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Eggs or meat? More lessons from my weekly shift at a local food pantry
Oatmeal and black beans are big sellers, diapers are like gold and, it turns out, so are eggs
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How do you turn Saturday into Shabbat?
A local cafe owner closed for the Jewish day of rest. Revenue is down 12% but his spirit is up
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“Three Minutes”: a 1938 film shot in Poland sparks connection among 300 descendants of a lost Jewish community
The faces of the children follow you in the film, hauntingly, because you'll never know most of their names.
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What I learned about the Holocaust playing a game called ‘Gestapo’
There is no good strategy for choosing when to risk family, community, religion, civil liberties and life itself
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What I learned moderating a congressional candidate debate
They like seeded bagels. They love Israel and hate BDS. And one of them can't seem to follow a countdown clock
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The big question nobody’s asking about Andrew Yang’s new political party
‘Not Left, Not Right. Forward.’ may be a losing political formula but its not a bad mantra for a news organization
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‘The people’s temple,’ where condos now sell for $2 million
For the Forward’s 125th anniversary, our editor went on a pilgrimage to the newspaper’s landmarked headquarters on the Lower East Side
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My generation of parents is ruining sleep-away camp
Hopeless helicopters insist on optimizing their offspring's every experience, anathema to the essence of camp
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The story behind the stories: How our journalists produced award-winning work last year
Our editor-in-chief reflects on the Forward’s record-breaking haul at the Jewish Pulitzers
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‘We don’t live in the abstract’: 3 Jewish women on the fall of Roe v. Wade
Forward editors process the reversal of 50 years of abortion access.
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This week’s Torah portion is all about the importance of independent journalism
The 12 men sent to scout the promised land brought back facts. But the community heard them with biased ears.
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