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News How is this White House Seder different from all others?
The Biden administration is hosting a virtual Passover Seder open to the general public on Thursday in a move to expand its outreach to the broader American Jewish community, the White House told the Forward on Wednesday. Douglas Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris and a Member of the Tribe, is expected to…
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News After King Soopers massacre, Boulder’s Jews mourn friends and neighbors
Just before authorities released the names of the victims of the Boulder, Colorado shooting, Liz Hanson woke up and got dressed, slipping into a pair of tie-dyed pants she bought at the store of her friend Lonna Bartkowiak. Moments later she learned that Bartkowiak, 49, had been shot and killed. “I found out she was…
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Fast Forward Boulder Jewish community responds to tragic mass shooting
The Boulder Jewish community is coming together to grieve the 10 lives lost in the devastating mass shooting that took place in a Boulder supermarket on Monday. The Boulder JCC will host “Coming Together as a Community ,” a virtual gathering of synagogues, Haver (Boulder’s Rabbinic Council), and the Boulder JCC to mourn the victims…
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News Jewish history, and RBG, shaped Rachel Wainer Apter’s path to New Jersey’s top court
When Rachel Wainer Apter told her three children that she had just been nominated as a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, they were overwhelmed with excitement. “They laughed, they cried, and they screamed – all at the same time,” Apter, an Orthodox Jew and resident of Englewood, NJ, told the Forward in an…
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Recipes The Jewish Herbal: Passionvine
The Jewish Herbal: Mystical Reflections on Food, Nature and Urban Farming” is a regular column by Devorah Brous charting the ways we can use Jewish wisdom, tradition and practice to reconnect with ourselves in harmony with nature. Devorah is an urban homesteader, lifecycle ritualist, and green consultant in Los Angeles. Find her her online offerings…
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Community Reigniting charoses traditions
Growing up in Chicago in the 1950s, mine was the only lunch bag that trailed matzo crumbs. On coming to America we lived in a Polish Catholic immigrant neighborhood so I had no friends with whom to compare seder rituals. Despite this, Passover has always been my favorite holiday. No other yontiff rituals compared to…
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News The next big Jewish publication? It might be on Substack.
When Jewish In Seattle magazine went on hiatus last March, Emily Alhadeff, its editor, pondered her options. After 10 years in Jewish journalism, she knew the community needed objective reporting. She considered launching her own newspaper, but the startup costs were daunting — and she wasn’t sure she could find funding. Still, she knew the…
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene has a new spin on the Jewish space lasers remark
'I didn’t even know and didn’t find out until recently that the Rothschilds were Jewish'
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