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Opinion This election summed up in 2 numbers — and your weekend reads
This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here to download and print a PDF of Your Weekend Reads. Who knew democracy would require this much math? As the hours tick down…
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Opinion What Saeb Erekat taught me about the peace process
Editor’s note: Saeb Erekat died on Nov. 10, 2020, after contracting Covid-19. This article was originally published while he was in the hospital, on Oct. 23. This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox….
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Opinion What smoked fish and Haredi Jews don’t have in common — and your weekend reads
This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox. And click here to download and print a PDF of Your Weekend Reads. Shortly after I first moved to New York City in 1998, my dad…
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Opinion On the first night of Sukkot, ‘rain feels very 2020’ — and your weekend reads
This is an adaptation of The Forward’s weekly Shabbat newsletter. To get the Forward’s free email newsletters in your inbox, click here. And click here for a PDF of the following stories that you can download and print to savor over the weekend. It was another surreal morning. Breakfast was tie-dye waffles with a side…
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Opinion We asked you to share your sins. Here’s what 127 readers said.
This is an article version of our weekly Shabbat newsletter. Click here to sign up to get the Forward’s free newsletters in your inbox. And click here to download and print a PDF of Forward stories to savor over the weekend. When I was in college, I never went home for Yom Kippur. I tried…
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Opinion ‘Let’s roll!’: The daughter of the Jewish hero of Flight 93 was in “Fiddler on the Roof”
This article is adapted from our weekly Shabbat newsletter, which is delivered on Friday afternoons. To get Forward newsletters delivered to your inbox, click here. When people ask where I was on 9/11, I always make sure to say also what I did on 9/12. Because I spent that awful Tuesday at Chelsea Piers, watching…
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Opinion A summer of service — and your weekend reads
This is an adapted version of our Shabbat newsletter. Sign up here to get future editions delivered to your inbox on Friday afternoons. This was the summer of canceled camp, thwarted travel, internships unwound. The pandemic left so many young people scrambling to fill their days. There were video games and backyard hangs. And there…
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Opinion For the sins we committed by publishing articles with typos….
This is an adaptation of our Shabbat Newsletter, which is sent Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the newsletter (and our daily emails) delivered to your inbox each week. It’s not just typos. A couple of months ago, I had to re-send a corrected version of our weekly Shabbat newsletter because I mistakenly lumped Teddy…
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