The Forward’s managing editor Lillian Swanson speaks with host Josh Nathan-Kazis about the100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and how the Forward will be commemorating the tragedy’s centennial. Then, Forward Fellow Joy Resmovits talks about what she learned during the day she spent as an observer at Haifa’s Rambam hospital. The podcast also…
The rise of independent minyanim, and the Conservative movement’s efforts to reach out to them, and the response of the organized Jewish community to legislation that would further limit abortion rights are the subjects of this week’s Reporters’ Roundtable. Forward editor Jane Eisner and Forward Fellow Joy Resmovits join host Josh Nathan-Kazis. Subscribe to Forward…
The Forward’s Maia Efrem speaks with host Josh Nathan-Kazis about her feature on the 37 American Jewish service members who died in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. Then Josh speaks with news editor Larry Cohler-Esses about the growing organizational crisis affecting America’s liberal denominations. Subscribe to Forward podcasts on iTunes
In this week Forward Reporters’ Roundtable, host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with Forward contributor Eric Trager about the implications of the current uprising in Cairo. Trager was, until recently, doing research in the Egyptian capital. Josh also speaks with Sisterhood blog contributor Sarah Seltzer about new legislative threats to abortion rights and access. At the end…
In this week’s Reporters’ Roundtable, Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with Forward editor Jane Eisner and staff reporter Gal Beckerman about the recent leak of internal documents from the Palestinian negotiating team, and the Forward’s posthumous profile of Samuel T. Cohen — the eccentric Jewish physicist who invented the neutron bomb. Subscribe to Forward podcasts on iTunes
This week, the Reporters’ Roundtable discusses the newly invigorated push from Israel to spring convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from the American prison where he’s incarcerated and the long awaited fracturing of Israeli’s Labor party. Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman and staff writer Gal Beckerman join host Josh Nathan-Kazis. Subscribe to Forward podcasts on iTunes
The subjects of this week’s Reporters’ Roundtable are congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’s Jewish journey, and the growing tensions between the Obama administration’s top Mideast advisers, George Mitchell and Dennis Ross. Web editor Gabrielle Birkner and staff writer Nathan Guttman join host Josh Nathan-Kazis. Subscribe to Forward podcasts on iTunes
The ramifications of New York State’s decision to slash its kosher enforcement division, and the controversy over the death of a Palestinian protester, allegedly as a result of Israel’s use of tear gas are the subjects of this week’s Reporters’ Roundtable. News editor Larry Cohler-Esses and Devra Ferst, who edits the Forward’s food blog, The…
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