Adam Kovac is a staff reporter at the Forward, covering breaking news. He can be reached at kovac@forward.com or on Twitter as @AdamJKovac.
Adam Kovac
By Adam Kovac
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News The nationalists win in Quebec again, disconcerting many of the province’s Jews
The party that prohibited some civil servants from wearing yarmulkes won in a landslide
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Fast Forward Rabbi to the rescue: A Chabad team borrows a boat and assists 4 Orlando-area families
First responders told a family in Kissimmee, Florida, that they didn’t know how long they’d have to wait to be rescued. But one rabbi was ready to move.
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News In the path of Hurricane Ian, rabbis open their homes and safeguard Torahs
'It’s pretty awful out there,' said Rabbi Bruce Diamond, watching the hurricane rage outside his Fort Myers home
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News Why right-wing Christian politicians are blowing the shofar
To many Jews, it’s a hijacking of a sacred object, often by those who traffic in antisemitism
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News Pay to pray? Not anymore. Many synagogues no longer charging for High Holiday tickets
‘It makes sense to us to reduce any perceived barriers to coming to synagogue,’ one rabbi said
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Fast Forward New York Hasidic community denounces upcoming New York Times report on yeshivas
Ahead of Regents vote on state oversight of private schools, summary of report sparks ire in Orthodox circles
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News New Jersey restaurant closes after owner accused of buying non-kosher meat
A kosher certification firm advises customers to purify utensils after pulling the heckscher from the popular eatery
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News As Yeshiva University fights to block LGBTQ group, not all its grad schools are on board
Some of the Orthodox university’s more progressive graduate programs may be rooting for its Supreme Court petition to fail
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