Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of pogrom – pogroms are violent antisemitic riots targeting Jews.
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Opinion As an Israeli settler, I know our country is far from perfect. Outrage alone won’t change reality
Despite violence in Israel, we cannot stop working toward a better future
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Yiddish World Are Jews afraid of Christmas?
Learn why shtetl Jews covered their pots on Christmas Eve and other fascinating traditions related to the holiday
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Culture In the shadow of the Holocaust, a new Kafkaesque nightmare for Jews in Czechoslovakia
70 years ago, 10 Jews were executed after the antisemitic Slánský trial
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Culture In Poland, a return to the scene of an unspeakable crime
A journey to Jedwabne, site of the massacre of 1,600 Jews, kindles both anger and a sense of redemption
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Culture Breaking the silence on the pogroms in Ukraine
Lisa Brahin recounts a harrowing family story, replete with inspiring heroism and unimaginable cruelty
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Opinion ‘Blood Flows Like Water And People Fall Like Flies,’ The Forverts Remembers The Great War
In April, 1915, as The Great War was raging in Europe, your favorite Yiddish newspaper had 176,125 daily readers, according to the masthead’s circulation figures. The United States had yet to enter the fight, but The Forverts covered it aggressively. And on April 9th, New York-based editors and publishers of foreign language newspapers who differed…
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News This Jewish Comedian Is About To Become Ukraine’s President — No Joke
In a Europe where anti-Semitism is on the rise, a country Jews still associate with the pogrom of family horror stories looks like it’s about to elect a Jewish comedian as head of state. It’s Ukraine, a country of nearly 44 million people. More than one million Jews were murdered here by the Nazis and…
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The Schmooze Is An ‘Escape-the-Room’ Game Based On Pogroms Really Coming To Brooklyn?
You know that awful nightmare you have where you’re stuck in Europe on the eve of the Holocaust and your family can’t get visas and you end up trapped in an attic, trying not to breath as SS soldiers march beneath you? Wild rumors are spreading throughout the Jewish world by ear and by Internet…
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Opinion Yarden Bibas is freed, but his family’s suffering continues. It should enrage us all
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Opinion Is Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to take over Gaza really as ludicrous as it sounds?
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Fast Forward Trump: ‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip’
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Fast Forward Meeting with Netanyahu, Trump doubles down on relocating ‘all’ Palestinians from Gaza
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Fast Forward Man who fired gun outside NY synagogue while shouting ‘Free Palestine’ pleads guilty to hate crime
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