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Fredda Nightingale reflects on her childhood memories of Passover in Brooklyn, where the blooming magnolia trees heralded the arrival of spring and the holid...

The New York City Council's recent measures aimed at regulating protests near synagogues and schools reflect a nuanced political maneuver. Julie Menin, City ...

Nadav Ziv explores the paradox of Israel’s potential military success in Iran, suggesting that even a decisive victory could lead to adverse outcomes for Isr...

Over 1,000 Diaspora Jews have signed a petition urging Israeli President Isaac Herzog to take action against settler violence in the West Bank, which is bein...

New York City Council has approved legislation establishing protective buffer zones around synagogues to shield them from disruptive protests. Spearheaded by...

Reese's Pieces, a popular candy known for its peanut butter flavor, has been certified kosher pareve, allowing it to be consumed after meat meals, a change t...

In response to the geopolitical and political climate under President Donald Trump's second term, Orthodox Jews in Los Angeles's Pico-Robertson neighborhood ...

Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid's film "Yes!" is a scathing satire on the intertwining of art and nationalism in Israeli society. Although written in 2021, the...

As Argentina commemorates the 50th anniversary of its 1976 military coup, attention is drawn to the disproportionately high number of Jewish individuals amon...

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has launched its inaugural Online Gaming Leaderboard to assess how well online multiplayer games counter antisemitism and ex...

The New York City Council is set to vote on a controversial bill creating protest buffer zones around synagogues, amid concerns over rising antisemitic hate ...

Rep. Brad Schneider has condemned left-wing streamer Hasan Piker for antisemitic remarks, urging Democrats to distance themselves from such controversial fig...

Arno Rosenfeld discusses the rising Islamophobia in America, likening it to the historical framework of antisemitism. He illustrates this with examples of ac...

Gavin Newsom's comments regarding Israel and apartheid have been caught in a whirlwind of controversy, reflecting a broader societal tendency to focus on pol...

Joel Swanson explores the troubling use of antisemitic imagery by Israeli governmental figures to target political adversaries like Iran and others. Highligh...

Supporters of a Jewish charter school in Oklahoma City have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state's prohibition on religious charter schools. The law...

Judaism Unbound, an innovative Jewish organization, offers an alternative to traditional Jewish life by embracing digital platforms, attracting those who fee...

The article explores the impending arrival of two new restaurants near Columbia University: the Palestinian cuisine-focused Hinds Hall Ayat and the Israeli s...

Edward Serotta, an American Jewish photojournalist, was secretly surveilled by Romania's notorious secret police, the Securitate, during the 1980s due to his...

Avraham Burg, a prominent figure of the Israeli left and former interim president, recently engaged in a surprising conversation with Tucker Carlson, a right...

King Charles III has become the first patron of the Community Security Trust (CST), the UK’s leading antisemitism watchdog, following an arson attack involvi...

The Iowa City Yiddish Group, originally formed during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been utilizing the "Yiddish with Rukhl" podcasts from the Forverts to enhanc...

California Governor Gavin Newsom expressed regret over using the term "apartheid" to describe the situation in Israel, a comment which had previously caused ...

Nicholas Lemann's memoir, "Returning: A Search for Home Across Three Centuries," explores his family's history as assimilated Jews in the American South, con...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 remains a critical reminder of the need for strong labor laws, yet the hard-won protections it inspired are curr...

The play "Giant," now on Broadway, explores an imagined confrontation between Roald Dahl and his publishers following Dahl's antisemitic comments in a 1983 r...

Josh Cahan provides a firsthand account of the recent Smol Emuni conference at Bnai Jeshurun in Manhattan, challenging the characterization by the Forward of...

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a memorandum urging Catholic clergy to address misinformation propagated by far-right influencers...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strategic response to increasing tensions with Iran at Dimona is examined through a lens of political and societa...

A proposed merger between Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center and New York City's public hospital system faces delays following the rejection of a fast-trac...

The Forverts podcast episode 11, titled 'Passover,' discusses themes surrounding the Jewish holiday in the context of 1962, reflecting on its cultural and hi...

Jacques Berlinerblau's book "Can We Laugh at That?: Comedy in a Conflicted Age" examines the evolving landscape of comedy and its relationship with free spee...

Tulsa, Oklahoma, traditionally seen as a tumbleweed town, is drawing attention for its unique initiative, "Tulsa Tomorrow," which actively recruits young Jew...

Sheba Rasson shares a personal account of her experiences as an Iranian Jew in the context of Israel's ongoing conflict with Iran. She reflects on her multi-...

Dan Sheena, a TikTok creator and Arabic teacher, is on a mission to revive the nearly extinct language of Judeo-Arabic through social media and online classe...

Germany has ceased its defense of Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against genocide allegations related to the Gaza conflict, citing a need...

The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, claiming that the institution permitted an antisemitic environment on campus by bein...

This piece contrasts the literary legacies of two New Jersey-born American Jewish writers, Philip Roth and Judy Blume. While Roth is often celebrated as a se...

Jason Stahl, an inventive deli operator in Jersey City, has brought a modern twist to Jewish culinary traditions through his business, Hank Schwartz’s Delica...

Emily Tamkin argues for the need to open up honest conversations about Israel and its influence in American politics to combat the spread of antisemitic cons...

Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, has made controversial insinuations linking Israel to the murder of right-wing pundit ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a viral rumor of his death by appearing at a rare in-person press conference, countering claims he had be...

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, a Jewish Democrat and former AIPAC donor, has vocally distanced himself from the pro-Israel lobbying group, criticizing its tr...

Paul Klee, a renowned German artist and a pivotal figure in abstract, surrealist, and expressionist art, is re-examined in "Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds,...

Amidst a military conflict involving multiple fronts, including Iran, air travel in Israel has become increasingly disrupted, with major cancellations at Ben...

In a heartwarming display of interfaith solidarity, West Bloomfield's Iraqi Christian Chaldean community rapidly responded to an attempted attack on Temple I...

The article discusses the recent expulsion of Rabbi Scott Elkan, a former co-director of Oberlin Chabad, from Oberlin College after online chats surfaced rev...

Lore Segal, a revered Jewish storyteller who passed away in 2024 at age 96, is celebrated for her incisive and minimalist literary style in the posthumous co...

Rabbi Gesa Ederberg's installation as the first European president of the Rabbinical Assembly marks significant progress in the Conservative Jewish movement....

Fox's new miniseries, "The Faithful: Women of the Bible," offers a fresh, if dramatized, perspective on biblical women, starting with Hagar, Sarah, and Abrah...