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News Share your story of how this Seder was different
In every generation, we tell the same story, sing the same songs, eat the same ritual foods. But this year, we did it while sheltering in place, with our small family units or by ourselves. Many of us connected to far-flung relatives and friends by Zoom or some other platform, or dialed into a public…
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Life Do you know someone acting heroically during this pandemic? Tell us their story.
Health-care workers risking infection every day. Volunteers supporting organizations that care for the most vulnerable. Clergy getting creative about how to counsel the grieving, the ill, the lonely. That neighbor who is organizing virtual playdates for the whole block, picking up extra ingredients at the store, or otherwise making this crisis a little more livable….
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Life Video: A very quarantined Four Questions
To help get you in the mood for your virtual Seders, the Forward has created a video with a very special reading of the Four Questions. In “A Very Different Night,”actors from television, film and Broadway, two comics and one dog puppet with an excellent Hebrew accent join to recite the traditional Four Question liturgy…
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Culture The Forward’s Youth Writing Contest: We want to hear from you!
Outside, the sun is shining but the streets are eerily empty. You seem to have more free time than ever but there seems to be less and less to do with it. School’s in session, but when you see your fellow classmates, they’re just little squares on a screen. Passover is approaching, a time when…
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Life Rob Eshman joins The Forward to lead national expansion
Dear Reader, As we continue our commitment to both superb journalism and community-building during this pandemic, we are also deepening our investment to grow the Forward’s footprint nationally. To that end, we are thrilled to announce that we have hired Rob Eshman, the former editor-in-chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Jewish Journal to lead…
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Culture Announcing The Forward’s 2020 Youth Writing Contest
“Sometime perhaps I shall transcend this Americanism in order that I may be free to enjoy the full freedom of those ideals which I now carry in my heart’s heart.” Those words were written by a young man from Delaware named Benjamin Brodinsky who, during the depths of the Depression, was declared the winner of…
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Culture April 12: All-Star Third Seder
Join a celebration of Yiddish culture featuring Frank London, Elmore James, Daniel Kahn, Eleanor Reissa, Steven Skybell, and many more; and, produced by Avram Mlotek and Moishe Rosenfeld. Co-sponsored by: Adrienne Cooper Fund for Dreaming in Yiddish, Ashkenaz of Toronto, Base Hillel, Congress for Jewish Culture, Festival for Jewish Culture in Warsaw, The Forward, JCC…
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News Do you know someone acting heroically during this pandemic?
If you know someone doing something extraordinary during this most extraordinary time, please take a few moments to fill out the form below. We’ll follow up and publish vignettes about these everyday miracle-makers, inspirations to us all. Fill out the form here.
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