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Perya games often attract a crowd for a reason. Standing near a booth during a fiesta lets you track the...
(Ed. note: If you haven’t read Part 1 of “The Red Inheritance,” you can find it here: The Red Inheritance.)...
On a weekday afternoon in a community centre, the loudest table in the room is usually the Mah Jongg game,...
By Rachel Shteir September 22, 2026 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s...
By BERNIE BELLAN In May 2023 I wrote a story about Joan Druxman, whom I had just met in person...
By DAVID TOPPER When my late wife, Sylvia, and I moved into the house I’m still in, we brought with...
By HENRY SREBRNIK As we enter the fourth year of the “October 7” wars, things in Eastern Europe remain dire. There...
By H.C. PiloskiPART I — ROOTSForewordThe Red Inheritance is a work of fiction built on real histories. The political movements,...
An NBA defender who meets a ball handler near the opposite baseline is trying to interfere with the possession before...
By PJ Grisar September 8, 2026 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s...
By JOANNE PALMER (reprinted with permission from the New Jersey Jewish News and the Jewish Standard) If every person is...
A reader wrote in last month asking a simple question: is it legal to play online casino games in Manitoba,...
By ELENA KNIGHT Rosh Chodesh Sameach! This month, Tishrei, is a time of beginnings; we observe Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur,...
By DAVID TOPPER This story of the sad and short life of a remarkable woman, Clara Haber, should be better...
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For more than a century, a slot machine was easy to recognize. Three reels. A lever. A row of fruit,...
By BERNIE BELLAN The confluence of money and corrupt politicians is something we read about all the time. It’s never...
By BERNIE BELLAN Often the most interesting story ideas come in the oddest of circumstances.Such was the case recently when...
Roulette side panels enhance the table experience by visually highlighting number sequences that mirror the wheel. Many fans consult Crazytower Casino guides...
By BERNIE BELLAN (This story was originally posted July 14) From time to time we receive a request to do...
(JTA) — Naomi Ragen, the New York-born Israeli novelist and playwright known for her portrayals of Orthodox Jewish women in crisis, says the cancellation of a...
Nearly two-thirds of Jewish voters in New York City disapprove of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s handling of antisemitism, according to a new poll released on the third...
(JTA) — ”They tried to kill us. We survived. Let’s eat.” Alan King’s joke about Jewish holidays gets to the essence of Jewish persistence in the...
(JTA) — SDEROT, Israel – Shalom Aida was at home when the first air raid siren sounded at 6:29 a.m. on October 7, 2023, but he...
(JTA) — Troy Jackson, Maine’s Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate, said he opposed “giving a blank check” to Israel at a debate on Tuesday, while...
A religion professor named by Jewish Haverford College students in a recently settled lawsuit against the school was arrested Tuesday after authorities say he used anonymous...
A raft of pro-Palestinian and democratic socialist groups will protest against New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the three-year anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks,...
(JTA) — Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly this year came at a critical time for Israel. Talks were underway to resolve the...
(JTA) — The first time most of the world heard Hannah Gann’s name was in late September, when the 34-year-old Philadelphia high school teacher and activist...
(JTA) — The head of the Jewish Greens said she may leave the Green Party of England and Wales after it adopted a policy that defines...
There are three of them onstage. Arielle Rosales, a Mexican Puerto-Rican Jew from the Lower East Side, is dancing flamenco. Amanda Castro, a Brooklyn-born Puerto-Rican from...
Tidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and...
After accusations of discrimination led his San Francisco Tech Week event to be pulled from the schedule, a tech worker has decided to embrace his newfound...
(JTA) — In 2015, while visiting Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, James Beard Award-winning chef Alon Shaya came face-to-face with a World War II artifact that...
(JTA) — Israel and Ireland’s UEFA Nations League rematch on Sunday ratcheted up tensions between the two teams, in a sports drama where emotions over the...
Jim Bakker convinced me to go to church. Bakker died Monday at 86. For a stretch in the 1980s he and his wife, Tammy Faye, were...
When Israel’s Supreme Court upheld the right of Arab parties last week to run in the country’s Oct. 27 election, they didn’t only provide Israel’s 2...
(JTA) — TEL AVIV – In the days following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, the families of the hostages held in Gaza turned the plaza...
(JTA) — Police in the Ontario town where a gunman charged the Sons of Jacob synagogue on Yom Kippur are investigating antisemitic flyers distributed around the...
(JTA) — JERUSALEM – A young girl steps out of the bathroom on a flight and glimpses a bloody scene unfolding in the cockpit: the co-pilot...
When Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled a new U.S. passport design last week, online sleuths zeroed in on a curious detail: “Is that the star...
The police were still there when neighbors arrived to clean up the Philadelphia playground where vandals had struck. They had come to a playground in Abington...
In today’s Germany, an accusation of antisemitism can end careers, shutter institutions and put political alliances beyond consideration. That gravity is understandable in the country responsible...
When my father Norm Gordon was six years old, the Jewish Federation of Cleveland helped rescue him. Recent immigrants from Poland, his parents were already living...
