I recently purchased at auction an important document consisting of an original draft order to expedite Nazi Germany’s slave labor program, with editing changes in Adolf Hitler’s handwriting. The document clearly demonstrates Hitler’s personal interest and involvement in this murderous program, an important aspect of the Holocaust, and presumably other war crimes as well. It…
Shorter services, held outside. Streamed services. Social distancing. In the era of the coronavirus, congregations across Jewish denominations have been forced to modify cherished High Holiday rituals in order to mitigate the risk posed by singing. It was a choir rehearsal in Skagit County, WA., which led to the infection of 53 members, that alerted…
“Activism in the Five Boroughs” The Forward’s newest collaboration with Urban Archive, the city’s award winning digital mapping platform for storytelling, hits its activist stride next week with this new series focused on social justice. Kicking off from 10/19 – 10/28, the history series, was inspired by calls for meaningful change over the past few…
When Melinda Molin realized that the man she was falling in love with, Frank Lamberg, was trying to scam her, she did not break down right away. Molin, 65, is a retired trauma and breast surgeon who lives in Portland, Maine. She was trained to tackle problems first and emotions later. After Lamberg sent Molin…
The Republican Jewish Coalition released a three-minute video featuring what it billed as four “lifelong Jewish Democrats” who were switching party affiliation this year to re-elect Donald Trump. Only one wrinkle — half of them have voted for Republican presidential candidates in the past. “I am an issue voter, not just a party-line person,” one…
The Black National Convention on Friday is a watershed event — a multi-hour online broadcast that is a “a series of conversations, performances, and other activations geared toward engaging, informing, and mobilizing Black communities,” according to its website. The event is a production of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) Electoral Justice Project. The tagline:…
Today is Aiden Pink’s last at the Forward — his last, actually, as a professional journalist. He is leaving to go to rabbinical school, as he explains in this personal essay. He has promised to continue to contribute — an occasional column through his first year at the Jewish Theological Seminary, for starters. In four…
My grandparents were concerned for my safety amidst a steady rise in attacks. My parents worried about long hours with little gratitude. My brother warned of trends indicating I was entering an unstable and shrinking job market. I decided to become a journalist anyway. Working at The Forward was the fulfillment of a childhood dream,…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — This week’s Republican convention was the first political confab to feature Jerusalem as a backdrop. It may be the last. A congressional subcommittee and two citizens have taken steps to launch investigations into whether Secretary of State Mike Pompeo broke the law by using government resources for a political campaign. Pompeo said…
The presidential nominating conventions playing out these past two weeks across the nation’s television and computer screens have been about more than a fight for power. They have also served as the latest staging of the American battle for God — in which the Bible has become a political football, in which the unborn, the…
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany highlighted the BRCA 2 genetic mutation, a gene irregularity that increases the risk of breast cancer and disproportionately affects Ashkenazi Jewish women, at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday. “It was days before Christmas, and I was 21 years old when I got a call that changed my life,”…
נאָך איר מאַנס טויט אין 2003 האָט זי געהאָלפֿן אַרויסגעבן זײַן לעקסיקאָן פֿון די ייִדישע שרײַבער אין ראַטן־פֿאַרבאַנד.
