Once upon a time, the Holocaust mattered to Africans. While Germans rampaged through North Africa, African newspaper editors saw Nazi atrocities as yet another argument against the so-called civilizing benefits of Western colonialism. African nations tried to prevent their Jewish residents from being hauled off to camps, some of which became synonymous in the native…
The fight over pandemic-era economic justice has claimed a new victim — a supermarket with the largest kosher selection in Los Angeles. Responding to a city-mandated pay increase for grocery store workers, Kroger announced Wednesday that it would be closing three stores in Los Angeles, including a Ralphs supermarket whose kosher kitchen, bakery and packaged…
When Gilad Erdan was growing up in the port city of Ashkelon, his mother predicted that one day he would become Israel’s state comptroller because he was always giving orders on what needed to be fixed at school. He got an early start in politics and by 26 became an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin…
A fountain of youth doesn’t exist, but scientists are researching whether a drug known for treating malaria could actually delay the aging process. That was just one of the myriad topics discussed in a Zoominar hosted by the Forward on Wednesday. “It was noticed during the 70 years of use that people on metformin don’t…
At seder tables across the country this Passover, there will be an empty chair, not for the prophet Elijah, but for the Uyghur people. Jewish groups protesting China’s ongoing genocide of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples plan to take a page from the Soviet Jewry movement and ask Jews worldwide to include the Uyghurs…
It was once possible to embark on the 38-mile bus ride from Steubenville, Ohio, to Moundsville, West Virginia, and the time would change seven times. That likely didn’t impact too many time-traveling Jews in the 1950s, when cities and towns chose individually when, or whether, to institute daylight saving time. But now, in a move…
In a new book, titled “Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century,” out on Tuesday, Josh Rogin, a Washington Post foreign policy columnist, provides an inside look Jared Kushner’s outsize role on the mismanaged trade talks with China. Kushner was directly involved in negotiations with China, Rogin writes, because he…
(JTA) — Every Friday afternoon, an email would show up in Sue Horowitz’s inbox with a pre-Shabbat greeting. Some weeks it would be just a few words of prayer or inspiration. Other times there would be a lengthier original poem. This went on for years. The sender was Stacey Zisook Robinson, a Jewish poet who…
Everything is different, and everything is the same. On Sunday night, for the first time in a year, patrons filed into the Culinary Workshop, the most neighborly of the restaurants owned by Jerusalem’s high-octane Machane Yehuda restaurant group, and were greeted, seated, and allowed to order the house’s famous truffle polenta with seasonal asparagus, or…
As a kid growing up in Knoxville, Tenn., there was a brief moment after Miriam Kramer saw the Hale-Bopp comet when she decided she wanted to be an astronomer. “I was like, man, that seems like a really cool job: Being able to look at stuff in the sky,” she said. “What an amazing job…
Maggie Haberman had perhaps the hardest, and definitely the most scrutinized, job in journalism for the past four years. She owned the Trump beat for The New York Times. Haberman came to cover the White House with the 2016 election of President Donald Trump, after literally decades of covering the outspoken real-estate mogul from New…
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