Adam Kovac is a staff reporter at the Forward, covering breaking news. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter as @AdamJKovac.
Adam Kovac
By Adam Kovac
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Fast Forward Russia bombs Ukrainian city of Uman, a pilgrimage site for Haredi Jews
The city is home to the gravesite for Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, which in the past has attracted thousands of visitors every Rosh Hashanah
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Fast Forward Dana Bash, Jewish host of CNN’s special on antisemitism, takes over as anchor on flagship political show
Bash, daughter of a Judaic studies scholar, succeeds ex-husband John King at the desk of ‘Inside Politics’
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News This Jewish disease wreaks havoc. But it may have an upside.
The disorder — debilitating if untreated — may also offer protection against deadly tuberculosis
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Fast Forward Is a Texas bill requiring the Ten Commandments in public schools bad for the state’s Jews?
An organization dedicated to the separation of church and state says yes
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Fast Forward It’s Hitler’s birthday. Here’s why so few antisemites are celebrating
While some still look up to the Nazi leader, appreciation among many far-right extremists is steeped in irony
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Fast Forward Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors live in poverty. This foundation wants to help
For some survivors, basic needs like heat and food are hard to come by
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Fast Forward Risk of hate crimes against Jews and others could rise as 2024 election nears, report says
The authors called on social media companies to deplatform extremists and for Congress to mandate reporting hate crime data
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Fast Forward ADL: As antisemitic incidents skyrocketed in US, other countries saw a decline in 2022
A new ADL report paints a complicated, at times incomplete picture of global antisemitism
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News Dutch Jews grapple with ‘weaponization’ of their fear following attack on Israelis
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Opinion Almost all voting groups shifted toward Trump, except American Jews. Why?
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News What a Secretary of State Marco Rubio would mean for American Jews and Israel
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Fast Forward ‘Antisemitic hit-and-run squads’: Amsterdam temporarily bans demonstrations after Israeli soccer fans attacked by street mobs
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Fast Forward Federal judge temporarily blocks Louisiana’s law requiring classrooms to display Ten Commandments
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Theater They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening
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Opinion Voters elected Hitler because they liked his fascist promise. Trump’s reelection repeats that history
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