When Donald Trump began his ascent toward Republican leadership, Leon Wieseltier offered an antidote. “The only proper response to his success is shame, anger and resistance,” the Jewish intellectual told The Washington Post. “We must not accustom ourselves to this. Trump is not a new normal.” Now Wieseltier, at the center of a multiple allegations…
Reform synagogues are chronically underpaying female rabbis, according to a previously unreported study issued this past summer by the Reform movement. Women in senior or solo rabbi positions at larger Reform congregations are paid 85% of what men make in the same jobs, the survey found. And while men outnumber women 4-to-1 among senior or…
Cherokee sweetheart. Trayvon Martin. Sexy nun. Adult rabbi. Every Halloween season features a signature stew of timely and extremely offensive costumes — such as the 2013 Trayvon Martin costume, the 2015 Caitlyn Jenner look-alikes and last year’s Zika-carrying mosquitoes. Just last week, the internet exploded in a rage about the sale of Anne Frank outfits….
Aly Raisman is a three-time Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast, a social media star with over 2.2 million followers on Instagram and now a published author. But Raisman, age 23, proudly says that she still relies on her parents for guidance. “I definitely go to my mom all the time for advice,” Raisman told the Forward…
AIPAC may have secretly written your rabbi’s sermon. Each week, the pro-Israel lobby the American Israel Public Affairs Committee sends out two prewritten sermons to rabbis across the United States, pushing AIPAC’s legislative agenda and its policy goals. And each week, AIPAC reminds rabbis that they shouldn’t tell congregants where they got the pre-written texts….
On May 2, Israel’s Independence Day, Texas state Rep. Phil King stood smiling as Gov. Greg Abbott signed King’s bill banning the state from doing business with boycotters of Israel. “Anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas policies, and we will not tolerate such actions against an important ally,” Abbott said of the bill that overwhelmingly passed the…
On October 22, the Forward mistakenly published a story noting that a woman was publicly alleging, on another website, that she had been sexually harassed by Elie Wiesel in 1989. Our story did not meet our journalistic standards and has been removed. The Forward apologizes for this error. Read more about our decision here.
Stories about President Trump’s interactions with the families of soldiers killed in military service dominated the news this week, including especially his lie that previous presidents like Barack Obama didn’t call such families, and his remark to a grieving widow that her husband “knew what he signed up for.” In Israel, mourning military families simply…
Cleanup after Hurricane Harvey is moving at a slow pace in Texas’ Gulf Coast region and in the Houston area. As of early this month, over 60,000 people were still living in hotels, and on Friday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an investigation into companies that “may be over-promising but under-delivering” in removing hurricane…
On the day white nationalist leader Richard Spencer was scheduled to come to the University of Florida, the campus was on high alert. The governor had declared a state of emergency and hundreds of counter protestors had shown up. Classes were cancelled; the campus was swarmed with media and helicopters swooped overhead. At the center…
A #MeToo Facebook post has bared a 5-year-old sexual misconduct scandal at a prestigious New York City Modern Orthodox high school, in which a female staff member allegedly engaged in sexual activity with a male sophomore. A recent graduate of SAR High School in the Riverdale section of the Bronx brought the case to public…
