This is the Forward’s coverage of synagogues, Jewish houses of worship.
Synagogues
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News ‘Are you a Jew?’ To serve on a synagogue board, increasingly the answer can be ‘no’
As more non-Jews join synagogue boards, more congregations are asking whether they should be considered for other leadership roles
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News ‘Make for me a sanctuary’: Amid Orthodox ire, Tbilisi women read Torah for the first time
Georgia's first non-Orthodox synagogue in 2,600 years is attached to a church and a mosque
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Fast Forward The Nazis destroyed a Munich synagogue in 1938. Its remains were just found
Material from Munich's primary synagogue was used to buttress a nearby dam
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News For the first time in decades, synagogues can sponsor refugees — what does that mean?
A new initiative allows private groups to help resettle refugees for the first time since the 1970s
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Culture A pitch clock is shortening baseball games. What if synagogues did the same?
These ‘nu’ rules are intended to speed up services
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Opinion What I wish I had said to a young non-Zionist Jew about Israel
On Israel’s 75th birthday, your questions are exactly what we need
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Yiddish World My shul is named after a shtetl. Read how one woman survived after the Nazis came in.
The author, a member of Toronto’s First Narayever Synagogue, retells the story she found in the town’s memorial book.
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Opinion Was I wrong about antisemitism?
After two antisemitic shootings in Los Angeles, time to rethink
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Opinion New York’s Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani
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News Floyd Mayweather showered cash on Jewish causes — and now he’s suing their ‘Robin Hood’ alleging $175 million got diverted
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Opinion How can I live freely as a Jew in a world where strangers rip my mezuzah off my doorframe?
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Opinion Mamdani has made ample efforts for Jews. How come no one is telling that story?
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Fast Forward NYU student draws hate crime charges for flying flag with swastikas, Star of David over campus building
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Yiddish פֿאָרשונגען פֿון וויכטיקע היסטאָריקער אויף ייִדיש — איצט אַרויס אויף ענגלישResearch studies in Yiddish by noted historians, now in English
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Culture In the course of his 104 years, he resisted the Nazis, fought against blood libel and became a towering Jewish intellectual
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Culture That time Allen Ginsberg wrote a Socialist poem — about Bernie Sanders