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Isolating our grandparents – medically necessary, but devastating for Jewish continuity
Read this article in Yiddish It’s been more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed us all. During this time, more than half a million people in the United States have died of the virus. You’d think that a devastation of this kind would have thrown our society into shock. Last spring and summer,…
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Opinion Yes, really: Hamas and the PA want to see Netanyahu win
As we inch closer to Israel’s fourth election in two years, there’s understandable fatigue and indifference overwhelming Israelis. It’s overwhelming Palestinians, too: unfortunately, we see no glimmer of hope in most of the competing parties. The differences among Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gideon Sa’ar, Naftali Bennet, Yair Lapid and Avigdor Lieberman are largely irrelevant. Dehumanizing…
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Opinion ‘We simply feel forgotten about:’ 9 Asian American Jews speak
The United States is in the middle of a devastating spike in hate crimes against Asian-Americans, with nearly 3,800 incidents of hate reported to the organization Stop AAPI Hate in the last year. (AAPI refers to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.) Between broad under-reporting of hate crimes against Asian Americans and the lack of a…
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Letters Letter | My fellow Jews: It’s time to stop heaping blame on Tamika Mallory
To the editors: The Forward’s coverage of the Recording Academy’s award show, “The Grammys Highlighted Jews of Color But Picked a Strange Champion for Racial Justice,” was not only disappointingly condescending, it was also an extraordinary demonstration of presumption and entitlement. What gives The Forward the right to tell Black people who is the best…
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Opinion Raising Asian Jewish kids in America has never been scarier
A mother of half-Asian Jewish children fears for the safety of her children
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Opinion This Passover, we are all segments of the orange on our Seder plates
This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print. I’m not exactly sure when I…
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Opinion What will history make of Andrew Cuomo?
When the city was laid low and he was riding high, Andrew Cuomo’s daily press conferences were essential viewing. Their style was somehow both low-res and hi-def, the janky PowerPoints and abandoned recreation room setting making us feel as if we were all in the same absurdist bunker. Sure, he didn’t have the same charisma…
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Opinion Asian Jews are suffering. We need you to listen.
A version of this essay originally appeared on Alma, 70 Faces Media’s feminist Jewish culture site. Over the years, I’ve dealt with a lot of reactions to the fact that I am Korean and Jewish. They’ve ranged from the absurd (Are you sure?) to the angry (That’s not possible!) to the utterly exhausting (Wow, so, are…
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Opinion Can we bend the boundaries of Shabbat without breaking them?
Never did I imagine, before the pandemic hit a year ago that the Shabbat services I lead would become such a multimedia production. The cameras, the lighting, the monitors, Zoom, livestream, YouTube, Facebook, and most of all, the technicians who work behind the scenes to make it all happen. I am so incredibly proud of…
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Opinion What Jews should learn from the Amanda Gorman translation controversy
Joe Biden’s inauguration was supposed to be a relatively subdued affair, transpiring as it did during a raging pandemic and the aftermath of a violent insurrection at the Capitol. The much-vaunted peaceful transfer of power was less a victory lap than a survivors’ huddle. There were no balls, no galas. Against this backdrop of grey…
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Opinion I’m a Jewish teen exhausted by violence, and I can’t keep waiting for adults to fix it
When the Capitol was being stormed by insurrectionists, I was at home doing virtual high school and worrying about a tough history essay that I was writing. As a teenager growing up in Washington, D.C. — I live about a 30-minute walk from the Capitol — the attack felt very personal and close to home,…
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