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Opinion A Jewish thing happened on the way to our NYC mayoral forum
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. Andrew Yang had a “Jewish gentleman”…
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Opinion Confessions of a lockdown addict: I don’t want to go back to the old “normal”
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. Truth time: I don’t want to…
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Opinion Let’s tell the whole truth when talking about the antisemitism envoy
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. My first close encounter with IfNotNow,…
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Opinion Our synagogue’s Big Idea: shakshuka, scones, maybe a little singing
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. The president of our synagogue called…
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Opinion How Springsteen’s Super Bowl ad and David Schoen’s yarmulke are connected
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Opinion What’s a Snow Day? Another conundrum of our new normal
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Opinion Ella Emhoff isn’t Jewish (and she doesn’t want to talk about it)
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Opinion ‘West Wing’ to Trump White House: Invoke the 25th Amendment
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. Most of what I know about the 25th Amendment to the Constitution I learned from “The West Wing.” For those not as obsessed with the greatest…
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