This is the Forward’s coverage of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest.
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Looking Forward The raw truth about ‘The Raw Truth About Lox’
A parable as much about how the internet works as how food memories are made
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Looking Forward What you and I are repenting for this Yom Kippur
For the sins we committed by... holding grudges... ranting... mistrusting... and being impatient
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Looking Forward Eggs or meat? More lessons from my weekly shift at a local food pantry
Oatmeal and black beans are big sellers, diapers are like gold and, it turns out, so are eggs
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Community Readers share how they turn Saturday into Shabbat
Hot cocoa from the bible, bluegrass and opera, sleeping late and cleaning house
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Looking Forward How do you turn Saturday into Shabbat?
A local cafe owner closed for the Jewish day of rest. Revenue is down 12% but his spirit is up
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Books ‘Shabbat Shalom and Sayonara’: Loyalists tried to oust Kushner via Shabbat meeting with Trump
Former White House advisor Peter Navarro details in new book an effort to replace Jared Kushner with Steve Bannon as head of the 2020 campaign amid dismal polling
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Looking Forward What I learned about the Holocaust playing a game called ‘Gestapo’
There is no good strategy for choosing when to risk family, community, religion, civil liberties and life itself
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News Josh Shapiro traces bid for Pennsylvania governor to his childhood work for Soviet Jews
In an interview, Shapiro says this is the first time a Republican opponent, Doug Mastriano, presents an ‘existential threat’ to democracy
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Opinion Trump has forced an impossible choice on American synagogues amid antisemitic attacks
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Fast Forward Joe Kent, now under investigation, insinuates to Tucker Carlson that Israel might have killed Charlie Kirk to stoke Iran war
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Fast Forward ‘I’m alive!’: Netanyahu speaks in-person amid ongoing online rumors claiming he’s dead
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Fast Forward Can James Talarico’s faith-forward politics invigorate the Jewish religious left?
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Fast Forward JB Pritzker once donated to AIPAC. Now he says he wants nothing to do with it.
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