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While many Jews don’t celebrate Halloween, that doesn’t mean we don’t have our own share of spooky, scary skeletons scattered throughout our day. Most Jewish holidays can be sorted into two categories: 1. They tried to kill us. We won. Let’s eat.2. They tried to kill us. They did. Let’s fast. Thinking about ways to […]
(INTERVIEW) For the first time since 2009, the New York Yankees have made it to the World Series, where they will play an erstwhile favorite team of New York Jews, the Los Angeles Dodgers, formerly of Brooklyn. With the games set to start Friday in Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and get bicoastal with game […]
PITTSBURGH — Joel Ettinger, a retired health care executive, could have been relaxing at his second home in Florida, but instead spent an afternoon last week bundled in a winter jacket on the chilly concourse of the Pittsburgh Steelers stadium, doing crowd control at a rally for Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice […]
(ANALYSIS) One year ago, on the last day of the celebratory Feast of Sukkot (Tabernacles), the unthinkable happened, and a living hell was unleashed on the people of Israel. That was Oct. 7, 2023, a day that will live in infamy in the decades to come, a day that has still not ended for the […]
American Jews think Vice President Kamala Harris would handle the Israel-Hamas war better than former President Donald Trump by a wide margin — 54% to 36% — according to a new poll, but most also see Trump as more supportive of Israelis. The national poll, conducted for the Forward by CHIP50, an academic consortium of experts […]
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Modreck Maeresera is a happy man these days. Growing up in rural Zimbabwe, Maeresera, 49, was always told of his unique Jewish roots, which separated his Lemba community from the rest of their neighbors. Nonetheless, there was nothing tangible to make him feel any different. Without any physical distinction from their neighbors […]
(OPINION) According to an Oct. 9 article in The New York Times by Shane Goldmacher, “There may be seven main battlegrounds in the race for the White House in 2024, all of which could prove crucial. But Pennsylvania stands apart as the state that top strategists for both Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump have circled […]
To understand why Jews love the Mets so much requires a Talmudic understanding of New York City history, sports history and Jewish psychology. It’s about the DNA of baseball and Brooklyn in the 1950s; being called “amazin’” when you’re actually the worst team around, and disappointing fans so often that reveling in your losses becomes […]