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Culture Is RFK about to ban goyslop — and what on earth is that?
Online, an antisemitic term for low-quality food has gone mainstream in the wake of RFK's war on Big Food
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Fast Forward Streaming platform Twitch bans the word ‘Zionist’ as a proxy for spreading hate toward Jews and Israelis
The move comes following mounting complaints of antisemitism on the platform favored by video gamers
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Fast Forward The deadly pager operation in Lebanon is no laughing matter. Or is it?
Memes celebrating the deaths of Hezbollah operatives spark a Jewish debate on social media
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Culture What’s your candidate’s position on Israel? Depends what demographic you’re in
Targeted political ads enable campaigns to present one idea to one group, and a different one to another
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News Jewish influencer Ellie Zeiler swaps jet-setting for Jerusalem, taking her 20 million followers along
Zeiler, who has been an influencer for half her life, has enrolled in an Orthodox seminary to study Judaism.
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Books Old Jewish Men — and all aspiring to that status — now have a guide of their own
The founder of the viral brand speaks to the zen of being aged, Hebraic and direct to a fault
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News What you need to know about Telegram, the embattled app Hamas uses to spread its message
The app has exploded in popularity in Israel following Oct. 7 and is known for its lack of content moderation
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Fast Forward DOJ: Russia targeted Jews in a campaign to influence elections
The Forward was one of several news outlets attacked as part of illegal propaganda war, Department of Justice charges
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Fast Forward Trump to ‘defend the rights of Christians,’ announces new faith initiative led by controversial televangelist
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Music Critics say Kendrick Lamar was too loud and hard to understand — they said the same thing about Bob Dylan in Newport
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Music In lawsuit, Drake accuses Kendrick Lamar of picking on ‘Jewish heritage’
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Opinion Yes, Trump’s Gaza plan is outrageous. It could also be just what the Middle East needs
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Fast Forward A grant to study Hebrew is ‘woke DEI,’ Ted Cruz says
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Fast Forward Macklemore’s latest anti-Israel music video, ‘F—ed up,’ places the West Bank and Holocaust side-by-side
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Opinion Why does Trump’s Gaza plan sound so familiar? Because the Nazis tried it first
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News Burned trees, traumatized animals: Nature is revealing the unseen effects of Israel’s wars
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