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Culture WATCH NOW: December 15: Why can’t we solve homelessness now?
Watch the recording. Watch four L.A. leaders in homeless advocacy, services and urban design in an in-depth discussion with Forward National Editor Rob Eshman on solving LA’s most intractable problem now. What are new effective ideas for tackling homelessness? How will COVID-19 present challenges and opportunities for solving homelessness? What role can government, private enterprise,…
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Culture WATCH NOW: December 9: The Jewish Democratic Vote in 2020
Watch the recording here. The 2020 election results challenged the idea that Florida is a swing state, with Donald Trump winning the state for the second time. Join U.S. Representative Ted Deutch of Florida’s 22nd District for an in-depth discussion with Forward National Editor Rob Eshman on what it means for the future of Democrats…
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Culture WATCH NOW: December 8: Innovate or Die: How Jewish nonprofit leadership weathered 2020 and is leaning into 2021
WATCH THE RECORDING. A global pandemic, a racial reckoning and the most divisive political campaign in memory were among the unprecedented challenges our community organizations faced this year. Join Joan Garry, whose second edition of the “Guide to Nonprofit Leadership” will be published in paperback Dec. 22 (preorder here); Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the…
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Culture WATCH NOW: December 3: Healing Racial Divides – Lessons from Chicago
Watch the recording here. How can Black and Jewish congregations find meaningful ways to help heal America’s racial divisions? What role can Jews of Color play in communal approaches to racism and justice? Join Cydney Wallace, activist and co-founder of Kol Or, JCUA’s Jews of Color Caucus; Pastor Chris Harris of Bright Star Church; and…
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Culture Louise Glück, Jewish poet of classical themes, wins the Nobel Prize
In the maelstrom of coronavirus, Borough Park protests and vice-presidential debates, finally some good news: Poet Louise Glück has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The granddaughter of Hungarian Jews who ran a New York grocery, she is the first Jewish literature laureate since Bob Dylan, who took the prize in 2016. The Swedish…
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Fast Forward Stephen Miller tests positive for COVID-19, the disease that killed his grandmother
Stephen Miller, a top aide to President Donald Trump, has tested positive for coronavirus. The New York Times reported that Miller tested positive Tuesday after a series of negative tests. Miller’s wife, Katie Miller, contracted the virus this spring. She is Vice President Mike Pence’s communications director. Miller’s grandmother, Ruth Glosser, died from COVID-19 in…
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News ICYMI: Catch up with the Forward’s coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death
We know many Forward readers were offline for Rosh Hashanah and may not have seen our coverage of Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death over the weekend. So we put together this guide to the stories we have published — and some of our favorite Jewish stories from while the justice is alive. Like most news outlets,…
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News Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away. Here are some of our favorite Jewish stories from her life.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away at the age of 87. The cause was metastatic pancreatic cancer. Over the years, the Forward collected some remarkable stories of Ginsburg’s life, as they related both to her story judicial career and her status as a pop culture icon: “Notorious R.B.G.” Here are some of…
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Fast Forward Their Pacific Palisades synagogue is standing, but all three rabbis lost their homes
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News Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
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News ‘Do you have the Torahs?’ Synagogue races LA wildfire to rescue its past and future
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Opinion Why is Netanyahu poised to OK a ceasefire that’s favorable to Hamas? One word: Trump
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Opinion I’m a Jew who teaches at Rutgers. Our campuses must stop trying to pacify the government over antisemitism
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Film & TV How the discovery of a secret tunnel inspired a film about Jewish resistance
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Music In lawsuit, Drake accuses Kendrick Lamar of picking on ‘Jewish Heritage’
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Yiddish אַ פֿריִערדיקער גילגול פֿון בינעם העלערס באַרימט ליד „מײַן שוועסטער חיה“A previous version of Binem Heller’s iconic poem, ‘My Sister Khaye’
דעם ערשטן נוסח האָט ער געשריבן אין 1934 אונטער אַ פּסעוודאָנים, צוליב פּאָליטישע סיבות.
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