From baseball to boxing to football, Jews have been shining stars on American sports teams for generations. Two-time American League MVP Hank Greenberg hit 58 homeruns in 1938, just two shy of Babe Ruth’s single season record. Featherweight champion Abe Attell, who won his first fight in 1900 at the age of 16 when he…
This month is set to be a historic one for the Forward. It is, of course, our 110th anniversary — cause enough for celebration. But we are marking this milestone in a uniquely symbolic way: Rather than simply looking back at our first century, we are inaugurating several projects that will bring us, thrillingly, into…
The Forward was known for its stable of erudite Yiddish writers, whose stories reflected the lives of the paper’s immigrant readership. One such prolific scribe was Jacob Adler, who, under the penname B. Kovner, wrote a much-loved humor column that sketched the everyday foibles of life on the Lower East Side. His most iconic character,…
Legendary editor Abraham Cahan and writer Isaac Bashevis Singer
Rudy Giuliani will be on hand at the Jewish Theological Seminary next Thursday, for a lunch honoring lawyer Randy Maestro. The former NYC mayor is scheduled to give the keynote address.
The evil mad scientists at evilmadscientist.com created a faux tiramasu recipe for Passover, called Tiramatzah. They swear that matzah + coffee + mascarpone = “without doubt, the best tiramasu I’ve ever made.” Will some brave soul please make this before Passover ends, and let us know how it tastes? Recipe copied below: Tiramatzah is a…
The lecture topic was “The Threat to Israel’s Existence.” The speaker was Daniel Pipes, a Middle East analyst known for his hawkish pro-Israel views and sharp denunciations of Islamic extremism. The setting was the University of California, Irvine, a campus with a national reputation as a hotbed of anti-Israel rhetoric. Students wearing Palestinian kaffiyehs clustered…
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency has a story up about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to the Middle East. The article includes a conversation with Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Congress. “I can get behind a foreign policy based on diplomacy and negotiation,” Ellison reportedly told JTA. “Nancy Pelosi…
Defying Senate Democrats, President Bush gave a recess appointment yesterday to major Republican donor Sam Fox, a St. Louis businessman who recently stepped down as head of the Republican Jewish Coalition. Fox, who was appointed as ambassador to Belgium, had come under fire for contributing to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The Senate Foreign Relations…
Jerusalem — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi drew public objections from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this week, after she reportedly relayed a message to Damascus that Jerusalem was ready to open peace talks with Syria. Pelosi was reported to have delivered the message Wednesday during her meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad,…
The New York Civil Liberties Union has a release out this morning about a complaint the group is filing today on behalf of a health care provider at Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson. The NYCLU is charging that a Rite Aid pharmacist who refused to fill a patient’s prescription for refill doses of Emergency Contraception should…
