Letters from the Editor
What Saeb Erekat taught me about the peace process — and your weekend reads
The prognosis is grim for Saeb Erekat, grimmer even than the dire outlook for the peace process that has been his life’s work. Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator for as long as anyone can remember, has Covid-19 and is in critical condition at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
What smoked fish and Haredi Jews don’t have in common — and your weekend reads
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On the first night of Sukkot, ‘rain feels very 2020’ — and your weekend reads
It was another surreal morning. Breakfast was tie-dye waffles with a side of radio news about the president’s coronavirus. Afterward, the kids went (upstairs) to school and the husband and I headed out back to position the tables in our soggy sukkah for max social distance. “I will just say,” he noted as we returned inside to more medical and political analysis on NPR, “rain on the first night of Sukkot feels very 2020.”
We asked you to share your sins. Here’s what 127 readers said.
We asked readers what they were repenting for this year. Here’s what 127 of them said.
‘Let’s roll!’: The daughter of the Jewish hero of Flight 93 was in “Fiddler on the Roof”
Remembering what I did on 9/11 — and 9/12 — and your weekend reads from The Forward
A summer of service — and your weekend reads
__A summer of service: ‘I learned that power never exists on its own’
For the sins we committed by publishing articles with typos….
For the High Holidays, confessing our individual sins