Carly Rae Brown tuned into the livestream early, making sure she didn’t miss a minute of her role model, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, interviewed by the Forward’s Jane Eisner Thursday evening, February 1. Sitting in front of her mother’s laptop computer, the 9-year-old fourth grader from Evansville, Indiana, watched anxiously. Answering a…
A sigh of relief was heard Thursday night across a packed synagogue sanctuary in Washington as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg reassured concerned liberals that she is not retiring from the bench. “Many people have asked me when are you going to step down,” she acknowledged, as a member of the audience shouted out “never.” Ginsburg,…
Thursday is part of the weekend, right? This week, definitely: On Thursday night, Supreme Court Justice and pop culture icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg will speak with Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner at Washington D.C.’s Adas Israel Congregation. While the event itself is sold out, the Forward will be livestreaming it; learn how to watch it, here….
On Thursday, February 1 at 7pm EST, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will join Forward Editor-in-Chief, Jane Eisner in a conversation that explores the intersection of law, media and Jewish life. Congregation Adas Israel • Washington, DC Join the webcast—simply RSVP by completing this form. Loading…
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The headline on a recent Forward interview with Sheryl Sandberg asks if Sandberg can help Americans learn to grieve. Sandberg has certainly done all of us a great service by opening up a conversation about the way American do –- and don’t –- deal with death, dying and grief. In the essay that follows this…
Although I was a young girl when the Six Day War broke out, I clearly remember the 5th of June, 1967. I had no personal connection to the war. Our family had no relatives or close friends in Israel at the time; the country was as abstract as the map on my Hebrew school classroom…
During his campaign, Trump promised that he would honor a longstanding American commitment and finally move the American embassy in Israel from it’s current home in Tel Aviv to West Jerusalem, where the seat of the Israeli government is located. For more than a decade, no foreign embassy has been located there, and the world…
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