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Opinion Editorial | 6 reasons to be hopeful today
My synagogue-mom-friend text-chain was filled with foreboding. “Literally on the cusp of tears,” wrote one. “Drinking wine and thinking I need something stronger,” said another. “Have not looked at results yet,” came the third. “Watching the Queen’s Gambit. Hoping to muster the courage around 9.” This was all before 8 p.m. on Tuesday. I get…
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Opinion Editorial | If your guy wins, please don’t gloat.
Enough name-calling. Enough demonization of the opposition. Enough defining people out of the debate. We’ve had more than enough gloating these last few years. Gloating is easy. Empathy is hard. But empathy is Jewish: Hillel summed up the whole Torah as “what is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.” And empathy is…
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Opinion Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a true ‘tzadik,’ battled to the end. Now it’s on us.
Jewish tradition says this is the most auspicious time of year to die. The idea, as I understand it, is this: If God is deciding during the High Holy Days who shall live and who shall die over the next year — inscribing and then sealing us all in the imagined Book of Life and…
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Opinion Why An Independent Press Matters To American Jews
Editor’s Note: This High Holiday season we’re reflecting on our most meaningful stories of 5778, and their connection to core Jewish values. Over the past year, our journalism strengthened – and sometimes shook – the Jewish community. Here’s the first article of a series of eight we’ll be highlighting during these Days of Awe. More…
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Opinion Black Friday And The American Shabbat
Thanksgiving and Black Friday come every year, in good economic times and bad. Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner explained in 2011 why Americans should not be cajoled into working on a day that’s supposed to be all about family. Macy’s flagship store in New York’s Herald Square and the more than 800 branches around the country…
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Books Forverts Editorial: What’s Our Agenda?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. As editor of the Forverts, most of the questions I get from readers involve either the price of an obituary or a request to decipher a handwritten postcard written by a deceased relative. Recently, though, I got an email with a very different sort of question: “I’d…
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Opinion Trump’s double standard for New York and Las Vegas attacks threatens America’s safety
How can you truly measure the horror of a terror attack? You can’t. One life lost that way is one life too many. But not for Donald Trump. When a man murders eight people and injures almost a dozen others in Manhattan, and then shouts “God is great!” in Arabic, the president waited only hours…
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Opinion The New York Times Just Explained Why The Forward Matters So Much
It’s rare for journalists to be the subject of a news story. We’re usually the ones asking the questions, framing the narrative, finding the edge, telling it our way. So it was with excitement but some trepidation last night that I began to read the online version of a New York Times story about The…
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