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Editor’s Choice: The Real-Life ‘Argo’; Berkeley’s Center for Jewish Studies
The Forward is partnering with other Jewish newspapers to offer our readers a peek at some of the best stories from around the country, as selected by the editors at those papers. We will offer a selection of unedited links with brief introductions from the editors of the papers. From the Jewish Journal. Tony Mendez…
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Opinion A Victim of the Oy Vey Brigade
Some years back I wrote about my Uncle Morty, who left Long Island for Manhattan one day in 1959 and never returned. They found his Chevy alongside Grand Central Parkway, but no Morty. The loss was devastating. I was recalling the incident, I wrote, not for sympathy but to note that Uncle Morty was the…
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Opinion Is Israel Preparing To Cede Temple Mount?
Israel is working on a secret plan to cede the Temple Mount to the Palestinians, a lawmaker from the ruling Likud party has claimed. “The issue here is that the prime minister wants to be rid of the Temple Mount,” Moshe Feiglin, a powerful figure on the right flank of the ruling Likud party, wrote…
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Opinion Where Is the Good News in Pew Survey on #JewishAmerica?
Reaction to the Pew Research Center’s survey on American Jews is following its own version of the cycles of grief: first horror, then denial, then a shrugging acceptance. After the gloomy news reports of this first-ever independent survey, a second wave of commentators have focused on what they call the “good news”: the population numbers…
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Opinion Russian Jewish Region’s ‘Gay’ Flag Is Kosher!
The Kremlin’s self-styled flag experts have declared that the flag of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region —which bears an uncanny resemblance to the rainbow gay pride symbol — is in fact 100% kosher, Buzzfeed World reported. The flag, designed in 1996 for the Birobidzhan region, boasts colorful stripes on a white background. It was under review…
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Opinion Send Us Your Forward 50 Nominations
Each year, the Forward publishes the Forward 50, which is our opinionated list of American Jews who made a difference in the preceding 12 months. Creating the list is a long process for the staff of the Forward. Each of us is required to propose names of candidates — and defend our choices in meetings…
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Opinion Jews Shape American Culture More Than Ever — Even as Pew Warns of Assimilation
When the results of the 1990 National Jewish Population Survey appeared, a sense of panic was quickly followed by a commitment to purpose. True, an intermarriage rate of 52%, later lowered in order to account for sampling difficulties, caused some to claim that assimilation was more destructive of Jewish life than Nazism was. But the…
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Opinion No Censorship at Theater J
A small yet vocal group seems to be holding the artistic and ethical sensibilities of the Jewish community of Washington, D.C. hostage, leading Theatre J to scale back its planned production of ‘The Admission’ by Motti Lerner. Theatre, like all arts, is meant to create dialogue as well as delight, foster intellectual discourse for new…
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Opinion Pew Stands By Sweeping Findings on #JewishAmerica in Face of Criticism
The Pew Research Center’s recent independent survey of Jewish America is the most comprehensive national poll of the U.S. Jewish population in more than a decade, and we are pleased that it has captured the interest of the American public, and beyond. Our survey builds on the Jewish community’s long and proud tradition of conducting…
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Opinion How We Cover Sammy Cohen-Eckstein’s Death
The morning after the funeral for Samuel Cohen-Eckstein, the Brooklyn teenager who was killed by a van just a month before his bar mitzvah, the leaders of his family’s synagogue wrote to me, extremely upset about our coverage. Since these are leaders I respect, who raised serious, vexing questions, I responded to them right away….
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Opinion News Quiz: Bageling, Polyamorous Jews and More!
Polyamorous Jews? They’re in quiz this week — and maybe even in your shul. If you’re ever bored, well, now you can look around for something besides who’s wearing the most sports-obsessed kippah. (And, by the way, why is that even kosher? What would Rashi say about a skullcap emblazoned “METS!”?) Also here: A bit…
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