Benyamin Cohen is a senior writer at the Forward. Follow him on Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, and sign up for his morning newsletter, Forwarding the News, which gets you caught up on all the Jewish news to know each day. He is the author of two books, My Jesus Year and The Einstein Effect, and has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post. He lives with his wife in West Virginia with their three dogs, a cat and a flock of chickens known as the Co-Hens.
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The Forward's first issue was published 125 years ago. I came decades later. And a bunch of other things happened on April 22.
Sheryl Grossman once told me that her goal was to become the oldest person with Bloom’s Syndrome, a genetic disorder so rare that doctors have recorded fewer than 400 cases since it was named in 1954. One in four of those afflicted with the disease, like my friend Sheryl, are Ashkenazi Jews; most died before…
The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill on Tuesday to make daylight saving time permanent across the nation. It will now go to the House for a vote. If passed, the new law will complicate life for observant Jews, whose rituals are tied to the clock – prayers and other commandments that are required…
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