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Fast Forward Brooklyn synagogue vandalized with ‘Hitler’ graffiti
Congregation Beth Shalom is attended by a significant number of Holocaust survivors
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Opinion An honest conversation about JFREJ
The ADL recently accused the Jewish progressive group of being "out of touch" with mainstream Jewish values
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Opinion What one hotly watched Manhattan race tells us about New York’s Jewish voters
If supporting Israel has become a wedge issue, NY-12's Democratic candidates seem not to have gotten the memo
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Opinion WATCH: What do New Yorkers think about the Nadler/Maloney primary faceoff?
Our intrepid reporters paid a visit to Zabar's and Eli's Market to find out what residents think about the race for the new 12th District
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Looking Forward ‘The people’s temple,’ where condos now sell for $2 million
For the Forward’s 125th anniversary, our editor went on a pilgrimage to the newspaper’s landmarked headquarters on the Lower East Side
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Culture In Satmar Williamsburg, even the Legos wear yarmulkes
Frieda Vizel left the Satmar world at 25 — but she still visits twice a week to give tours of Hasidic Williamsburg
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Culture Who serves the best kosher pizza in NYC? We found out
We regret to inform you that at least one Ashkenazi digestive tract was harmed during this investigation
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Culture He wrote a beloved prayer book. But his gravestone misspelled his name.
Philip Birnbaum, who died in 1988, was a man careful with language, yet a stone of eight words had three errors
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