Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at zax@forward.com or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
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News Dispatch from London: In Jewish neighborhoods, shuls and kosher cafes shuttered as Britain buries her queen
A week before the High Holidays, the royal funeral prompts a meditation on ritual and change
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Today: The end of the Alex Jones trial, a German university keeps honoring its antisemitic namesake, and a slew of right-wing attacks on George Soros.
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Forwarding the News The Jewish justice who helped preserve abortion rights in Kansas + What AIPAC had to do with Andy Levin’s defeat
Today: One more stab at talks over an Iran deal, alarming polio vaccination statistics and another — yes, really, another — chapter in the Ben & Jerry’s West Bank saga.
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Forwarding the News In her own words: The girl whose bat mitzvah was disrupted at the Western Wall speaks out
Today: Antisemitism spikes on a far-right social media platform, everything to know about Taiwan’s Jews and, sigh, rapper apologizes for wearing swastika shirt to music festival
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Forwarding the News What Anne Frank has to do with a Forward editor’s new novel + GOP candidate said abortion is worse than the Holocaust
Today: U.S. strike kills top Al Qaeda leader, Jewish pitcher makes the big leagues and the mysteries of pickle pizza.
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Forwarding the News A sneak peek at Jared Kushner’s memoir + AIPAC spending in this week’s state primaries
Today: A possibly antisemitic tirade derailed an elite table tennis competition, and the latest in politics from our Jacob Kornbluh
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A series of conversations among a quintet of critics after a field trip to ‘The Bedwetter’
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Archive On the brink of a new Iran Deal, our Iran coverage through the decades
The task of illuminating the complexity of Jewish life in and in relation to Iran is one the Forward has always taken seriously.
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