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
-
Unlikely Music in an Unlikely Place
In the 1970s, Andy Statman emerged as a celebrated mandolin player in the “newgrass” movement. In the 1980s, he became a driving force behind the neo-klezmer movement. In the 1990s, he released collections with mandolin-master David Grisman and Itzhak Perlman, and was eventually lauded by The New York Times as “a master of two idioms…
-
French Ban on Muslim Veil Protects Girls, Advocates Say
PARIS — Proponents of a controversial law banning the conspicuous display of religious symbols in French public schools are rejecting charges that the measure is aimed at discriminating against Muslim girls who wear headscarves. Rather, said Patrick Weil, one of the 20 members of a presidential commission that proposed the law in December, the goal…
-
Generation X-odus
Generation Exodus: The Fate of Young Jewish Refugees from Nazi Germany By Walter Laqueur I.B. Tauris (St. Martin’s Press), 345 pages, $15.95. * * *| Any author who seriously and intentionally lumps together Henry Kissinger and Ruth Westheimer possesses an ambition that is admirable, or laughable — or both. In “Generation Exodus: The Fate of…
The Latest
-
Religious Overtones Color a Murder in Texas
The victim was a Jew, slaughtered in a Houston apartment, his throat slit so deftly with a 6-inch butterfly knife that he was nearly decapitated. The killer was an Arab, a newly minted religious Muslim and the son of a millionaire Saudi businessman. He had been bailed out of trouble by the Saudi consulate after…
-
Sighet and the Mittel Ages
Though the German thinker Wilhelm Marr came up with “anti-Semitism,” and we have Raphael Lemkin to thank for “genocide,” Elie Wiesel’s “Holocaust” is the most original term in this horrid neo-lexicon. Holocaust (noun): complete consumption by fire. Our next stop in this travel-writing series was Sighetu Marmatiei, Romania — Wiesel’s hometown — where we ventured…
-
U.S. Advice To Israelis: Don’t Start Syria Talks
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration recently advised the Israeli government against taking up the offer of Syrian President Bashar Assad to resume peace negotiations, Israeli and American diplomats in Washington confirmed. The administration, according to sources, voiced several concerns regarding Assad’s recent public claims that he is willing to resume peace negotiations with Israel. The…
-
Swinging With The First Amendment
‘I’m going to tell you the dirtiest word you’ve ever heard on stage,” comedian Lenny Bruce used to begin one of his nightclub routines. “It is just disgusting. … It’s a four-letter word, starts with an ‘s’ and ends with a ‘t.’” After begging the audience not to tell his mother that he would actually…
-
A Flawed Fix, and an Opportunity To Address Immigration Problem
Jews know how it is to arrive in a foreign land as strangers — and not always to welcoming arms. In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, waves of Eastern European Jewish immigrants, including my father, arrived in the United States, often fleeing pogroms. Many were unskilled laborers who took low-paying jobs in factories where they…
-
Emending Resume May Be Enough To Make Amends
I have an exemplary employee who has been with me for four years. He is an overachiever, a perfectionist and a lovely presence in the office; I have found him at all times to be honest and ethical. It has come to my attention, however, that he lied on his resume. He claims to have…
-
CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
With Jewish support for the Democratic presidential candidates shifting after Monday’s Iowa caucuses, the campaigns are stepping up their outreach to the Jewish communities in New Hampshire and across the country. Following his rout at the hands of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, former Vermont governor Howard Dean, who in December purportedly had won over the…
-
Bush Budget Taxing on Have-nots
President Bush has announced that he intends to cut costs in the 2005 budget. He is doing so because of the pressure he’s getting from many in the GOP who complain bitterly that he is piling up the highest deficits in the nation’s history after promising less — not more — government. For 2003, the…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward After Minneapolis shooting, local Jewish service channels a city’s grief and resolve
- 2
Culture ‘The Pitt’ tackled the trauma of the Tree of Life attack. Here’s how survivors of the synagogue shooting reacted to the episode.
- 3
Holy Ground A Millennial rabbi built a synagogue where others have closed. Her maverick ideas are becoming a model.
- 4
News Why Josh Shapiro’s memoir could complicate a presidential run
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Chabad attack suspect had previously sought ‘spiritual guidance’ from rabbi
-
Yiddish שירי שאַפּיראַס דערצײלונגען אַנטפּלעקן דאגות פֿונעם „מילעניאַל“ דורShiri Shapira’s Yiddish stories reflect the anxieties of millennials
הגם אירע מעשׂיות וועגן ישׂראלדיקן טאָגטעגלעכן לעבן זעען אויס פּשוט, שטעקט אין זיי אָפֿט אַ פֿילאָסאָפֿישן יסוד.
-
Fast Forward Senior ADL antisemitism researcher leaves to lead competing effort
-
Books 24 visions of Leonard Cohen, no clear picture of who he was
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
