The small city of Whitefish in Montana’s Flathead Valley may seems like an odd battleground in the fight against white supremacy. The city is in a pristine valley, between the snow-capped mountains of Glacier National Park and the peaceful Flathead Lake. Every winter, the town of Whitefish fills with visitors who come to ski the…
Under the banner of “Jewish Resistance,” several hundred activists protested Wednesday evening outside the Trump Hotel in Washington, where the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations held its Hanukkah reception. Protesters marched from nearby Freedom Plaza along Pennsylvania Avenue and gathered outside the brand new hotel to express their dismay with the decision…
When Mrs. F. and her husband decided to move away from Kiryas Joel, the upstate New York shtetl where they grew up, they went to their rebbe to ask for advice. The couple couldn’t move just anywhere. Both are members of the Satmar Hasidic group, and like all ultra-Orthodox Jews, they had special requirements: a…
A battle for the upstate New York village of Bloomingburg is ending, and the Satmar Hasidim won. While reporting on the progress of the Orthodox development in Bloomingburg, the Forward was given a tour of a new Satmar school for boys being built in an old warehouse in town. Signs in the school called it…
The Forward’s article this week on the dispute over a new Satmar development in Bloomingburg is built on years of reporting by many outlets. For those interested in digging deeper, we suggest checking out the following stories and resources. The Times Herald-Record Without a doubt, the newspaper that has paid the closest attention to the…
The Trump team has called relocating the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem a “priority.” and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said such a move would be “great.” But experts on the Middle East see a variety of possible scenarios for such a move, and most of them are terrible. The main concern is that moving…
To get to Camp Ramah Darom in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, you drive up Interstate 85, North, out of Atlanta, the nearest big city, for almost an hour. Just a little past Peachtree Corners, you turn onto old U.S. Route 23. From there it’s 35 minutes or so, deep into the mountains,…
For four decades, a Jewish man says he did not tell anyone that a counselor at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires forced him to perform a sex act in the woods one summer as a boy. But now that his alleged abuser has been convicted in the sexual abuse of several children in Canada, the…
Israeli soldiers have taken to Facebook to pledge defy army orders and refuse to evacuate Amona, an outpost settlement in the West Bank slated for demolition this month. A new Facebook group called “I am also refusing to evacuate Amona,” is displaying anonymous messages from soldiers who say they won’t evict Israeli settlers. The group…
For 36 years, Peter Hayes’s History of the Holocaust course at Northwestern University was the best lecture series on campus. Over the course of eight weeks, Hayes, a professor of German history, explained the Holocaust by answering a series of questions: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why didn’t the Jews fight back?…
Jewish history in the Syrian city of Aleppo all but ended in October, when an Israeli businessman and moderate rebels helped smuggle out of the country the last Jewish family in town — but not everybody escaped. The Halabis had lived in Syria through more than four years of internecine civil war, shuttering themselves in…
