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Fast Forward Foundation to give award named for Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch
The late Supreme Court justice's family has objected to the honors
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Fast Forward USPS releases Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamp, 3 years after Jewish Supreme Court justice’s death
The USPS says the new stamp honors 'an American icon'
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Fast Forward The Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital in Brooklyn is ready for patients. It can withstand a storm worse than Sandy
The storm-resilient complex features a 7-foot-tall bronze statue of the Supreme Court justice, a Brooklyn native
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Fast Forward Remembering Larry Josephson, a NY radio pioneer with a late love for all things Jewish
Josephson’s 50-year career as a producer included two series focused specifically on the Jewish community: “Only in America: The Story of American Jews,” and “What Is Judaism?”
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Opinion I was RBG’s rabbi. Her legacy demands we fight for human dignity and reproductive rights.
Grief is a complicated animal. I have often described its presence to my congregants as a mountain — sometimes it is across from you and you can see it, sometimes you are climbing it, sometimes you have summited it and sometimes it is just right on top of you. We do not control it, we…
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News Jewish history, and RBG, shaped Rachel Wainer Apter’s path to New Jersey’s top court
When Rachel Wainer Apter told her three children that she had just been nominated as a justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, they were overwhelmed with excitement. “They laughed, they cried, and they screamed – all at the same time,” Apter, an Orthodox Jew and resident of Englewood, NJ, told the Forward in an…
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Culture Statues of men grace parks and town squares, so why does RBG get a shopping mall?
Grocery shopping in Brooklyn has been as hellish, if not more so, than everywhere else in the pandemic. Trader Joe’s lines snaked fully around the block even during wintry weather. All year, the doors to City Point Brooklyn, where my closest TJ’s is located, have represented the joys of indoor warmth, everything bagel seasoning and…
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News A bronze Ruth Bader Ginsburg is watching over Brooklyn — and Trader Joe’s
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born and raised in the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn; now, a statue of her will carry on her legacy in her home borough, unveiled on Friday for an invited audience of approximately 30, largely judges and members of city government. The bronze likeness stands just inside the doors of CityPoint, a…
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