady
When Senator Hillary Clinton addressed one-thousand supporters at a Manhattan fundraiser on Sunday night, her to-do list for America was long: provide universal health-care; increase America’s energy independence; expand head-start; make college affordable; boost science research; return fiscal responsibility to government, and restore America’s standing in the world. Oh, and “change direction” on Iraq. After…
-
NORPAC: We Didn’t Snub Obama
The leader of Norpac, a powerful pro-Israel political action committee based in New Jersey, has rejected a blogger’s assertion that the group “has a problem” with presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama, based on an email that Norpac sent out to its members. Yesterday, Ben Smith of the Politico blog argued that Norpac had provided “another…
-
Cheney Links Action on Iran To Winning Iraq
Washington – The Bush administration and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert are pressing the Jewish community to support the war in Iraq, arguing that American failure there would hurt Israel’s security and America’s efforts to thwart Iran’s nuclear program. Vice President Dick Cheney made the argument during a speech Monday to an estimated 6,000 activists…
-
Bill Calls for Canceling Poor Nations’ Debt
In biblical times, the existence of the Sabbatical year was a boon to anyone plagued by the habit of overspending: Every seven years, all debts were forgiven, those literally enslaved to their debts were freed and community members were set back on equal footing. Now, in a fresh twist on an ancient Jewish tradition, a…
-
Lawsuit Over Chabad Building Puts Rebbe’s Living Legacy on Trial
The neo-Gothic brick building at 770 Eastern Parkway, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, has become the defining symbol of Chabad Lubavitch as the ultra-Orthodox movement has spread around the world with its philosophy of reaching out to all Jews. The building was once the headquarters of the Hasidic movement’s grand rebbe, Menachem Mendel…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Culture He works at a Holocaust museum by day. How’d he end up in ‘Marty Supreme’?
- 2
News The ADL’s turn away from civil rights was years in the making — Oct. 7 accelerated it
- 3
News The Holocaust Torah that survived a Mississippi synagogue fire was brought there by the state’s only survivor
- 4
Culture The mysterious case of Barbra Streisand and the missing half-pound of Zabar’s sturgeon
In Case You Missed It
-
News Julie Menin wants to be a bridge in the Mamdani era
-
Antisemitism Decoded How an ‘all-American boy’ became a Mississippi synagogue arson suspect
-
Opinion Is the ‘Board of Peace’ just another Trump scam, or a real move toward Middle East peace?
-
Fast Forward Penn calls Trump administration demand for list of Jewish employees ‘disturbing and unconstitutional’
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
