Shortly after their first year at Temple University began this past summer, Sasha Westrick said, her roommate began teasing her about being Jewish. Westrick said the roommate made comments about her dressing up for Shabbat and believing in God, and once asked her for money because she said she thought Jewish people had a lot…
Yet another set of public figures have compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust, an ever-growing club that never fails to draw ire and condemnations from prominent rabbis, Holocaust museums and just about every Jew on Twitter. Inevitably, the apologies came shortly thereafter. “It is never okay to compare anything to the evil of Nazi Germany….
The improbable hybrid of a tallit, a Jewish prayer shawl, and a sajjada, a Muslim prayer rug. A family recipe for an Iraqi date pastry that evokes layers of Arab-Jewish identity. Glazed stoneware for trans Jews to use in ritual practice. A film of screen recordings and Zoom exchanges about disability and displacement. These works,…
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. Download and print our free magazine of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday. Rabbi Sy Dresner, a civil-rights pioneer with a photographic memory, was…
“Hey, do you know you were in a movie with the new Ukrainian president?” my brother texted me in the Spring of 2019. He included a screenshot of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s IMDb page. “Who me?” I wrote back, adding a perplexed hands-up emoji that perfectly represented the haggard suburban mom I now was. I’d gotten used…
A museum near Tel Aviv, which first opened nearly 35 years ago, has ceased operations after failing to reach an agreement with 47 artists who accused the museum — and the city — of censorship, and demanded that their work be removed. The artists had asked The Ramat Gan Museum of Israeli Art to reverse…
Months after a Yeshiva University student accused a member of its celebrated basketball team of rape and university officials of mishandling her complaint, the school has restructured its office for handling sexual harassment and assault. Undergraduate Dean Karen Bacon announced the changes in a letter to students this week, saying they had been prompted by…
Editor’s Note: The artist George Chemeche died Jan. 11, 2022 at age 89. To mark this solemn occasion, we are republishing this remembrance of the artist’s life and work by his daughter, Amanda Chemeche. My father, George Chemeche, is 87 years old. I live with him here in the Chelsea Hotel. Since the onset of…
Soup is one of those universal things: every culture has its own versions, every family its own recipes, every person their own memories and rituals. Our editor-in-chief, Jodi Rudoren, recently wrote about how she brings homemade quarts to friends stricken with coronavirus. Making soup, she noted, is a lot easier than making New Year’s resolutions,…
לעשעס זאָגט אַז ער פֿילט „אַ שליחות‟ צו באַנײַען און דערפֿרישן אַלטע ייִדישע לידער.
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