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A time to sob, and to dance: Why does the joy of the hostage release feel so painful? (Oct 16, 2025 08:20 PM - Forward.com – All)For 737 days, the people of Israel — and Jews around the world — hoped and prayed for the moments of bliss we witnessed on Monday, as the last living hostages returned from Gaza and reunited with their families and their nation. For just over two years, many of us found that the joys of life... The post A time to sob, and to dance: Why does the joy of the hostage release feel so painful? appeared first on The Forward .
Think the left is politically violent? Young Republicans have a wake-up call for you (Oct 16, 2025 07:56 PM - Forward.com – All)
“I love Hitler,” one individual wrote, in leaked texts from a Young Republicans group chat that Politico reported on earlier this week. Over the course of several months earlier this year, the chat’s participants talked about sending those who worked against them in their quest for political power to gas chambers. One person, referring to... The post Think the left is politically violent? Young Republicans have a wake-up call for you appeared first on The Forward .
Oklahoma made Bibles mandatory in schools. The new superintendent is reversing course. (Oct 16, 2025 07:46 PM - Forward.com – All)
Oklahoma public schools will no longer require Bibles in classrooms or use a biblical curriculum, state superintendent Lindel Fields announced Thursday. Fields’ predecessor, Ryan Walters, resigned last month following repeated controversy over his focus on culture war issues and accusations that his office television screened explicit images during a meeting with education officials. Walters had made... The post Oklahoma made Bibles mandatory in schools. The new superintendent is reversing course. appeared first on The Forward .
Exhibit: How the horror of the Holocaust impacted American artists (Oct 16, 2025 05:48 PM - Forward.com – All)
דאָס איז איינער פֿון אַ סעריע קורצע אַרטיקלען אָנגעשריבן אױף אַ רעלאַטיװ גרינגן ייִדיש און געצילעװעט אױף סטודענטן. די מחברטע איז אַלײן אַ ייִדיש־סטודענטקע. דאָ קען מען לײענען די פֿריִערדיקע אַרטיקלען אין דער סעריע. אַ נײַע אױסשטעלונג אינעם עסקענאַזי קונסט־מוזײ אין אינדיאַנער אוניװערסיטעט באַװײַזט װי אַזױ אַמעריקאַנער קינסטלער האָבן רעאַגירט אױפֿן גרויל פֿונעם חורבן. ס׳רובֿ... The post Exhibit: How the horror of the Holocaust impacted American artists appeared first on The Forward .
The new Anne Frank musical wants you to laugh at ‘woke culture’ — but is it funny? (Oct 16, 2025 05:32 PM - Forward.com – All)
Reactions to Slam Frank, Andrew Fox’s musical satire in which Anne Frank is rewritten as a Latinx pansexual girl named “Anita,” have been mixed. Some have called it a timely, comedic takedown of cultural hypersensitivity while others see it as a shonda to the memories of Holocaust victims. In interviews, Fox has refused to break... The post The new Anne Frank musical wants you to laugh at ‘woke culture’ — but is it funny? appeared first on The Forward .
How a Jewish schoolteacher from New Jersey made it to Hollywood and Broadway at the same time (Oct 16, 2025 04:52 PM - Forward.com – All)
Robert Kaplow, a retired high school English teacher, has been publishing a monthly newsletter in Metuchen, a small New Jersey town a few miles southwest of Menlo Park, where Thomas Edison set up his laboratory. Kaplow can’t match Edison’s thousand plus patents but the 71-year-old writer has had an impressive creative output. Over the years,... The post How a Jewish schoolteacher from New Jersey made it to Hollywood and Broadway at the same time appeared first on The Forward .
A glimpse of the Jewish left in 1920s Palestine (Oct 16, 2025 03:05 PM - Forward.com – All)
Boom and Chains by Hanan Ayalti, translated by Adi Mahalel Wayne State University Press, 312 pages, $34.99 Boom and Chains, by the Yiddish writer Hanan Ayalti, is a sweeping, morally urgent novel of Mandate-era Palestine that marries socialist ambition, Zionist dreams and the lived terrain of Arab dispossession. First serialized in Warsaw in 1940... The post A glimpse of the Jewish left in 1920s Palestine appeared first on The Forward .
2 more deceased hostages, including only woman, returned to Israel as Hamas says it has freed all it can (Oct 16, 2025 11:10 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Hamas returned the bodies of two more hostages late Wednesday and said it had released all of the remains it is able to access, leaving 19 people unaccounted for. The two hostages returned Wednesday, DNA analysis showed, were Muhammad Al-Atarash and Inbar Hayman. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum announced in December 2023... The post 2 more deceased hostages, including only woman, returned to Israel as Hamas says it has freed all it can appeared first on The Forward .
Simchat Torah in Hostages Square lays bare divide over just how much to celebrate yet (Oct 16, 2025 11:08 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Rabba Anat Sharbat, the unofficial “rabbi of Hostages Square,” wept as she recited the Shehechiyanu blessing after lighting the candles to mark the beginning of Simchat Torah holiday on Monday evening, hours after all 20 living hostages returned to Israel. Two years before, the same holiday had been marked by silence and fear... The post Simchat Torah in Hostages Square lays bare divide over just how much to celebrate yet appeared first on The Forward .
War strained the Israel-Vatican bond. Will the pope use the ceasefire to heal those wounds? (Oct 15, 2025 07:43 PM - Forward.com – All)
As the ceasefire took hold this weekend, Pope Leo XIV called it “a spark of hope in the Holy Land.” To understand the new pope’s approach to Israel, after he came into his role at a time of unusually strained relations between the Vatican and Israel, a bit of history helps. The Catholic narrative when... The post War strained the Israel-Vatican bond. Will the pope use the ceasefire to heal those wounds? appeared first on The Forward .
‘It never goes away’: A former hostage describes the paradox of freedom for Israelis who returned home from Gaza (Oct 15, 2025 07:00 PM - Forward.com – All)
Barry Rosen knows what it means to wait for freedom. He spent 444 days as a hostage, one of 52 Americans held prisoner at the U.S. embassy in Iran from 1979 to 1981. He described when he was reunited with his family as “one of the greatest moments” of his life. But Rosen also knows... The post ‘It never goes away’: A former hostage describes the paradox of freedom for Israelis who returned home from Gaza appeared first on The Forward .
War battered their Berlin hummus bar. But the Israeli-Palestinian partners behind Kanaan see a way forward. (Oct 15, 2025 06:40 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — BERLIN — At a hummus restaurant in Berlin’s leafy neighborhood of Prenzlauer Berg, war has come knocking many times over the last two years. Recently, it came with the threat of closure. Jalil Dabit, a Palestinian, and Oz Ben David, an Israeli, have run the business together for 10 years. The last two... The post War battered their Berlin hummus bar. But the Israeli-Palestinian partners behind Kanaan see a way forward. appeared first on The Forward .
Why is everyone laughing at Anne Frank? (Oct 15, 2025 06:31 PM - Forward.com – All)
It’s hard to explain exactly what Slam Frank is. It’s a musical about Anne Frank in the hip-hop style of Lin-Manuel Miranda, but also with a touch of Bob Fosse. Anne is Latina and queer; her mother, Edith, is Black. This is not race-blind casting. It’s very much on purpose, a way to leverage Anne... The post Why is everyone laughing at Anne Frank? appeared first on The Forward .
How a complete unknown created one of the most iconic music events of the 1970’s (Oct 15, 2025 02:00 PM - Forward.com – All)
“I’ve always been a stranger,” Ido Fluk told me when I met him in a near-empty conference room in a sleek, Nordic-designed hotel in Berlin this past February. It was the afternoon after the Berlin Film Festival’s world premiere of the Israeli director’s German-language film, Köln 75, a kinetic behind-the-scenes look at Keith Jarrett’s famous... The post How a complete unknown created one of the most iconic music events of the 1970’s appeared first on The Forward .
3 more hostages’ remains returned as Hamas reasserts control in Gaza, potentially threatening truce (Oct 15, 2025 01:53 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Israel has identified the remains of three more hostages following a second release by Hamas on Tuesday, bringing the number of deceased hostages in Gaza to 21. But even as the conditions of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement were still being met, both President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin... The post 3 more hostages’ remains returned as Hamas reasserts control in Gaza, potentially threatening truce appeared first on The Forward .
Hamas reasserts control in Gaza, potentially threatening truce (Oct 15, 2025 01:53 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Israel has identified the remains of three more hostages following a second release by Hamas on Tuesday, bringing the number of deceased hostages in Gaza to 21. But even as the conditions of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement were still being met, both President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin... The post Hamas reasserts control in Gaza, potentially threatening truce appeared first on The Forward .
How phase one of the Gaza peace plan is beginning to fray (Oct 14, 2025 08:28 PM - Forward.com – All)
President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan – which was reinforced in principle during a “peace summit” on Monday with the presidents of Egypt and Turkey, and the Emir of Qatar – is long on intention and short on details. Aaron David Miller, who advised six secretaries of state on Arab-Israeli negotiations under both Republican and... The post How phase one of the Gaza peace plan is beginning to fray appeared first on The Forward .
Trump drew Arab leaders into a historic peace agreement. Too bad about the one glaring caveat (Oct 14, 2025 08:19 PM - Forward.com – All)
It was impressive, no question about that: A sitting American president, flanked by the heads of Egypt, Turkey and Qatar — among dozens of other countries — signing a document that contains all the right words and sentiments needed for achieving Middle East peace. But Tuesday’s display in the Egyptian city of Sharm el-Sheikh may be... The post Trump drew Arab leaders into a historic peace agreement. Too bad about the one glaring caveat appeared first on The Forward .
‘They’re fed up’: Post-ceasefire, Israel faces an enormous political reckoning (Oct 14, 2025 07:29 PM - Forward.com – All)
My brother-in-law, David Levy, didn’t sleep much the night before the release of the last living hostages. That day, he stayed glued to the family TV — along with what seemed like the entire country. “You could just see the injection of spirit this has given to Israel,” he said. “I finally get why Judaism... The post ‘They’re fed up’: Post-ceasefire, Israel faces an enormous political reckoning appeared first on The Forward .
With hostages home, the filmmaker behind ‘Torn’ says his documentary about NYC’s poster wars remains sadly relevant (Oct 14, 2025 03:55 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — What caught Nim Shapira’s eye when videos of New Yorkers tearing down posters of Israeli hostages began circulating in October 2023 wasn’t just the stark affront. It was also the poles the posters had been attached to. “I recognized every corner,” he said. “This was my neighborhood.” The filmmaker had never before turned... The post With hostages home, the filmmaker behind ‘Torn’ says his documentary about NYC’s poster wars remains sadly relevant appeared first on The Forward .
Meet the 83-year-old Jewish activist who stars in Zohran Mamdani’s campaign ads (Oct 14, 2025 03:33 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — When Zohran Mamdani’s first TV ad of the general election went live last week, the first person viewers saw was an 83-year-old Jewish woman from the Upper West Side. Rosalind Petchesky, a retired political scientist and progressive activist, has become a recurring star of Mamdani’s social media video campaign, which is widely seen... The post Meet the 83-year-old Jewish activist who stars in Zohran Mamdani’s campaign ads appeared first on The Forward .
Project Esther created a blueprint for Trump to fight antisemitism. The ‘Shofar Report’ is a liberal response. (Oct 14, 2025 02:25 PM - Forward.com – All)
Most American Jews have taken a dim view of the Trump administration’s approach to fighting antisemitism, saying his policies are disingenuous and prone to exacerbate the problem rather than solve it. But beyond rejecting the crackdown on universities, liberal Jews have lacked a singular blueprint for fighting antisemitism akin to what the conservative Heritage Foundation... The post Project Esther created a blueprint for Trump to fight antisemitism. The ‘Shofar Report’ is a liberal response. appeared first on The Forward .
The Trump administration is targeting Jewish organizations — what are we prepared to do? (Oct 14, 2025 01:50 PM - Forward.com – All)
Kol Yisrael Areivim Zeh La’Zeh, goes the aphorism: All Jews are responsible for one another. Well, now we’re about to find out if it’s true. Even as American Jews celebrate the long-yearned-for release of Israeli hostages, some in our community are being threatened by the Trump administration, which has promised to investigate and prosecute nine... The post The Trump administration is targeting Jewish organizations — what are we prepared to do? appeared first on The Forward .
Hamas releases remains of just 4 deceased hostages, leaving 24 still unaccounted for (Oct 14, 2025 11:22 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Hours after freeing 20 living hostages to a jubilant Israel, Hamas released the remains of four deceased hostages — far fewer than the 28 it is holding and obligated under the terms of the ceasefire to release. The group had already indicated that it was not prepared to release all of the deceased... The post Hamas releases remains of just 4 deceased hostages, leaving 24 still unaccounted for appeared first on The Forward .
Why there are new laws shaping how schools teach about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Oct 14, 2025 10:42 AM - Forward.com – All)
Teachers, parents and schools have long debated what students should learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But lesson plans have typically been discussed in PTA gatherings, faculty meetings, and curriculum committees — not determined by legislation. That’s changing, as new laws around the country seek to regulate how narratives about the conflict are taught. The measures... The post Why there are new laws shaping how schools teach about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appeared first on The Forward .
How new laws are shaping what schools teach about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Oct 14, 2025 10:42 AM - Forward.com – All)
Teachers, parents and schools have long debated what students should learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But lesson plans have typically been discussed in PTA gatherings, faculty meetings, and curriculum committees — not determined by legislation. That’s changing, as new laws around the country seek to regulate how narratives about the conflict are taught. The measures... The post How new laws are shaping what schools teach about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict appeared first on The Forward .
Kamala Harris on whether Israel committed genocide: ‘We should all step back and ask this question’ (Oct 14, 2025 10:10 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris held back from labeling Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide” on Sunday but said it was an appropriate question. “A lot of folks in your party have called what’s happening in Gaza a genocide. Do you agree with that?” correspondent Eugene Daniels asked Harris during an interview on... The post Kamala Harris on whether Israel committed genocide: ‘We should all step back and ask this question’ appeared first on The Forward .
Jews let go of hostage rituals with gratitude and grief (Oct 14, 2025 10:00 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Like most synagogues, Congregation Beth El in South Orange, New Jersey added new rituals after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks that killed 1,200 in Israel, saw another 251 taken hostage and launched a grinding war between Israel and Hamas. The Conservative congregation hung a “bring them home now” sign out front on behalf... The post Jews let go of hostage rituals with gratitude and grief appeared first on The Forward .
Iran, Abraham Accords and Bibi’s trial: What Trump said in his historic Knesset speech (Oct 14, 2025 09:52 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — As the last of the Israeli hostages were released from Gaza, President Donald Trump addressed the country’s parliament — and was given a hero’s welcome. Trump’s speech to the Knesset on Monday offered effusive praise for the state of Israel, warm — but not unguarded — praise for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and... The post Iran, Abraham Accords and Bibi’s trial: What Trump said in his historic Knesset speech appeared first on The Forward .
How Yiddish authors made a new world writing for children (Oct 13, 2025 04:23 PM - Forward.com – All)
An intrepid puppy who marches for labor rights. A 6-year-old girl who sews herself a locomotive to carry her away from her daily chores. A Jewish boy who would be Pope. These stories, written in Yiddish, are all entertaining and whimsical, and like so much writing for young people, may be seen as less than... The post How Yiddish authors made a new world writing for children appeared first on The Forward .
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