This is the Forward’s coverage of the 2024 election season.
2024 Elections

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Politics Trump blames Harris for immigrant’s shooting of Chicago Jew, and all the Jewish angles on the eve of Election Day
The Jewish vote has been complicated by the Israel-Hamas war and generational shifts
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Film & TV RFK Jr. (and Stanley Kubrick) don’t want you to drink the water
The Kennedy heir has vowed to eliminate fluoride from American taps, in a move straight out of ‘Dr. Strangelove’
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Politics Anonymous texts to Pennsylvania voters suggest Harris is duplicitous on Israel
The messages, which started to be sent over the weekend, come after a Republican ad campaign in Michigan seeking to damage support for Harris among Arab American voters
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Politics Meet two rabbis who are trying to fight ‘toxic polarization’ — one Jewish text at a time
On the eve of Election Day, Rabbis Rachel Schmelkin and Michael Holzman ask: can this democracy be saved?
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Politics Why Trump is being compared to the obscure biblical king Jehu on the Christian right
In the Bible, Jehu orders the killing of Jezebel as he takes over the Kingdom of Israel and eradicates the idol worshippers
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Politics ‘Rabbi rebellion’: 33 Orthodox rabbis endorse Harris
Most Orthodox Jews vote Republican, but the rabbis cited grave concerns over Trump’s moral character
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Politics 5 questions and answers on Jewish voters and candidates as Election Day approaches
Where does the Jewish vote matter most?
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Politics How rabbis in battleground states are approaching a razor-close election with enormous implications for Jews and for Israel
“When they talk about undecided voters, they’re talking about my congregation,” said one rabbi in Las Vegas
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Culture Charlie Kirk kept a ‘Jewish Sabbath.’ What did he mean by that?
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Fast Forward ‘Murdered for speaking truth’: Netanyahu and US Jewish leaders mourn Charlie Kirk
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News Who was Horst Wessel, and why are people comparing Charlie Kirk to him?
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News Was Charlie Kirk a martyr? Here’s why Christians are divided and Jews should care
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Music Bob Dylan, my mother, and the unknown painter behind ‘Blood on the Tracks’
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Theater How often does Tim Blake Nelson think about ancient Greece?
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Opinion It was the wildest scheme in American Jewish history. 200 years later, should it be remembered as a failure?
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