This is the Forward’s coverage of the art of satire. You may also find satirical work of our own here — we will always label these articles to ensure they do not misinform.
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News History Backwards is the Future!
We’re delighted to announce that the Backward has won a record number awards from the Jewish Organization for Satire and Humor (the JOSHies), including the prestigious Lifetime Achievement for a Decade of Jewish Humor In a National Jewish Media Outlet. 2009 For providing ten years of hilarity that have done “more to preserve continuity than…
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Opinion A Modest Proposal: All Palestinians Should Convert to Judaism
Now that the dust has settled on the commemoration of the Balfour Declaration’s centenary, Israel still has a problem. It has established a state in what was Mandate Palestine. But it’s struggling to cement its control over the whole of the land, even though, since 1967, it has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into…
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Opinion Has Trump destroyed satire? Lessons from a Russian dissident.
With the presidency of Donald Trump, America has entered an era of Russian-level political absurdism. We now have our own pop-authoritarian president who promises to personally fix everyone’s problems, blames all of the nation’s ills on the plotting of evil foreigners, vilifies the opposition as “enemies of the people,” and speaks the language of crude…
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Fast Forward Next Likely Chancellor Of Austria Called ‘Baby Hitler’
A German satirical magazine is under investigation after tweeting an image of Sebastian Kurz, an Austrian politician, with crosshairs over his heart next to the words, “Finally possible: Kill baby Hitler,” Politico.eu reported. The tweet was sent out by the magazine Titanic a day after Kurz’s party, the People’s Party, one the most vote in…
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Opinion Raphael Golb Is Facing Jail Time — For Parodying a Dead Sea Scrolls Scholar
In July of 2008, a lawyer and literary scholar named Raphael Golb created an email account named after Lawrence Schiffman, a professor who studies the Dead Sea Scrolls. From [email protected], Golb sent a slew of emails in which, writing as Schiffman, he “admitted” to having plagiarized the work of another Dead Sea Scrolls professor named…
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Fast Forward New Yorker Reminds People That ‘Borowitz Report’ Is Fake News
“Putin Agrees To Receive Intelligence Briefings In Trump’s Place.” “Trump To Step Away From Making His Businesses Bankrupt To Focus On Bankrupting Country.” Did you believe that? Apparently the New Yorker no longer trusts that its readers will sniff a satire in the headlines of its Borowitz Report. Last week, the New Yorker changed the…
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Life Confessions from the Bubble
Note: satire. Ever wondered who voted for Clinton in the last election? Half the country, you say? No, can’t be! There’s this bubble. Trust me. I’m it. As can safely be assumed of every last Clinton voter… I have only ever eaten the following foods: kale, arugula, quinoa, tofu (organic), Vietnamese food prepared by a…
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Culture When Fox News Went From Chinatown to Boro Park in Search of More Stereotypes
After Jesse Watters’s triumphant trip to New York’s Chinatown, he headed south to Boro Park. Having spent time with people vaguely represented in the foreign policy discussion of the Vice Presidential candidates, he wanted to meet the Jews who have been the subjects of so many tweets by Donald Trump’s supporters. The segment hasn’t yet…
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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Opinion I spoke out against Mamdani. Then he won. Here’s how we walk forward together.
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Opinion Why a concert hall should be the last place for a protest — particularly an antisemitic one like this
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News Indiana University removed its Jewish studies director. His replacement has ignited a firestorm over Israel.
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Yiddish אַן אינטערוויו אויף ייִדיש מיט דער פֿילמאָגראַפֿקע פּערל גליקA chat in Yiddish with filmmaker Pearl Gluck
פּערל גליק, וואָס איז דערצויגן געוואָרן אין די חסידישע קרײַזן, וועט דערציילן ווי ייִדיש שפּילט אַ ראָלע אין אירע פֿילמען.
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Opinion Settlers torched a West Bank mosque — and the milquetoast Israeli mainstream response won’t suffice
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Culture This Jesus horror movie could have used more heresy
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Film & TV Her parents fled Mexico and Mandatory Palestine, taking their traumas with them
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