The Forward2hOpinion
I’m a Jew of color. Ta-Nehisi Coates can’t apply U.S. lessons to Israel
Ta-Nehisi Coates is trying to apply an American paradigm to Israel. The history of oppression in the Holy Land is too complex ...
The Forward4h
Sandy Koufax famously didn’t pitch on Yom Kippur in 1965. But did he go to synagogue?
Schloff, who was 17 years old at the time and a senior in high school, lived around 45 minutes away from Temple of Aaron ...
The Forward3h
‘All options are on the table’ to keep Iran from going nuclear, Kamala Harris says in High Holiday call with Jewish voters
The phrase is understood as encompassing potential military action. Harris made the remark in a High Holiday call with Jewish ...
The Forward4h
This support group for Israeli expats in New York offers Hebrew and hugs
One year into its existence, the Israeli Hug Center has evolved into a full-fledged organization with three staffers.
The Forward4hOpinion
Forgiveness has its limits: a Yom Kippur reflection on justice
This Yom Kippur, I am wrestling with what Jewish and other ancient texts have to say about forgiveness and justice.
The Forward4hOpinion
Atoning during a war feels impossible. Instead, resolve to do better
Yom Kippur offers a chance to start anew, when you can't shake off the weight of what's past what does atonement look like?
The Forward5hOpinion
If you’re a Jew who has turned your back on Israel, Yom Kippur is the time to return
If you wear a tallit and tefillin, and blow shofar and keep kosher, but use your Judaism to undermine the right of the seven ...
The Forward6h
‘A Sukkah on the Argentine grasslands’ (short story)
A farmer describes what Sukkos was like for his family when they immigrated from Russia and didn’t even have a house yet.
The Forward5h
What’s up with the swastikas and Nazi imagery in ‘Megalopolis?’
Francis Ford Coppola's epic is not the first movie to make use of Nazi imagery to score political points; it's not the best ...
The Forward6h
How about we make the next season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ a little less antisemitic?
Apparently everybody wanted Netflix’s hot rabbi rom-com Nobody Wants This; the show has already been watched by millions and ...
The Forward20hOpinion
On Yom Kippur, my brother-in-law is still a hostage. How do I atone for that?
Jews must atone for the fact that the Israeli hostages are still in Hamas captivity on Yom Kippur, a year after Oct. 7.
The Forward20h
Ta-Nehisi Coates says Harris funding Gaza war as first Black female president would be ‘nightmare’
Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose new book compares life for Palestinians to the experience of Black Americans under Jim Crow, said ...