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How a Jewish play from 1908 enshrined the idea of America as a cultural ‘melting pot’ (Oct 23, 2026 03:58 PM - Forward.com – All)It’s long been unfashionable to refer to the United States as a “melting pot.” Identity politics and multiculturalism have undermined the ideal of an assimilation so complete that it obliterates ethnic distinctions. Now the persistence of difference is hailed, at least in some quarters, as enriching rather than estranging, even if the associated metaphors —... The post How a Jewish play from 1908 enshrined the idea of America as a cultural ‘melting pot’ appeared first on The Forward .
‘I wanna blow up a synagogue’: Online posts lead to hate crime charge against Utah man (Oct 23, 2026 03:47 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — A Utah man accused of possessing explosive devices, searching online for nearby synagogues and making online threats to kill Jews is due in court Friday to face charges including attempting to commit a hate crime. A federal grand jury indicted Skyler AJ Rose, 22, on Wednesday, the Department of Justice said in a... The post ‘I wanna blow up a synagogue’: Online posts lead to hate crime charge against Utah man appeared first on The Forward .
Will this election end the battle over drafting Haredi men into the Israeli army? (Oct 23, 2026 12:16 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Whether to extend military conscription to haredi men, a longstanding question fueling political tensions in Israel, has boiled over since Hamas launched the current war with Israel with its deadly raids on Oct. 7, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli soldiers and reservists battled on Israel’s southern and northern fronts and the manpower... The post Will this election end the battle over drafting Haredi men into the Israeli army? appeared first on The Forward .
The discovery of a Jewish Negro League star forces a rewrite of Jewish baseball history (Oct 23, 2026 12:14 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — For more than a century, Oscar Levis was hiding in plain sight. He pitched a no-hitter and dominated the Cuban Winter League. He tallied five straight seasons without losing a game against one of the Northeast’s toughest white semiprofessional clubs. He was so dominant that W. Rollo Wilson, the preeminent Black sportswriter of... The post The discovery of a Jewish Negro League star forces a rewrite of Jewish baseball history appeared first on The Forward .
Why a new ultra-Orthodox party supports drafting Haredi men to the IDF (Oct 23, 2026 12:08 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — JERUSALEM – Yehoshua Pfeffer is a popular British-born haredi rabbi in Jerusalem. He is unusual among the religious leaders in the ultra-Orthodox world because he believes that haredim can and should integrate into and contribute more to the wider Israeli society even as they uphold their Torah observance. Arguably the most fraught implication... The post Why a new ultra-Orthodox party supports drafting Haredi men to the IDF appeared first on The Forward .
Two Israelis critically wounded by Palestinian gunfire in West Bank (Oct 23, 2026 11:16 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Two Israelis were critically wounded in a Palestinian shooting attack that lasted over 20 minutes next to a West Bank checkpoint on Route 35 just outside of Hebron early Friday morning. It occurred as the Israeli army was on alert for an increase in violence ahead of Tuesday’s Israeli elections. Three others were... The post Two Israelis critically wounded by Palestinian gunfire in West Bank appeared first on The Forward .
Two Israelis killed by Palestinian gunfire in West Bank (Oct 23, 2026 11:16 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a Palestinian shooting attack that lasted over 20 minutes next to a West Bank checkpoint on Route 35 just outside of Hebron early Friday morning, according to The New York Times. It occurred as the Israeli army was on alert for an increase in violence ahead of... The post Two Israelis killed by Palestinian gunfire in West Bank appeared first on The Forward .
IDF planning major West Bank campaign after 2 soldiers killed, Netanyahu says (Oct 23, 2026 11:16 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — The Israeli army is planning a large-scale military operation against Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after Palestinian gunmen killed two soldiers and wounded three others outside of Hebron on Friday morning. Netanyahu visited the site of the attack along with Defense Minister Israel Katz, pledging that the... The post IDF planning major West Bank campaign after 2 soldiers killed, Netanyahu says appeared first on The Forward .
Can Netanyahu win again? The secret to his political survival – and why it may finally fail him (Oct 23, 2026 10:07 AM - Forward.com – All)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was once dubbed “King Bibi” for his remarkable ability to win elections, starting with his surprise victory in 1996 at age 46. The number of political rivals who have risen and fallen during his decades in power is almost impossible to count. But with the Oct. 27 election just days... The post Can Netanyahu win again? The secret to his political survival – and why it may finally fail him appeared first on The Forward .
While AIPAC’s critics rejoice as lobby shifts strategy, its defenders push back (Oct 23, 2026 09:45 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — AIPAC’s critics gloated on Thursday after the pro-Israel lobby announced that it was ending direct contributions and candidate endorsements. But defenders of the storied Washington institution pushed back at that characterization, saying instead that the organization had made a smart course correction amid strong political headwinds stoked at least in part by antisemitism.... The post While AIPAC’s critics rejoice as lobby shifts strategy, its defenders push back appeared first on The Forward .
UK adopts sweeping measures against antisemitism in schools (Oct 23, 2026 02:59 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — The U.K. has adopted sweeping measures to combat antisemitism in English schools, prompting pushback from the country’s largest teachers’ union. The move came after a new government-commissioned review found that three in five Jewish students reported experiencing antisemitism in English schools. The most common incidents were jokes, stereotypes and comments about Jewish people.... The post UK adopts sweeping measures against antisemitism in schools appeared first on The Forward .
Orthodox Jewish man stabbed in midtown Manhattan (Oct 23, 2026 02:40 AM - Forward.com – All)
(New York Jewish Week) — An Orthodox Jewish man is in stable condition after being stabbed on Wednesday evening in the Diamond District of midtown Manhattan. Police are investigating the attack as a possible hate crime. Police told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident as a... The post Orthodox Jewish man stabbed in midtown Manhattan appeared first on The Forward .
VIDEO: A Hasid gives us a tour of Morocco in Yiddish (Oct 22, 2026 08:44 PM - Forward.com – All)
דער ירושלימער יוטוב־שטערן וועלוול קירשנבוים האָט לעצטנס אַרויסגעשטעלט אַ ווידעאָ אויף ייִדיש פֿון אַ פּרעכטיקן וויזיט, וואָס ער האָט געמאַכט אין מאַראָקאָ. עס באַגלייט אים זײַן חבֿר אַבֿרהם פּרץ. אינעם ווידעאָ זעט מען ווי קירשנבוים דאַוונט שחרית מיט די אָרטיקע ייִדן און באַזוכט אַ גוט אָפּגעהיטענעם בית־עולם, וווּ עס ליגן באַערדיקט גרויסע צדיקים ווי למשל... The post VIDEO: A Hasid gives us a tour of Morocco in Yiddish appeared first on The Forward .
Conservative and Christian movies are coming for Hollywood (Oct 22, 2026 08:15 PM - Forward.com – All)
A star-studded new movie set in a Soviet prison is coming out in November. James Franco and Rob Lowe anchor the cast of Confession, playing a brutal prison guard and an imprisoned dissident professor, and a disheveled Nick Nolte appears as a fellow prisoner. These actors were once huge gets, and their names could convey... The post Conservative and Christian movies are coming for Hollywood appeared first on The Forward .
‘Heil’ mary? New Atlanta Falcons logo inspires Nazi comparisons (Oct 22, 2026 07:11 PM - Forward.com – All)
If there was something off about the logo the Atlanta Falcons unveiled on social media Wednesday, whoever runs their accounts did, uh, not see it. Behind the black falcon graphic that began appearing on the football team’s helmets in the 1960s was a new background — a flag of red, tan, black and white vertical... The post ‘Heil’ mary? New Atlanta Falcons logo inspires Nazi comparisons appeared first on The Forward .
‘Heil’ Mary? New Atlanta Falcons logo inspires Nazi comparisons (Oct 22, 2026 07:11 PM - Forward.com – All)
If there was something off about the logo the Atlanta Falcons unveiled on social media Wednesday, whoever runs their accounts did, uh, not see it. Behind the black falcon graphic that began appearing on the football team’s helmets in the 1960s was a new background — a flag of red, tan, black and white vertical... The post ‘Heil’ Mary? New Atlanta Falcons logo inspires Nazi comparisons appeared first on The Forward .
Netanyahu’s Torah exemption pledge highlights election stakes (Oct 22, 2026 05:49 PM - Forward.com – All)
Sometimes a statement can contain multitudes, or at least provide a crystallizing moment in an election campaign. So it was when Benjamin Netanyahu, while criticizing the detention of about 40 Haredi draft evaders by military police at Ben-Gurion Airport this week, declared in a radio interview: “We need to protect the world of the Torah... The post Netanyahu’s Torah exemption pledge highlights election stakes appeared first on The Forward .
Netanyahu’s Torah exemption pledge highlights election stakes (Oct 22, 2026 05:49 PM - Forward.com – All)
Sometimes a statement can contain multitudes, or at least provide a crystallizing moment in an election campaign. So it was when Benjamin Netanyahu, while criticizing the detention of about 40 Haredi draft evaders by military police at Ben-Gurion Airport this week, declared in a radio interview: “We need to protect the world of the Torah... The post Netanyahu’s Torah exemption pledge highlights election stakes appeared first on The Forward .
Tidbits: A publishing firm for Jewish writers excluded by mainstream publishers (Oct 22, 2026 03:32 PM - Forward.com – All)
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 don’t know a word, just click on it and the translation appears. Listen to the report here: אין ניו־יאָרק איז די וואָך געגרינדט געוואָרן אַ פֿאַרלאַג פֿאַר ייִדישע און... The post Tidbits: A publishing firm for Jewish writers excluded by mainstream publishers appeared first on The Forward .
In ‘Fatherland,’ Thomas Mann finds a Germany divided (Oct 22, 2026 02:00 PM - Forward.com – All)
Speaking at the Library of Congress, just before the end of World War II, Thomas Mann insisted “that there are not two Germanies, a bad and a good one, but only one whose best qualities were perverted by devilish cunning into evil.” Two years later, in 1947, he would publish Doctor Faustus, a meditation on... The post In ‘Fatherland,’ Thomas Mann finds a Germany divided appeared first on The Forward .
This deli serves ham and calls itself Jewish. New Jersey says it’s not kosher. (Oct 22, 2026 09:58 AM - Forward.com – All)
The Kibitz Room in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia, serves shrimp salad. It also has a ham sandwich, and its doors are open on Saturdays. So the people who run it were surprised this month when a state investigator walked in carrying a notice saying a deli with a “Jewish cheesesteak” on... The post This deli serves ham and calls itself Jewish. New Jersey says it’s not kosher. appeared first on The Forward .
AIPAC to halt direct campaign contributions and candidate endorsements (Oct 22, 2026 08:56 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — The American Israel Political Affairs Committee has announced that it will no longer make direct campaign contributions or endorse candidates, instead focusing on mobilizing individual donors. The pro-Israel lobby disclosed the change in a letter to its members on Wednesday, as first reported by Jewish Insider. The letter stated that the lobby would... The post AIPAC to halt direct campaign contributions and candidate endorsements appeared first on The Forward .
The missing ‘peace’ in Israel’s election campaign (Oct 22, 2026 08:54 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — JERUSALEM – There’s a short video clip that’s been circulating on Israeli social media channels in recent days showing a massive crowd of jubilant young Israelis at a music festival singing along on repeat to “The Song of Peace.” The scene, using an anthem forever associated with assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and... The post The missing ‘peace’ in Israel’s election campaign appeared first on The Forward .
In final Michigan Senate debate, Rogers says Jewish Democrats ‘afraid’ of El-Sayed (Oct 22, 2026 08:51 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers of Michigan said during the race’s final televised debate Wednesday that some “Jewish Democrats” are “literally afraid” of his opponent, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed,. “We’re doing exceptionally well with Jewish Democrats who are literally afraid,” the former congressman said during the Detroit debate, which was hosted by local... The post In final Michigan Senate debate, Rogers says Jewish Democrats ‘afraid’ of El-Sayed appeared first on The Forward .
Pitt officials say some Jewish students were interviewed for campus antisemitism report (Oct 22, 2026 08:48 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — A spokesman for the University of Pittsburgh now says the school’s campus antisemitism working group did speak to at least some Jewish students and community members beyond those in the group itself before issuing its recommendations. The spokesman’s comment followed the publication of a Jewish Telegraphic Agency story about the apparent lack of... The post Pitt officials say some Jewish students were interviewed for campus antisemitism report appeared first on The Forward .
‘Nobody Wants This’ is getting less and less Jewish (Oct 22, 2026 07:01 AM - Forward.com – All)
In its third season, Nobody Wants This gives up on Judaism. The Netflix show, starring Adam Brody as the ultimate nice Jewish boy, Rabbi Noah Roklov, and Kristen Bell as Joanne, his shiksa — the show’s preferred term — girlfriend, has been accused, repeatedly, of doing Jews wrong. Its creator, Erin Foster, a fellow blonde... The post ‘Nobody Wants This’ is getting less and less Jewish appeared first on The Forward .
Herzog calls for crackdown on violent West Bank settlers as olive harvest tensions mount (Oct 21, 2026 10:17 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — BUDAPEST, Hungary — Israeli President Isaac Herzog is backing senior Israel Defense Forces commanders in taking decisive action against violent settler attacks in the West Bank, he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. His comments came a day before Israeli forces detained New York Democratic congressional candidate Brad Lander along with 90 rabbis and... The post Herzog calls for crackdown on violent West Bank settlers as olive harvest tensions mount appeared first on The Forward .
El-Sayed campaign hires Jewish liaison (Oct 21, 2026 10:16 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — DETROIT – Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign for Michigan’s U.S. Senate seat has hired a Jewish liaison in the final weeks of the election season, part of a new push to swing undecided Jewish voters as the contentious race enters its homestretch. Lenore Goldman is a veteran political consultant with Michigan ties whose work has... The post El-Sayed campaign hires Jewish liaison appeared first on The Forward .
Why many Israelis are silent on West Bank violence even as it escalates (Oct 21, 2026 09:39 PM - Forward.com – All)
In the last month, Jewish terrorists in the occupied West Bank boasted on Telegram and in Whatsapp groups that they burned 56 Palestinian vehicles, torched 13 buildings, injured 146 Palestinians, smashed numerous windshields, cut down thousands of olive trees and burned hundreds of dunams of fields and orchards. The tally was accompanied by a video... The post Why many Israelis are silent on West Bank violence even as it escalates appeared first on The Forward .
The ‘Seinfeld’ cast reunites (but not really) to address Israel’s elections (Oct 21, 2026 07:51 PM - Forward.com – All)
Jerry Seinfeld, Elaine Benes, George Costanza and Cosmo Kramer are weighing in on next week’s Israeli elections. AI deepfakes of them, that is, who appear in a new, three-minute clip, looking and sounding almost exactly like they did on the classic TV show. But unlike the torrent of noxious fakes from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu... The post The ‘Seinfeld’ cast reunites (but not really) to address Israel’s elections appeared first on The Forward .
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