This is the Forward’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on Jewish communities around the world.
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Theater A hauntingly bizarre musical upends Stephen Sondheim’s signature maxim — here, everyone is alone
In Dave Malloy's COVID-era 'Three Houses,' a brilliant structure saves three little pigs but leaves audience out in the woods
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News ‘No divestment, no commencement’: Students fear protests will upend their college graduations
'I’m sad for her that this is how her college career is ending,' one mother said of her graduating senior
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Books How Barbra Streisand’s interior design manifesto inspired an unlikely hit play
Over a decade before publishing her first memoir, the movie star made her authorial debut with a coffee table tome detailing her sometimes questionable, always ostentatious taste in home decor
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Fast Forward Former Cuomo aide alleges that Kushner was behind Boro Park protests during COVID-19 outbreak
Melissa DeRosa, fomer Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s right hand, recounts the Orthodox protests against the governor following the blowup of a ‘nonaggression pact’ with Trump
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Fast Forward Drew Weissman, Jewish immunologist, wins Nobel Prize for his work on Covid vaccines
Weissman shared the prize with Katalin Kariko, his Hungarian-born research partner at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Fast Forward With COVID’s resurgence ahead of the High Holidays, some synagogues are bringing pandemic guidelines back. But for most, it’s ‘business as usual.’
Some synagogues are offering mask-only sections, while one congregation in New York is requiring them
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Fast Forward RFK Jr. on the people to blame for COVID: ‘We know who they were and they weren’t Jewish’
Kennedy also denounced antisemitism while defending his record on the Jews in an event organized by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
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Opinion Shmuley Boteach can’t make Robert Kennedy Jr. kosher
American Jews look at Bobby Kennedy’s son and see Donald Trump
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News An Israeli restaurant chain said it closed due to boycotts. Protesters are celebrating.
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Opinion Jews are worried about Zohran Mamdani. Here’s why they shouldn’t be
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Film & TV What the new season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ gets right — and very wrong — about Judaism
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Sports It’s so cool that Sandy Koufax was there for that
In Case You Missed It
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Yiddish אַ מוצאי־שבת אין פּאָרטלאַנד, אַ קאַצנשפּרונג פֿונעם „אײַס“־בניןA Saturday night in Portland, very close to the ICE building
שלום בערגער האָט גערעדט סײַ מיט די דעמאָנסטראַנטן קעגן „אײַס“ סײַ מיט די „טראָמפּיסטן“
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Fast Forward Cuomo dominates Jewish vote in final Quinnipiac poll before election
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Fast Forward ADL removes ‘Protect Civil Rights’ from website as it narrows its mission amid right-wing attacks
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Yiddish צי זאָל איך ווערן אַ ראַבינער?So should I become a rabbi?
אַן אַקאַדעמיקער באַשרײַבט זײַן איבערלעבונג אויף אַ רעטריט פֿאָקוסירט אויפֿן אינספּירירן ייִדן צו ווערן גײַסטיקע פֿירער.
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