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
-
Foes Warn Measure Could Hurt Efforts To Fight Bias
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s gubernatorial bid is overshadowing a ballot initiative that will either — depending upon whom one asks — bring the Golden State one step closer to realizing the dream of a color-blind society or stymie government efforts to fight discrimination and serve an ethnically diverse population. Proposition 54, a proposed constitutional amendment on the…
-
At a Ripe Age, Eli Wallach Plays Juicy Jewish Roles
Round-faced and sunburned, with wild, kinky hair and a Mexican accent, Eli Wallach was in an utter rage at the end of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.” Clint Eastwood’s character had nearly killed him, and as Eastwood trotted away on a horse, Wallach chased after him, bellowing curses. It has been 36 years…
-
Death Is Celebrated and Life Means Less Than Nothing
No End to War: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century By Walter Laqueur Continuum, 288 pages, $24.95. * * *| Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power In a Violent World By Jean Bethke Elshtain Basic Books, 240 pages, $23. * * *| Terror and Liberalism By Paul Berman W.W. Norton & Company, 214…
The Latest
-
SHIP’S STORY RESURFACES
Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici tells the story of the sinking of The Struma, a dilapidated ship carrying nearly 800 Jews from Romania to Palestine via Turkey during World War II, in “The Struma” (2001), which makes its television debut on HBO2. The vessel left Constanza, Romania, in December 1941 and, suffering engine failure, barely…
-
Charges of Misconduct Against Rabbi Matis Weinberg (Correction)
In our August 22 issue, the Forward published an article about charges of misconduct against Rabbi Matis Weinberg that were to be considered at a rabbinical tribunal in Jerusalem. The article reported that Weinberg failed to appear at an August 14 hearing and referred to him as “AWOL” and a “no-show.” The Forward subsequently has…
-
Goats to the Slaughter
‘And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord and the other lot for the scapegoat…. And the goat on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him and to let him go for a scapegoat unto…
-
IN OTHER WORDS…
The Liberal Case for Palestine: “The loss of Professor Edward Said,” Christopher Hitchens eulogizes in a September 26 posting to Slate.com, “will be unbearable for his family, insupportable to his immense circle of friends, upsetting to a vast periphery of admirers and readers who one might almost term his diaspora, and depressing to all those…
-
PSALM 151
In recent years, the traditional custom of tashlich has gained currency in the Jewish New Year. In the ceremony, we toss bread into the water — symbolic of our griefs and grievances — and it’s fun to imagine this bread being tossed in odd corners of the country, from the muddy waters of the Mississippi…
-
Newsdesk October 3, 2003
Arab Leader Praised Bombing A top American Muslim leader who was charged this week for illegally obtaining money from Libya and financing terrorism in the United States and abroad once hailed the 1994 bombing of the Jewish communal center in Argentina, according to the court testimony of a federal agent. “The Jewish community center, it…
-
Fringe Movement: A Biblical Blue Makes a Comeback
The color purple – well, something related to it – is making a comeback, but its significance goes far beyond the favor of frum fashionistas. A newly recovered biblical process of extracting the purplish blue dye from a Mediterranean mollusk is changing the way the commandment to wear tzitzit — the ritual fringes worn on…
-
Survivors Sue Commission
WASHINGTON — An international commission charged with resolving Holocaust-era insurance claims is coming under attack from California politicians and segments of the Jewish community. Holocaust survivors are suing the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims over allegedly delayed payments. The suit has been joined by the California state insurance commissioner, John Garamendi, a member…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go
- 2
News What a Mayor Mamdani would mean for New York Jews
- 3
Fast Forward Mamdani tells Colbert — and a national audience — why NYC Jews shouldn’t fear him as mayor
- 4
Opinion Mamdani’s victory is an opportunity for Jews to relearn the art of disagreement
In Case You Missed It
-
Music Anyone who tells you that you shouldn’t meet your heroes never met Jill Sobule
-
Opinion Can we say Donald Trump’s Middle East nuclear strategy is dangerous — if it isn’t even a strategy?
-
Opinion ‘Israel is seen as violent’ — and Israeli chefs, once global culinary icons, are feeling the heat
-
Culture As Mel Brooks turns 99, his wisdom matters more than ever
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
