Some Putin for Purim
The Backward is the Forward’s annual satirical Purim edition. Enjoy! Moscow’s strong man, Russian president Vladimir Putin, visits the new local Jewish museum where two docents show him around.
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The Backward is the Forward’s annual satirical Purim edition. Enjoy! More stories here… Over a decade of trips means the “Taglit-Birthright Israel” bus is an accustomed sight throughout Israel, usually idling in front of you for hours in traffic. But now a lot more of those buses are expected to dot the Jewish State —…
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Culture Aly Project a Golden Success
The Backward is the Forward’s annual satirical Purim edition. Enjoy! More stories here… Aly Raisman, the young gymnast who won hearts around the world with her gold medal floor routine set to “Hava Nagila,” is actually the product of the top-secret Aleph Project, a multi-year scientific effort to develop a Jewish sports icon for the…
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Culture Cutbacks on Volunteer Trips Fatally Weaken College Resumés
The Backward is the Forward’s annual satirical Purim edition. Enjoy! More stories here… Recent cuts to service trips for Jewish teens may devastate one of the core missions of the Jewish organizational world — getting Jewish students into the best universities. Now, a variety of Jewish not-for-profit organizations are racing to fill the gaps in…
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Culture Backward Looking Back: Glimpses of the Backward Archives
The Backward is the Forward’s annual satirical Purim edition. Enjoy! More stories here… 100 years ago 1913 Backward editor Babe Kahan returned from a month-long trip to Europe, during which he visited those “bastions of peaceful civilization” France and Germany, as well as the “delightful” Balkan countries of Serbia and Montenegro. In each community Kahan…
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Culture Lost in Language: Of Dead Dogs, Living Lions & Bifid Uvulae
The Backward is the Forward’s annual satirical Purim edition. Enjoy! More stories here… In Kohelet it says, “For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.” Now quite why the writer of Kohelet wants to be joined to a living dog…
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Culture The Partial Pinking of Hamas
The Backward is the Forward’s annual satirical Purim edition. Enjoy! More stories here… In a surprise development following its recent endorsement of women rabbis, Hamas announced last week that it is preparing to embrace gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered individuals for new roles in its own community. “We think they would make excellent suicide bombers,”…
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“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything – other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world’s otherness is antidote to confusion – that standing within this otherness – the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books – can re-dignify…
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