I start with the difficult news: This will be my last Jane Looking Forward newsletter, at least in its current form. I’ve been asked to step down as editor-in-chief, effective at the end of this month, and am evaluating what role I would like to have in the future with Forward management. But that’s not…
In her new book, “Antisemitism: Here and Now,” Deborah Lipstadt presents what she calls a taxonomy of Jewish hatred. There is the unambiguous extremist, the sort who marches with torches in Charlottesville, and who believes, with some justification, that there is a sympathizer in the White House. There is the utilitarian anti-Semite, “the pot-stirrer who…
Even several decades ago, it became clear to a lot of very smart people that traditional journalism was in trouble. Newspaper circulation was shrinking. Trust in media was endangered. Long before the complete meltdown in advertising, the competition online, the advent of “fake news,” there was a sense that journalism was disconnecting from its essential…
Here is my resolution, and my request, for 2019: That we banish the use of the term “self-hating Jew.” There are Jews who hate Judaism. There are Jews who may hate Israel. There are Jews who may hate other Jews. In a society that values freedom of speech, conscience and expression, that ought to be…
The Intercept today published an account of what happened to Bahia Amawi, a speech pathologist who has worked for the last nine years with developmentally disabled, autistic and speech-impaired elementary school students. Every year since 2009, Amawi has signed a contract with a school district that includes Austin, Texas to provide assessment and support for…
As we lined up backstage this morning at the Anti-Defamation League’s “Never Is Now” summit, historian Deborah Lipstadt remarked that she never thought we’d be here. Not here speaking about anti-Semitism before a large audience of concerned citizens. If I wade into the topic with some regularity, Deborah — author of a soon-to-be released book…
Four years ago, Forward reporter Josh Nathan-Kazis embarked on an ambitious project: a comprehensive survey of the financial workings of the Jewish charitable sector in the U.S. Entitled “$26 Billion Bucks” — the net assets of the Jewish community’s federations, schools, health care organizations and other not-for-profit groups that publicly report their finances — Josh’s…
The two reporters who wrote the story splashed across the cover of the Sunday New York Times Style section asking whether Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are “good for the Jews” managed to quote only one woman — and 11 men. Sigh. I’m afraid this isn’t the first time the vaunted Times — a news…
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