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Forward ‘We’re all scarred in different ways’: The next generation of Holocaust testimony 14 Jun
Descendants of Holocaust survivors, part of a community called Generations Forward, are proactively engaging with their family trauma and sharing their stori...
14 Jun
Forward Is 'L'Shana Tova' the correct phrase for Rosh Hashanah? 14 Sep 2023
This article discusses the controversy surrounding the phrase "L'Shana Tova" as a greeting for Rosh Hashanah. The author explains that the grammatically corr...
14 Sep 2023
Forward How I stumbled upon thousands of Holocaust-era letters and traced the stories behind them 10 Sep 2023
In this article, the author describes how they stumbled upon thousands of Holocaust-era letters while researching a column called "Seeking Relatives" in the ...
10 Sep 2023
Forward This editor helped thousands of Holocaust survivors. But he rarely talked about it. 10 Sep 2023
Isaac Metzker, a legendary editor at the Forward, is credited with overseeing the Seeking Relatives column, which helped thousands of Jewish refugees and Hol...
10 Sep 2023
Forward After Tree of Life sentencing, 6 Jewish scholars on what text and tradition say about the death penalty 2 Aug 2023
After the death penalty was sentenced for Robert Bowers, the man who murdered 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue, six Jewish scholars disc...
2 Aug 2023
Forward What I learned about Georgian cooking from a guy I met at church 14 Jul 2023
This article describes the writer's experience learning about Georgian cooking from a man named Davit Varduashvili, whom they met at church in Tbilisi, Georg...
14 Jul 2023
Forward Anti-Zionist CUNY faculty groups target scholars like me 12 Jul 2023
David Brodsky, an associate professor of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY), writes in response to a flyer accusing him a...
12 Jul 2023
Forward 18 of our best stories in 2023 (so far) and the culture war next door 7 Jul 2023
The author recounts a Supreme Court ruling that allowed a web designer to refuse making wedding websites for same-sex couples, which is followed by a kosher ...
7 Jul 2023
Forward 75 years ago, Israel gained independence. How did the media cover it? 12 May 2023
On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence and the United States recognized the new country. Newspapers around the world covered the event, with themes em...
12 May 2023
Forward I knew Herschel Siegel for his entire life. Don't exploit his death. 9 May 2023
In a letter to the editor, David Schoen criticizes an article that discusses Herschel Siegel's suicide. Schoen argues that the article exploits Herschel's de...
9 May 2023