Welcome to a special July 4th week edition of Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Greetings from Chautauqua, where I am spending a few glorious days as a guest speaker at the Everett Jewish Life Center. This is my first visit to…
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Two years ago, during the height of ferocious anti-Semitic trolling of Jewish journalists, including many at the Forward, I issued a Trumpatorium. For 24 hours, from 5 am June 21, 2016 to 5…
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! The Pew Research Center officially released its Portrait of Jewish Americans on Oct. 1, 2013 at a venue in Manhattan. Several of those responsible for the landmark survey spoke, followed by a panel…
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! I am an unabashed fan of 1950s musicals and movies. Growing up, the local New York television station — yes, such a thing existed — ran reruns every weekday afternoon, and that often…
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Their hair was mostly gray. Some had trouble walking. Their bodies reflected the passage of many years. Nonetheless, the gathering featuring about a dozen women at the American Jewish Historical Society last week…
Welcome to a special abbreviated edition of Jane Looking Forward. For those of you who celebrated, I hope you had a lovely and meaningful Shavuot. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! A man walks into a New York restaurant. He hears workers speaking Spanish. He…
Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! I’m still digesting the marvelous trip I took last week with my sister to visit our late mother’s hometown in England and learn more about her childhood. There are larger themes about British…
Ever since the news broke Thursday night, the Forward’s coverage of Natalie Portman’s decision not to accept the Genesis Prize in Jerusalem didn’t just hit a nerve. It lit up the whole body. Weekend traffic to our website was the highest in a year, with both news stories and opinion pieces attracting readers, while the…
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