Nearly half of American Jews aged 18-29 say they’ve been the victims of anti-Semitism in the last five years, according to a survey released Wednesday by the American Jewish Committee. The poll of American Jewish attitudes towards and response to anti-Semitism was released nearly one year after the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, the deadliest anti-Semitic incident…
After philanthropists protested Jewish federations’ denial of their desire to donate money to a group critical of Israel, the New Israel Fund is creating a new pipeline for philanthropists to support it and other progressive groups, the Forward has learned. An American charity whose mission is to direct funding to liberal groups that push for…
Seymour Drescher approached the Tree of Life*Or L’Simcha building in Pittsburgh and was turned away during the horrific shooting last October. He always thought he had escaped unscathed. But this Rosh Hashanah, when the congregants who normally blew the shofar were absent, he realized he had not. “When the shofar blast came out, the final…
As I thought about Rep. Elijah Cummings in the hours after his death Thursday morning, my mind kept going to images of the students applying to join his namesake initiative, the Elijah Cummings Youth Program in Israel. Each spring, about 25 high school sophomores from the Congressman’s district are selected to interview for slots in…
The chief executive of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries — Israel’s largest company — has been summoned to the U.S. to make a deal in the massive opioid litigation. Teva is one of several pharmaceutical giants defending lawsuits over their involvement in the opioid epidemic, which has taken on global proportions and kills, on average, 130 Americans…
Once or twice a week, I walk with my 7-year-old son, sometimes with one of his friends, to a chess class. There’s an easy road: via Rosenthaler Strasse in Berlin’s Mitte district, past Hackescher Markt, then a right to our destination. But we don’t like the big streets – there are too many people, and…
Congressman Lee Zeldin is a Republican in the very blue state of New York. The Jewish politician won a third term in the House by only four points in 2018. Yet Zeldin has seized the spotlight in the season of impeachment by defending Donald Trump — reviled by liberals — and criticizing the Jewish Democrat…
Carly Pildis is a progressive activist and writer who frequently speaks out about anti-Semitism on the left as well as the depredations of the right. Every day, she says, she gets messages from American Jewish women who tell her they’re scared of expressing their support for Israel, or even their Jewish identities, in progressive spaces….
On Saturday night, The Forward published a column by our Opinion Editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, about her experience at a conference on anti-Semitism and racism at Bard College. A panel Ungar-Sargon was moderating that featured Ruth Wisse, a controversial scholar and Holocaust survivor, was targeted for protest by the campus chapter of Students for Justice in…
It was during the Torah reading on Yom Kippur morning that Rabbi Jeremy Borovitz, a visitor to the little synagogue in Halle, Germany, noticed the security guard staring intensely at his video monitor and trying to get the attention of the community president, Max Privorozki. “And then we hear a boom, like a very loud…
Anti-Semitism, Israel, immigration, climate change. But mostly: anti-Semitism. Aspiration, repentance, renovation, optimism, and, again, anti-Semitism. Diets, meditation, memory, anger, balance, meaning, love, waiting, faith, change — and anti-Semitism. After a year in which 12 Jews were killed in terror attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh and Poway, Calif., a year the police recorded rising hate crimes…
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