How do Jews in America live today? And how do they party, celebrate, throw down, and share joy? For this new Life feature, we’ll attend three diverse Jewish social events and share our experiences of all three. If you would like your event to be covered by the Forward, email singer@forward.com Drinking, for the culture…
(Haaretz) The modest apartment in one of the side streets of Bnei Brak, where Shimon Hayut grew up, is light-years away from the private jets, racing cars and luxury hotels in which he has been spending his time in recent years. Hayut, 28, lived the hedonistic life of a millionaire. Not any old millionaire, but…
“Nice Jewish Guys, 2019 Calendar” (2018) by Adam Cohen for Workman Publishing, glossy paper, 12×12 Viewed at the Forward, at my desk, October 2018 The 2019 edition of the “Nice Jewish Guys” wall calendar, (2018) by Adam Cohen for Workman Publishing on glossy paper, uses a typical “pin-up calendar” model to showcase 12 real-life Jewish…
‘There are four types of people who come to adult Jewish summer camp,” Carine Warsawsky, founder and CEO of Trybal Gatherings, said. “The FOMOs (people who never went to camp,) the Nostalgics (former campers,) the Do-Overs (former campers who had a rotten time,) and Tagalongs (people brought by their friends.)” I nodded, pretending to be…
It was mid-week, and dreary, and the millennial dating panel was my third visit to a Jewish not-for-profit organization that day. I had already finished a day of work at the Forward, and gone to a meeting at a synagogue, and by the time I rushed uptown to the offices of the UJA-Federation, I was…
For regular consumers of Jewish news, the phrase “shidduch crisis” needs no explanation — the phenomenon of Orthodox singles, usually women, facing difficulties finding suitable spouses. But for converts, the struggle of finding a mate takes a strikingly different form, and goes to the very heart of one of the Jewish community’s most important obligations….
In the Torah, God promises Abraham more children than there are stars in the sky and grains of sand in the sea. God is such a drama queen. But those children do tend to congregate — New York has the highest Jewish population of any city in the world other than Tel Aviv — higher,…
Brooke, 30, an Orthodox woman divorced for six years, wants a meaningful relationship that will lead to marriage, but that is proving to be a challenge. She has tried matchmakers, popular in her circle, but most of them don’t give thought to the matches, ignoring her personal qualities and tastes. She’s tried Jewish dating sites…
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