Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of books and literature, including both non-fictional and fictional works.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of books and literature, including both non-fictional and fictional works.
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News ‘I’m here with my two Jewish lawyers’: How Trump was pushed to disavow David Duke
In new book, veteran reporter Maggie Haberman highlights Donald Trump’s 'uncertainty' about disassociating himself from the nation's most famous white supremacist
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News Kushner offered to pay to get the Abraham Accords ceremony on White House lawn, a new book reports
The book by veteran political correspondents Peter Baker and Susan Glasser offers behind-the-scenes anecdotes about Kushner, Trump and the Abraham Accords
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News ‘Shabbat Shalom and Sayonara’: Loyalists tried to oust Kushner via Shabbat meeting with Trump
Former White House advisor Peter Navarro details in new book an effort to replace Jared Kushner with Steve Bannon as head of the 2020 campaign amid dismal polling
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News An urgent call during Kol Nidre: The time this top prosecutor had to work on Yom Kippur
Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. Attorney who was fired by Donald Trump, was in synagogue when a prosecutor called to ask whether Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman should be arrested
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Culture The Holocaust bus tour that was truly a trip to hell (snack bar included)
When Jerry Stahl’s life felt like it was collapsing, a visit to the Nazis’ most infamous concentration camps helped him find clarity
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News New book explores the insane career of Syrian Jewish hustler ‘Crazy Eddie’ Antar
Turns out he was a crook who fled to Israel and spent time in the same jail where Adolf Eichmann was executed
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Culture He escaped one ghetto only to find himself imprisoned in another
Santiago Amigorena's novel imagines his grandfather's life in Argentina and the one he left behind in Poland
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Opinion I’m a rabbi who witnessed the attack on Salman Rushdie in Chautauqua. Here is how we can combat this type of hate
The brutal assault on the famed author in Chautauqua is a potent reminder of the power of civics education
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Fast Forward Jews named Josh will be 6% of U.S. governors. Rabbis named Josh have leadership advice.
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Yiddish פּרעכטיק נײַ ייִדיש ליד פֿון סאַטמער־דערצויגענער זינגערין ריקי רויזAmazing new Yiddish song by Satmar-raised singer Riki Rose
ווען זי האָט געזונגען „אָטעם אַרײַן און אָטעם אַרויס“ אויף דער ייִדיש־וואָך אין אויגוסט איז דער עולם גאָר נתפּעל געוואָרן.
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Culture Ivanka Trump suggests you avoid this central sin in Judaism — will her father listen?
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Fast Forward Exit poll: 79% of Jewish voters back Harris over Trump
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