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
-
Pope Denounces Antisemitism During Synagogue Visit
As Pope Benedict XVI paid a historic visit last week to a synagogue in Cologne, Germany, and laid out his agenda for the future of Catholic-Jewish relations, his Jewish partners in dialogue were settling an internal skirmish over titles and authority. Despite the jockeying, Jewish leaders found time to praise Benedict’s speech, which included a…
-
Newsdesk August 26, 2005
U.N. Slammed on Banners Members of Congress and Jewish groups are demanding explanations from the United Nations over the use of United Nations Development Programme funds for the preparation of inflammatory banners by the Palestinian Authority in Gaza. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Florida Republican who chairs the House Subcommittee on the Middle East, sent a…
-
Fire Department Gets Jewish Chaplain
The Rockville Volunteer Fire Department is in the center of a heavily Jewish area of Maryland, but it was only last month that the 85-year-old fire department got its first Jewish chaplain. At their monthly meeting in July, the 225 members voted to accept a young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi, Chesky Tenenbaum, as a chaplain. Tenenbaum recently…
The Latest
-
Report Fuels Suspicion Over Aipac Probe
WASHINGTON — After a recently promoted State Department official was linked last week to spying allegations against the pro-Israel lobby, Jewish communal leaders are again suggesting nefarious motives behind the investigation. The New York Times reported August 18 that David Satterfield, the U.S. deputy chief of mission in Baghdad, was one of two previously unnamed…
-
Soldiers, Police Praised After Evacuating Settlements
EIN HASHLOSHA, Israel — As the residents of Netzarim, the last Israeli settlement in Gaza to be evacuated, left the area Monday, the respective commanders of the Israeli military and police southern commands, Dan Harel, a general, and police chief Uri Barlev, met the press in what was tantamount to a victory ceremony. They maintained…
-
Orthodox Groups Call for Support for Settlers
American Orthodox groups are gearing up to ensure that the needs of the settlers recently uprooted from Gaza are not ignored. Jewish organizations, including the Orthodox Union, already have established a number of financial campaigns to raise money for the needs of the settlers. But the most ambitious call for action came from the National…
-
Mirror Imaging
Throughout their century-old struggle over Palestine — or is it the Land of Israel? — Jews and Arabs often have vied with each other not only for the same land but also for the same words, the same images and the same conceptions of themselves, each side spinning a narrative that has been the upside-down…
-
Fly Me to The Moon
It’s like one of those logic problems from the SAT: Travel with children is hell. Travel in this age of attractively color-coded terrorism alerts is hell. Therefore, travel with children in the age of attractively color-coded terrorism alerts is a special total-mega googolplex super-hell, much like the process of reading a Bret Easton Ellis novel…
-
Reuniting, for The First Time
For several years, I had been working on a series of short stories about Jews in various states of exile: Eastern European Jews in America, New York Jews in Florida, Russian Jews in New England, Israeli Jews in New York, American Jews in Germany, Holocaust survivors in the Catskill Mountains. In writing these stories, I…
-
Synagogue Group Backs John Roberts Nomination
WASHINGTON — As liberal organizations struggle to line up Jewish support for an advertising campaign to block the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts, the country’s second-largest synagogue movement has declared him “qualified” for the job. Leaders of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism sent a letter Monday to Senator Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Republican…
-
Needlework Circle Knits Together Women of All Stripes
Before stretching squares of batting and fabric through her wooden quilting hoop, Miriam K. Sokoloff loads a needle with rose-colored thread and twists a knot on the end. She reaches across Judith Solomont, who is busy reducing old blue jeans to denim disks the size of dinner plates, and hands the needle to Reva Katz,…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
- 2
Film & TV The new ‘Superman’ is being called anti-Israel, but does that make it pro-Palestine?
- 3
Opinion This German word explains Trump’s authoritarian impulses — and Hitler’s rise to power
- 4
News Meet the Jews who helped elect Zohran Mamdani
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Israel is so concerned about homegrown Iranian spies it is launching a PR campaign to dissuade them
-
Books Legendary ‘King of Comedy’ Jerry Lewis placed a weekly Jewish deli order, his son recalls
-
Antisemitism Decoded How Grok’s Nazi escapade perfectly captured our antisemitic moment
-
Fast Forward Columbia adopts controversial antisemitism definition as it negotiates with Trump administration
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
