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Forward Photos: A somber Holocaust remembrance trip with Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff 29 Jan 2023
Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a president or vice president, recently embarked on a historic trip to Poland to commemorate Holocau...
29 Jan 2023
Forward My friends won’t take a COVID-19 test before seeing me. Should I drop them? 5 Jan 2023
A reader writes to The Forward's advice column, "Bintel," seeking guidance on how to handle a situation where their friends declined to take a rapid COVID-19...
5 Jan 2023
Forward What does it mean to be 'Jew-ish'? How the term went from warm inside joke to national flashpoint 28 Dec 2022
The term "Jew-ish" has been in the spotlight recently, with public figures like George Santos and Kanye West using it to claim an identity that they aren't a...
28 Dec 2022
Forward In London, an antisemitism scandal has sparked a play about antisemitism. Is it helping? 4 Oct 2022
The Royal Court Theatre in London has sparked an antisemitism scandal by mounting a play called "Rare Earth Mettle," in which the central figure was a power-...
4 Oct 2022
Forward On the brink of a new Iran Deal, our Iran coverage through the decades 12 Jun 2022
This article explores Iran's relationship with Israel and the Jewish community before and after the Islamic revolution. It discusses the end of Iran's diplom...
12 Jun 2022
Forward ‘Everywhere, there was death’: The Forward's groundbreaking coverage of disaster in Ukraine — in the 1930s 1 May 2022
The Forward's groundbreaking coverage in the 1930s of the famine in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor, is highlighted. The Soviet government, under Joseph Stal...
1 May 2022
Forward How the Forward covered Babyn Yar through the decades 12 Mar 2022
The Forward has covered the Babyn Yar massacre in Ukraine, where Nazis killed over 33,000 Jews, since 1941. The initial report came from American corresponde...
12 Mar 2022
Forward ‘It’s so easy to lose touch’: Recovering the history of David Duchovny’s grandfather, a Yiddish writer 17 Oct 2021
David Duchovny, actor and author, revealed in an article that his grandfather, Moshe Duchovny, was a Yiddish language journalist. The Forward's archivist emb...
17 Oct 2021
Forward Timeline | How the Forward covered LGBTQ history 30 Jun 2021
The Forward, an American Jewish newspaper, did not prioritize significant events in LGBTQ history in its coverage. For example, the burning of the Hirschfeld...
30 Jun 2021
Forward We’re here, we’re queer, we’re Yiddish: LGBTQ stories, and silences, in the Forward archives 21 Jun 2021
This article explores the presence and absence of LGBTQ stories in the archives of the Jewish newspaper, The Forward. The author, a queer Yiddish archivist, ...
21 Jun 2021