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A Bintel Brief and the Fire
Watch a video from the Forward’s 2011 inaugural gala in which actress Jill Eikenberry and Isaiah Sheffer, founder of Symphony Space, read a letter from a garment worker who survived the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in 1911:
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Reporters’ Roundtable: How Israel Views J Street
Attitudes toward J Street in the Israeli political sphere and American congressional hearings into the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community are the topics of this week’s podcast. News editor Larry Cohler-Esses and staff writer Nathan Guttman join host Josh Nathan-Kazis for the discussion. Subscribe to Forward podcasts on iTunes
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Chicago’s Next Mayor
Chicago has elected former White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel as its next mayor. When Emanuel takes office, he will be the first Jew to lead the city. You’re asking, maybe, “so what’s new?” Chicago’s mayor is a Jew, The very first to reach that post, A feat of which the tribe may boast. We speak…
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Looking Forward/Forward Looking
Watch a short video, filmed for our 2011 inaugural gala, on what makes the Forward an essential source for Jewish news, culture and analysis.
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Family Secret: My Mother-in-Law, the Accused Spy
On Saturday, February 26, my mother-in-law, Judith Socolov, died peacefully in her sleep at age 89. Her death was covered extensively by The Associated Press and The New York Times, and reporters openly discussed her “infamous” past as part of a Cold War drama that had long been forgotten. As a 28-year-old State Department employee…
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In Opposing Federal Budget Cuts, Unity Is Elusive
Amid a raging national debate over the federal budget, Jewish organizations are rallying to save projects that are dear to the community from the chopping block. But this year, battling budget cuts seems especially difficult, given the hostility to federal spending among congressional Republicans and a lack of clarity as to the bottom lines of…
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In Madison, Only Some Jewish Voices Are Heard
At Wisconsin’s Capitol building, in Madison, rabbis and other members of the state’s Jewish community have been a visible presence as protests have swelled in support of state and local public worker unions. But the community’s biggest and most politically influential bodies — its two federations and affiliated community relations councils — have been conspicuously…
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Union That Grew in the Triangle Fire’s Ashes Is Now Nearly Gone
By the time the union was done with J.P. Stevens and Co., the boycott of the giant textile manufacturer had so penetrated the culture that the wives of Stevens executives, heading off to cocktail parties, would warn their husbands not to tell anyone where they worked. It’s an anecdote that Bruce Raynor, the latest —…
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Battle for Historic Lower East Side Synagogue Ends With Old Guard in Charge
Three years after a Lower East Side match that seemed made in heaven, Manhattan’s historic but struggling Sixth Street Community Synagogue and popular Chabad rabbi Simon Jacobson have divorced amid acrimony to rival that of a bad marriage from an Isaac Bashevis Singer tale. Jacobson, once seen by members of the synagogue as a potential…
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Marilyn Henry, Advocate for Survivors
Marilyn Henry was the quintessential old-school girl reporter — more Hildy Johnson in “His Girl Friday” than Brenda Starr. Her laser-sharp brain could cut through the most complex philosophical, financial, legal, religious and arcane data to get to the heart of a story. Her two masterworks were “Twice Stolen,” an almost-finished book project, aborted by…
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