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News Jacob Kornbluh joins the Forward as part of newsroom hiring push
As the coronavirus pandemic was first causing controversy in Orthodox enclaves of Brooklyn last spring, the Forward published a profile of Jacob Kornbluh, a Hasidic journalist for Jewish Insider, under the headline, “A prophet in his own city.” Then and throughout the year, Kornbluh’s brave reporting on his own community’s refusal to adhere to social-distancing…
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Opinion A TikTok Hanukkah miracle — and your weekend reads
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 to download and print a PDF of Your Weekend Reads. This is a story about everything and nothing, and it happened right here…
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Opinion What to do about Hanukkah 2020? Count your miracles
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 to download and print a PDF of Your Weekend Reads. For our Big Fat Jewish Wedding in 2004, the husband and I registered…
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Opinion ‘Let’s say yes!’ and other lessons from our Zoom Mitzvah
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 to download and print a PDF of Your Weekend Reads. We were invited to not one but three Bnei Mitzvah on March 21,…
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Opinion Go ahead, call it a cult: I’m grateful for my Peloton
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. Maybe my strangest personal development in this strangest of years is that I have started going to church. Not, you know, actually going, of course —…
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News Jews without buffets — and your weekend reads
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 to download and print a PDF of Your Weekend Reads. Jodi Rudoren, our editor-in-chief, is off today for her twins’ bnai mitzvah, so…
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Opinion What should Joe Biden do? And: Your weekend reads
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 to download and print a PDF of Your Weekend Reads. Another surreal week in America. We have a President-elect and a President-reject. The…
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Opinion Hey, we’re less divided than everyone else — and your weekend reads
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 to download and print a PDF of Your Weekend Reads. So many words have been written this week, some of them by me,…
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