In a gripping documentary, a synagogue welcomes the stranger by taking in a migrant family
‘All We Carry’ tells the story of Honduran refugees and the Jewish community who sponsored them
immigration
The Latest
-
Film & TV -
News HIAS lays off 12% of US staff after ‘unsustainable’ spending
The refugee advocacy group said it was forced into the move after discovering financial mismanagement
-
Yiddish World Training the ‘Hester Street’ actors how to pronounce their Yiddish lines
Yiddish dialogue coach Miriam Isaacs found the actors, especially the children, in the new play quick and eager learners.
-
Culture How Yiddish slogans captured a controversial cover story — and the precarious state of American Jews
The Atlantic's new issue features a deep dive into American antisemitism. Its cover tells a slightly different story
-
Yiddish World How my family built a bank for the Lower East Side — and then destroyed it
Growing up, I had no clue about my family's role in the 1917 collapse of the Jarmulowsky Bank
-
Fast Forward House of Representatives narrowly votes to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
Jewish groups say the process has been marred by antisemitic rhetoric
-
Fast Forward Israel aid debate revealed differences among Jewish groups over immigration
Some Jewish organizations said that an aid package for Israel was not worth the blow it dealt to the asylum system
-
Yiddish World Restored 1939 Yiddish melodrama ‘Mothers of Today’ is silly, but fun
A mother drinks, smokes, gambles, and mocks the old-fashioned mother next door
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
- 2
Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
- 3
News ‘Do you have the Torahs?’ Synagogue races LA wildfire to rescue its past and future
- 4
Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward 2 synagogues in Sydney graffitied with swastikas
-
Opinion ‘Just things’ — like what my LA neighbors have lost — are what makes houses into Jewish homes
-
Opinion Celebrating Shabbat in Los Angeles: Amid the fires, a still, small voice
-
Opinion ‘Home is memory’: How Jews make sense of what they’ve lost in the LA fires and what remains
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
