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Culture Finding out I wasn’t genetically related to my father brought me closer to him
How a surprising discovery on 23andMe led to an even more surprising realization
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Forverts in English What my father taught me about drinking whiskey
Part of a Forverts series devoted to Father’s Day
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Forverts in English My father spoke like Tevye the Dairyman – but with a Polish-Yiddish dialect
Part of a Forverts series devoted to Father’s Day
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Opinion Before he died, he recorded songs and stories for his future grandchildren
A father’s final gift: 'The Wheels on the Bus' and Dr. Seuss
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Recipes Recipe: Forverts’ “Baba Au Rhum” for Father’s Day
For Father’s Day this year, The Forward presents to you a recipe from the archives that originally appeared in the Forverts in 1979. Longtime Forverts columnist Tsirl Steingart printed this recipe in the Est Gezunterheyt! column under the pseudonym “Sara Berkovitch.” Steingart had a fairly active life prior to settling into the role of Forverts…
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Culture From the time of Torah to TikToks, 10 of Judaism’s best dads
“Fiddler on the Roof” is unequivocal: It is the father’s lot to, day and night, scramble for a living, feed a wife and children, say his daily prayers and have the final word at home. Well, things have changed for most of us since shtetl days — a net positive — but Papas are still…
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Culture A very normal, totally logical, sort-of-Jewish Father’s Day gift guide
Gift guides for men are perplexing documents. In their haste to assure our dads and ourselves that men don’t like clothes, cosmetics, or anything that can’t be classified as a “gadget,” publications have urged the purchase of some truly deranged items. Doorbells that connect to his iPad. Camping knives with functions that almost no dad…
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