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Avital Emerges in Fight To Save Shcharansky
This is the last of three excerpts from Forward staff writer Gal Beckerman’s new book, “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle To Save Soviet Jewry,” published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in September. Not long after Anatoly Shcharansky was accused in a Soviet newspaper of being a CIA agent, he was…
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A Football Team That Recites the Sh’ma
San Diego Jewish Academy, which fields what it says is the nation’s only all-Jewish high school football team, is experiencing its share of tsuris. Last season, its first year of playing 11 boys on a side, the academy won six games and lost two to make the playoffs and raise expectations. But in the offseason,…
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Venezuela Community in Eye of Storm As Chavez Assails Israel
It was just a few weeks ago that Fidel Castro condemned anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial in Iran, telling the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg: “I don’t think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews. I would say, much more than the Muslims.” And already, the impact of Castro’s self-described message to Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is…
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Push To Amend Civil Rights Act Forces Basic Questions About Jewish Identity
When the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, it was seen as the main vehicle for ending racial discrimination against African Americans. Now, two Jewish lawmakers are trying to amend the law, in order to have it include protection for Jewish students on college campuses. In the process, they are taking on a heavy…
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What? Not All Jews Are Geniuses?
It’s that time of year again. As the temperature begins to dip and the leaves start to turn, the MacArthur “genius grants” fall from on high, followed quickly by the announcement of Nobel Prize recipients. And, as happens so often, Jews are prominent this year among the winners of each honor. Four Jews have won…
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Rick Sanchez Latest To Be Immediately Fired After Comments Hostile to Jews
By the time Rick Sanchez, now a former CNN anchor, made his remarks about Jews controlling the media, there was a well-established process for how to deal with these types of situations. Within 24 hours, he was summarily fired, with a curt thank-you for his service to the network. Call it crisis management on steroids….
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International Honorees
The Many Splendored Tony Curtis — Hollywood Hunk and Humanitarian Bronx-born Tony Curtis (ne Bernie Schwartz), who died at 85 of cardiac arrest in Las Vegas on September 29, portrayed an astonishing range of characters. These included Antoninus, a Greek slave, in “Spartacus” (1960); the Brit-Norse slave Erik, half-brother of Viking Einar, played by (yet…
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Guest Editor: Rachel Sklar
This fall, eight guest editors are helping to shape the Forward Forum by commissioning opinion pieces. This week it’s Rachel Sklar, who has chronicled the media world at the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast, and now at Mediaite.com in her capacity as editor-at-large. A native of Canada, Sklar is a contributor to numerous anthologies…
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Help Us Choose the Forward 50
In an annual tradition, the Forward compiles a list of 50 American Jews who have had a large impact on the Jewish story in the past year. E-mail your suggestions for this year’s Forward 50 to [email protected], by October 15, and explain why your nominees merit a spot on the list.
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Bagels and Ballots — Wednesday
A Story You Can Bank On: Illinois senatorial candidate Alexi Giannoulias, a former official at his family’s Chicago area bank, is “consistently vague” about just what he did there, the Chicago Tribune finds. In the words of his opponent Mark Kirk, “First he said he was the senior loan officer and ran much of the…
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N.J. Jewish Paper In Knots Over Gay Nuptials
A late September edition of the New Jersey Jewish Standard included a first for the publication: an announcement, in its Simchas section, of an engagement between two men. In the next week’s edition, however, the paper effectively took back the notice, writing on the editorial page that it would no longer publish announcements of gay…
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