Matthew Litman is an editorial fellow at the Forward. Get in touch at [email protected].
Matthew Litman
By Matthew Litman
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Culture ‘We’re all scarred in different ways’: The next generation of Holocaust testimony
As survivors die, their descendants are finding new ways to keep their stories alive
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Tired of dry Hamantashen and boring fillings, I went on a quest for something new
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Opinion After Tree of Life sentencing, 6 Jewish scholars on what text and tradition say about the death penalty
Robert Bowers has been given the death penalty. What does Jewish law say?
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Culture 75 years ago, Israel gained independence. How did the media cover it?
We surveyed the front pages of papers at home and abroad to learn how the world understood Israel’s founding
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Culture ‘The first thing I did was kiss the ground:’ Readers write about their first trips to Israel
Memories of archaeological digs, a sense of Jewish connection and both optimism and fear in the Jewish state
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News Photos: In the middle of Times Square, a Holocaust cattle car
A striking new Holocaust exhibit hopes to raise awareness for antisemitism and all kinds of hatred
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Readers respond to our editor-in-chief’s column about a Passover copy-editing conundrum
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Opinion We called Zionists ‘snowflakes.’ You gave us your thoughts.
'Hatred and death threats, like beauty, may be in the eye of the beholder,' one reader wrote
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