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Opinion What I learned about Israeli politics from Yair Lapid
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly newsletter from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print. “I’m in no hurry,” Yair…
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Opinion We are all Lag B’Omer pilgrims on Mount Meron
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print. My daughter nudged me as…
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Opinion Canned beef with juices and other lessons from a year volunteering at the food pantry
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print. We generally show up late…
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Opinion ‘Shabbat is my time for figuring out the world’: a Q/A with Robin Washington, our new Editor-at-Large
This is an adaptation of Looking Forward, a weekly email from our editor-in-chief sent on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print. Something different this week: a…
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Opinion Looking Forward: Introducing a new format for our Editor-in-Chief’s weekly newsletter
This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here for a PDF of stories to savor over Shabbat and Sunday that you can download and print. Shortly after I took this job,…
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Opinion Four Questions about matzo brei, starting with why don’t we eat it year-round
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Opinion Meet the Israeli Reform rabbi who just made history getting elected to Knesset
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Opinion This Passover, we are all segments of the orange on our Seder plates
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