In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward Digital Features Editor Abigail Jones to discuss our crowdsourced list of 36 inspirational rabbis. Then, Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman calls in to fill us in on President Obama’s trip to Israel. Finally, Josh talks Philip Roth and Newark with Nate Lavey,…
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward reporter Seth Berkman and Forward contributor Anne Cohen to discuss their story about Jewish day schools that are struggling to provide special ed. Then, Forward reporter Paul Berger drops by to discuss the rise of gluten-free products and their curious connection with…
A Rosh Hodesh service was held on Tuesday, March 12, at the Town & Village Synagogue on East 14th Street in New York. The minyan was one of a number of U.S. events in support of the Israeli group Women of the Wall, which advocates for the right of women to pray at the Western…
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward reporter Paul Berger to discuss New York may ease restrictions on lawsuits stemming from decades-old cases of child sex abuse and, if the law passes, how it might bring justice for victims at Yeshiva University. Then, Forward Washington correspondent Nathan Guttman reports…
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward editor Jane Eisner to discuss why it’s the Forward is reporting on abuse allegations at Yeshiva University, even though the reported abuse occurred decades ago. Then, Forward reporter Paul Berger reports that one of the alleged Y.U. abusers continued to act inappropriately,…
Ben Schrank and author and frequent Forward contributor Joshua Furst met up at The Brooklyn Inn with the intention of drinking some beer and discussing fiction, Brooklyn and their complicated relationships with Jewishness. Schrank recently published his wise, big-hearted new novel, “Love Is a Canoe.” Since much of the story revolves around publishing and the…
Shortly after being sworn in for his first term in January, Lakewood’s mayor, Albert Akerman, visited “Tent City,” an encampment of about 100 homeless people living in a densely wooded area of township land — a rare slice of open space in the fastest-growing municipality in New Jersey. Akerman, an Orthodox Jew originally from the…
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Forward fellow Seth Berkman to discuss his story about a tent city in Lakewood, New Jersey a town with a large, dominant Orthodox community. Then, Naomi Zeveloff drops by to discuss her story about a professor whose professional relationship with a student devolved…
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