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On a weekday afternoon in a community centre, the loudest table in the room is usually the Mah Jongg game, with the scoring done in pencil...
(JTA) — It only took 25 minutes of play for the Irish national soccer team to build a 3-0 lead over Israel in the countries’ UEFA...
(JTA) — Progressive Jewish Texas state Sen. Jon Rosenthal has earned an unusual distinction: He is the first Democrat to win the vote of GOP guru...
(JTA) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has signed a law that will create protective spaces around religious institutions, after a pro-Palestinian protest at a...
I first learned about Sir Frank Lowy at the Australian Museum in Sydney. Alongside an opalized plesiosaur skeleton and a 19th-century rug made of 75 platypus...
The City Without Jews: Life and Death in Nazi Vienna By Douglas Smith FSG, 560 pages, $37 Several years ago, the historian Douglas Smith, who has...
It was, I think, some small measure of divine consolation that the most dispersed minority on the planet got a little game to bring us back...
(JTA) — President Isaac Herzog called leaders of Jerusalem’s Kol HaNeshama Reform congregation on the eve of the Sukkot holiday to express solidarity following a string...
(JTA) — J Street, the Jewish advocacy group that calls itself pro-Israel and pro-peace, has sought a seat at the Jewish establishment table since its inception...
On Oct. 7, Israelis will come together to commemorate the third anniversary of the Hamas attack. Three weeks later, they will gather again, this time at...
(JTA) — A decision to bar the “stumbling stone” memorials to victims of the Nazis has touched a nerve in one small German town, and beyond....
By BERNIE BELLAN This story was originally posted August 14, but with the date of the court battle soon approaching we thought it timely to repost...
By Rachel Shteir September 22, 2026 This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your...
It is with profound sadness that we announce the tragic and unexpected passing of Aarona Perlov (nee Weinberg) on September 25, 2026, at 76 years of...
(JTA) — Even a powerful Nor’easter couldn’t stop the crowds from showing up at the North American premiere of the controversial Israeli documentary “NAZA” on Saturday...
By BERNIE BELLAN In May 2023 I wrote a story about Joan Druxman, whom I had just met in person when she was a guest speaker...
By MYRON LOVE Anyone who has been to a sporting event in recent years is sure to be familiar with the hot dog and t-shirt launchers...
By MYRON LOVE On Wednesday, October 7, we will be commemorating the third anniversary of the horrific events of October 7, 2023 – when an estimated...
By MYRON LOVE Last November, our provincial government announced a mandatory Holocaust education curriculum for all Grade 6, Grade 9 and Grade 11 Social Studies students...
Roll the Calls: A Memoir By Ari Emanuel Knopf, 432 pages, $35 It must be exhausting to be super-agent Ari Emanuel: rising before dawn for a...