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Opinion An honest conversation about JFREJ
The ADL recently accused the Jewish progressive group of being "out of touch" with mainstream Jewish values
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Opinion What one hotly watched Manhattan race tells us about New York’s Jewish voters
If supporting Israel has become a wedge issue, NY-12's Democratic candidates seem not to have gotten the memo
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Opinion WATCH: What do New Yorkers think about the Nadler/Maloney primary faceoff?
Our intrepid reporters paid a visit to Zabar's and Eli's Market to find out what residents think about the race for the new 12th District
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Looking Forward ‘The people’s temple,’ where condos now sell for $2 million
For the Forward’s 125th anniversary, our editor went on a pilgrimage to the newspaper’s landmarked headquarters on the Lower East Side
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Culture In Satmar Williamsburg, even the Legos wear yarmulkes
Frieda Vizel left the Satmar world at 25 — but she still visits twice a week to give tours of Hasidic Williamsburg
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Culture Who serves the best kosher pizza in NYC? We found out
We regret to inform you that at least one Ashkenazi digestive tract was harmed during this investigation
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Culture He wrote a beloved prayer book. But his gravestone misspelled his name.
Philip Birnbaum, who died in 1988, was a man careful with language, yet a stone of eight words had three errors
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News De Blasio quits crowded race for Congress in heavily Jewish district
‘People are looking for another option,’ former New York mayor said hours after meeting with Orthodox leaders in Borough Park
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Film & TV How Leonard Cohen — and a Yom Kippur prayer — inspired a coming-of-age epic
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Opinion A year after Oct. 7, Israel has the chance to remake its future — for better or worse
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Opinion Campus protests defined the year since Oct. 7. Could they actually change U.S. policy?
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Special Report At the kibbutz hit hardest on Oct. 7, a wrenching debate over how to rebuild
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