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Community 120 Years of The Jewish Daily Forward: Now On Pinterest
This year, The Jewish Daily Forward is celebrating our fulfillment of the Jewish blessing — “ad meah v’esrim!” — and marking our 120th year as the leading Jewish publication in the world. To celebrate, we invite you to to view, interact with, and comment on our new Pinterest board, 120 Years of the Forward. Pinterest…
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Life How Brexit Threatens My Jewish Son’s European Identity
My 8-year-old son Cai didn’t like the tension around the Brexit talk. He knew an “out” vote meant we’ll probably move from our new home in Luxembourg since my Welsh husband would become ineligible to work in his current job for the EU. As the only British people he knows voted to stay, he can’t…
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News Ex-Hasidic Woman’s ‘Suicide Book’ Rattles Ultra-Orthodox World
“In this city I gave birth to my daughters, and in this city I died because of my daughters” – this, among other things, was written in the suicide note left next to the body of Esty Weinstein, which was found on Sunday in a car near the Ashdod beach. Weinstein, 50, a resident of…
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Life Don’t Blame Mikveh Attendants for a Broken System Created by Men
I’m not big on manicures. This is in part because my life is filled with things like typing and piano, so manicures make my hands feel pretty but useless – good for appearances and bad for actually creating stuff – and in part because cuticle-cutting is painful and often infection-inducing. One advantage of infrequent manicures…
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Opinion Documentary About ‘The Settlers’ Shows Them as Israeli Left Wants To See Them
Shimon Dotan’s recent documentary, “The Settlers,” currently attracting a lot of attention in Israel, is painfully beautiful. Dotan’s shots capture both the beauty of the West Bank and the complexity of the geopolitics that are tragically tearing it apart. Along with the fantastic production, Dotan’s skills as an interviewer present the settlers, an often-misunderstood segment…
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Fast Forward Two Israelis Lightly Hurt In Car-Ramming, Assailant Killed
— A car-ramming outside the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron, lightly injured two Israelis, in an apparent terror attack. The assailant, a Palestinian woman, was shot dead by a soldier at the scene Friday. The two Israeli victims, a couple in their 50s, had pulled over to the side of the road…
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Opinion How Donald Trump’s Israel Adviser Responded To Our 24-Hour Trumpatorium
David Friedman, who advises Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Israel policy, called the Forward’s decision earlier this week to suspend coverage of the Trump campaign for 24 hours “hypocritical” and “devoid of any journalistic integrity.” He didn’t say that to me. Truth is, I didn’t ask the Trump campaign for comment on the “Trumpatorium”…
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News Can New Israel-Jordan Railway Help Bring Peace?
When trains depart from Haifa in the fall along a new Israeli railway that stops only miles from the Jordanian border, it could revive not only trade but dreams of peace. “We always thought that this line symbolizes peace with the region,” Ilan Rozenfeld, the project director told the Wall Street Journal. “We have been…
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