for Friday, August 4, 2023

History ›

0 History Culture

The true story behind the 'Night of the Murdered Poets'

Rukhl Schaechter in Forward

On August 12, 1952, Stalin's regime executed 13 Jewish cultural figures in Moscow's Lubyanka prison, an event now known as the Night of the Murdered Poets.

Politics ›

0 Politics Antisemitism

The Pittsburgh synagogue shooter got the death penalty. Pennsylvania’s Jewish governor is mum on the sentence.

Jacob Kornbluh in Forward

Following the jury's decision to sentence Robert Bowers to death for the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack, Pennsylvania's Jewish governor, Josh Shapiro, refrained from commenting directly on the death penalty.

Holocaust ›

0 Holocaust Communities

She survived the worst antisemitic attack in US history. Finally, she's ready to talk about it

Benyamin Cohen in Forward

Audrey Glickman, a survivor of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting—the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history—has begun to speak publicly about the trauma after years of silence during the gunman's trial.

Editors' Note

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August 4's Short Reads

Tablet An Indie It Girl Grows Up

Tablet The Value of Inclusion

Forward A progressive Jewish group is pressuring Democrats to reject AIPAC endorsements

Moment Fiction // The Goose Girl

Lilith The Jewish Queen of Makeup

Moment From the Newsletter | When the State Serves Death

Forward Inspired by Chabad and a teenage mom, he’s given more than a million books to kids in need

Forward Did ‘Borat’ warn us about Rudy Giuliani’s further fall from grace?

Jewish Currents To Grieve the World Like a Dying Friend - What does it mean to build toward a future on a planet in the midst of collapse?

Forward The true story behind the 'Night of the Murdered Poets'

Moment Federal Jury Hands Death Sentence to Tree of Life Synagogue Shooter

Jewish Review of Books Indiana Jones and the Meme-ification of Nazis

Forward Should Jews leave Twitter after Musk reinstated Kanye?

Forward Rabbis didn't love our advice on dating a rabbi

Forward In New York, migrants crowd into hotels seeking shelter — just like Jewish refugees did after WWII

Moment Spice Box | Buy our big wood.

Between The Lines Missing ‘The Conversation’

Tablet The Future of Russian Jewry

Tablet A Summer Home on the Range

Moment Texas to Execute Jewish Man on World Day Against the Death Penalty

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