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They want Jewish life without Zionism. Now they’re building the institutions to match. (Oct 14, 2026 11:21 AM - Forward.com – All)(JTA) — One year after Jewish Currents editor-at-large Arielle Angel called for “new Jewish institutions” that have no attachment to Israel or Zionism, more than 100 Jews crammed into a Victorian house-turned-event space in central Brooklyn in hopes of creating them. The event was billed as a bootcamp for people hoping to get fledgling Jewish... The post They want Jewish life without Zionism. Now they’re building the institutions to match. appeared first on The Forward .
After bronze win, judo athlete Raz Hershko tells JTA, ‘I stand for something far bigger than myself.’ (Oct 14, 2026 11:16 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Israeli judoka Raz Hershko, one of the country’s top athletes, missed a major opportunity in 2025 when the 12-day war between Israel and Iran closed Israeli airspace, preventing her from traveling to Budapest. Earlier this year, she withdrew from the Tashkent Grand Slam after the Shin Bet ordered the Israeli team to leave... The post After bronze win, judo athlete Raz Hershko tells JTA, ‘I stand for something far bigger than myself.’ appeared first on The Forward .
Jewish school educators cancel trip to Italy after Italian education program required participants to denounce ‘genocide’ in Gaza (Oct 14, 2026 11:12 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Educators from Jewish schools across the U.S. canceled a study trip to Reggio Emilia, Italy, over whether the hosts would require participants to formally distance themselves from Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank. The controversy has drawn accusations of antisemitism from Jewish educators and from Italian Jewish community leaders. It has... The post Jewish school educators cancel trip to Italy after Italian education program required participants to denounce ‘genocide’ in Gaza appeared first on The Forward .
Why Evangelical Christians are hell-bent on finding Noah’s Ark (Oct 14, 2026 11:12 AM - Forward.com – All)
As Jews in synagogues around the world read the story of Noah’s ark this week. a team of Biblical archeologists funded by Christian groups will be working to excavate it. For the last three months, the group has been surveying a boat-shaped geological formation in eastern Turkey that has tantalized explorers for decades. They’re hoping... The post Why Evangelical Christians are hell-bent on finding Noah’s Ark appeared first on The Forward .
Somerville councilors to discuss Israel divestment proposal (Oct 13, 2026 11:39 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — SOMERVILLE, Mass. — The issue of divestment from Israel returns to the Somerville City Council in Massachusetts on Tuesday night as lawmakers plan to discuss how to implement a nonbinding ballot question on the matter that passed last year. The divestment push has divided the city of more than 84,000 residents, which has... The post Somerville councilors to discuss Israel divestment proposal appeared first on The Forward .
A major Jewish museum hopes to join the Smithsonian – at a difficult moment for the storied institution (Oct 13, 2026 11:30 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History is moving closer to becoming part of the Smithsonian Institution at a moment of significant upheaval for the storied museum network. A new congressional commission will study whether to make the museum part of the Smithsonian. Its members were sworn in Tuesday, when they also... The post A major Jewish museum hopes to join the Smithsonian – at a difficult moment for the storied institution appeared first on The Forward .
Two deaths in Manchester synagogue attack last year will be probed through public inquiry, Britain says (Oct 13, 2026 11:20 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — The deaths of two Jewish men in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester last year will be examined through a public inquiry, the British home secretary announced on Monday, a necessary step to include sensitive information in the investigation. Melvin Cravitz and Adrian Daulby were killed during the attack on Yom Kippur... The post Two deaths in Manchester synagogue attack last year will be probed through public inquiry, Britain says appeared first on The Forward .
Checkmate? Netanyahu faces a daunting playing field ahead of Oct. 27 (Oct 13, 2026 11:18 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — With just two weeks to go before Israel’s election, the political chessboard is set — and there is little indication that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has found a winning move. Israel’s prime minister is not elected directly by voters but must assemble a coalition commanding a majority of the Knesset’s 120 seats. That... The post Checkmate? Netanyahu faces a daunting playing field ahead of Oct. 27 appeared first on The Forward .
Poll: Most New York City Jewish voters say criticism of Israel is often a cover for antisemitism (Oct 13, 2026 08:37 PM - Forward.com – All)
A majority of Jewish voters in New York City believe criticism of the Israeli government is often used as a cover for antisemitism, and more are concerned about antisemitic speech and attitudes than physical hate crimes, according to a new poll examining Jewish views on rising antisemitism and the city’s political climate. The survey also... The post Poll: Most New York City Jewish voters say criticism of Israel is often a cover for antisemitism appeared first on The Forward .
The photos may be black and white, but the klezmer world is drenched with color (Oct 13, 2026 02:46 PM - Forward.com – All)
In Lloyd Wolf’s evocative photography exhibit, “A Joyful Noise,” you can almost hear the Klezmer music — plaintive and celebratory, earthy and devout, and always with a profound, but not easily definable, outpouring of Yiddishkeit. Now showing at the Dr. Bernard Heller Museum at New York’s Hebrew Union College, the 45 images feature solo, dual... The post The photos may be black and white, but the klezmer world is drenched with color appeared first on The Forward .
On Columbus Day, remember Abraham Zacuto, the Jewish astronomer history forgot (Oct 13, 2026 12:21 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Every October, Christopher Columbus returns not only as history but as controversy. The voyages associated with his name transformed the world, but their legacy is inseparable from conquest, coercion and the destruction that followed European expansion. Yet the same Iberian age also produced a quieter and far less controversial revolution: advances in astronomy,... The post On Columbus Day, remember Abraham Zacuto, the Jewish astronomer history forgot appeared first on The Forward .
Recorded anti-Jewish hate crimes rise 10% in England and Wales (Oct 12, 2026 09:11 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Hate crimes targeting Jewish people in England and Wales rose by 10% in the year ended in March, according to the latest data released by the British government. Police-reported hate crime — including crime influenced by other factors such as race and sexual orientation — overall increased by 7% compared with the previous... The post Recorded anti-Jewish hate crimes rise 10% in England and Wales appeared first on The Forward .
Hasan Piker criticizes ‘opportunists’ who accused Mamdani of genocide (Oct 12, 2026 08:35 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Hasan Piker called the protesters who jeered New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani at an Oct. 7 vigil last week “opportunists,” who “tarnished” the anti-Zionist movement’s message. Piker, the popular streamer who has campaigned for a number of democratic socialist candidates, made his remarks Sunday at Jewish Currents Live, an all-day event hosted by... The post Hasan Piker criticizes ‘opportunists’ who accused Mamdani of genocide appeared first on The Forward .
In Israel, boy killed, hikers injured, after suspected Hezbollah cluster bomb detonates (Oct 12, 2026 08:30 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — An explosion during a school hiking trip killed a boy about 14 years old on Monday and injured 24 others in northern Israel, Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency medical service, said. Rescue teams were dispatched to the scene, and the injured were evacuated to hospitals in northern Israel. “An initial investigation by IDF... The post In Israel, boy killed, hikers injured, after suspected Hezbollah cluster bomb detonates appeared first on The Forward .
These legendary magicians made their Jewish identities — poof! — disappear (Oct 12, 2026 07:28 PM - Forward.com – All)
Harry Houdini liked to tell people that he was the son of a rabbi, and although he was known for the tricks he played on audiences, that story was true. The world-famous escape artist was born as Erik Weisz in Budapest to Rabbi Mayer Samuel and Cecelia Steiner Weisz. The whole family emigrated to Wisconsin... The post These legendary magicians made their Jewish identities — poof! — disappear appeared first on The Forward .
A poet’s reaction to this summer’s terrorist attack in Berlin (Oct 12, 2026 06:32 PM - Forward.com – All)
דעם 25סטן יולי איז דער פּאָעט דזשײק שנײַדער געפֿאָרן קײן װײַמאַר כּדי צו מאָדערירן אַ כּמו־טעלעװיזיע־פּראָגראַם אױף ייִדיש מיט דער אַקטריסע עלענאָר ריסאַ, אַן אונטערנעמונג אין משך פֿונעם פֿעסטיװאַל „ייִדיש־זומער װײַמאַר“. אױף מאָרגן איז ער אַהײמגעפֿאָרן קײן בערלין, װוּ ער האָט מאַרשירט אינעם יערלעכן שטאָלץ־פּאַראַד – אײדער אַ טעראָריסט האָט אַטאַקירט דעם פּאַראַד, דערמאָרדעט אײן... The post A poet’s reaction to this summer’s terrorist attack in Berlin appeared first on The Forward .
These Bundist pioneers were heroes in their time. Would they be in ours? (Oct 12, 2026 04:06 PM - Forward.com – All)
Academic stars in high school, Abrasha Blum and Luba Bielecka shared a slow burn romance and fervor for radical change. That hardly set them apart amid the ferment after the tsarist empire crumbled in 1919. No one would have predicted that Bielecka would go on to be awarded global nursing’s highest honor and Blum Poland’s... The post These Bundist pioneers were heroes in their time. Would they be in ours? appeared first on The Forward .
AIPAC couldn’t stop Michigan’s El-Sayed in the primary. Now it’s trying again. (Oct 12, 2026 11:15 AM - Forward.com – All)
AIPAC’s super PAC has re-entered Michigan’s closely watched U.S. Senate race less than a month before the general election, spending nearly $100,000 on mailers attacking Abdul El-Sayed, despite earlier concerns by allies of his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers, that it would boost the Democratic nominee. The spending of $94,620 by United Democracy Project (UDP) on... The post AIPAC couldn’t stop Michigan’s El-Sayed in the primary. Now it’s trying again. appeared first on The Forward .
In Israel’s election, Netanyahu faces a reckoning over Oct. 7 failure (Oct 12, 2026 10:03 AM - Forward.com – All)
With barely two weeks remaining before Israel’s Oct. 27 election, the country has been consumed by an extraordinary confrontation between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and senior former aides over what he knew before the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, what he did with that knowledge and whether his office subsequently sought to rewrite the... The post In Israel’s election, Netanyahu faces a reckoning over Oct. 7 failure appeared first on The Forward .
Archaeologists uncover a 300-meter section of ancient aqueduct in Jerusalem (Oct 11, 2026 11:38 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — JERUSALEM — Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a 300-meter (984-foot) section of Jerusalem’s ancient Lower Aqueduct, providing another window into how engineers about 2,000 years ago ensured that the city would have an adequate supply of water for residents and pilgrims. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) began the dig three months ago in advance... The post Archaeologists uncover a 300-meter section of ancient aqueduct in Jerusalem appeared first on The Forward .
Mamdani faces growing pressure over Jewish NYPD Commissioner Tisch and over Israel from left flank (Oct 11, 2026 12:32 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing increasing pressure from some on the leftmost flank of his voting coalition, and an ICE shooting Thursday led democratic socialist allies to add their voices to a major demand: dump police commissioner Jessica Tisch. “The NYPD’s Strategic Response Group must be disbanded as quickly as... The post Mamdani faces growing pressure over Jewish NYPD Commissioner Tisch and over Israel from left flank appeared first on The Forward .
A planned non-Zionist Jewish school in Boston hopes to ride the momentum of the left (Oct 11, 2026 12:29 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — BOSTON — In the middle of a conversation about her future children, it dawned on Leah Robbins that the school she imagined for them did not exist. Robbins envisioned a Jewish school where children studied Jewish texts, history and observance, as she did at the school run out of her Conservative synagogue in... The post A planned non-Zionist Jewish school in Boston hopes to ride the momentum of the left appeared first on The Forward .
Protesters in Toronto: ‘We will honor all our martyrs’ after 3 years of Gaza war (Oct 11, 2026 12:26 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — TORONTO – Hundreds of protesters marched through Toronto’s downtown core via Yonge Street Saturday afternoon, chanting more loudly as additional people joined the demonstration. “We will honor all our martyrs, all our children, sons and daughters!” and “In my lifetime I will see Palestinians living free!” the crowd yelled in unison. Separated by... The post Protesters in Toronto: ‘We will honor all our martyrs’ after 3 years of Gaza war appeared first on The Forward .
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators take to the streets in Europe to mark 3rd anniversary of Gaza war (Oct 11, 2026 12:25 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators turned out across Europe on Saturday, as activists marked three years of war in Gaza with rallies and marches in cities from London to Rome and Berlin. According to Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, 357 pro-Palestinian protest events were scheduled across 39 countries from... The post Pro-Palestinian demonstrators take to the streets in Europe to mark 3rd anniversary of Gaza war appeared first on The Forward .
Samin Nosrat, celebrity chef who signed BDS pledge, shares stage with Israeli chefs (Oct 11, 2026 12:22 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — (J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) When celebrity chef and Bay Area food ambassador Samin Nosrat appeared this week at San Francisco’s JCC alongside two Israeli chefs, it was nearly three years since she pledged not to buy or promote Israeli food. The Chez Panisse alum and author of 2017’s smash... The post Samin Nosrat, celebrity chef who signed BDS pledge, shares stage with Israeli chefs appeared first on The Forward .
Brooklyn’s new ‘lard bagel’ is not kosher. But it is delicious. (Oct 10, 2026 02:00 PM - Forward.com – All)
Bagels have long been a staple of the Jewish diet, even if they’re not exactly health food. But the latest addition to New York’s bagel scene achieves the impressive feat of inviting both your doctor and your rabbi’s scorn: the “lard bagel,” made with rendered pork fat. The decidedly unkosher offering is on the menu... The post Brooklyn’s new ‘lard bagel’ is not kosher. But it is delicious. appeared first on The Forward .
Yiddish Modernism and the political tumult in the 1930s (Oct 9, 2026 06:08 PM - Forward.com – All)
אין די 1920ער און 1930ער יאָרן האָט דער זשורנאַל „אין זיך“ געדינט װי אַ טריבונע פֿאַר מאָדערניסטישע עקספּערימענטן אין דער אַמעריקאַנער ייִדיש־ליטעראַטור. צו די „אינזיכיסטן“ האָבן געהערט יעקבֿ גלאַטשטײן, אַהרן גלאַנץ־לעיעלעס, ה. לײװיק, שלמה שװאַרץ, יהודה לײב טעלער און אַנדערע. װי מען קען טרעפֿן פֿונעם זשורנאַלס נאָמען, זײַנען די דאָזיקע ליטעראַטן געװען פֿאַרטאָן אין שעפֿערישע... The post Yiddish Modernism and the political tumult in the 1930s appeared first on The Forward .
I never saw myself in Barbie. Would ‘Hanukkah Barbie’ have changed that? (Oct 9, 2026 06:00 PM - Forward.com – All)
I wasn’t really a Barbie kid. While I occasionally played with my sister’s hand-me-down Barbies, I preferred American Girl dolls. They were Barbie’s chunkier, cherubic counterparts, each representing a girl from a different period in history and accompanied by a series of historical-fiction books about her life. I devoured those books, including the story of... The post I never saw myself in Barbie. Would ‘Hanukkah Barbie’ have changed that? appeared first on The Forward .
Minnesota man charged with ISIS-inspired plot on Jewish-owned Mall of America (Oct 9, 2026 10:45 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — The FBI accused an 18-year-old man of buying an AK-47 assault rifle with plans to commit a mass shooting in support of ISIS at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the largest indoor shopping mall in North America. Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, of Richfield, Minnesota, was charged on Wednesday with one count of... The post Minnesota man charged with ISIS-inspired plot on Jewish-owned Mall of America appeared first on The Forward .
Is Israel or Iran a bigger threat to the U.S.? Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed won’t say (Oct 9, 2026 10:34 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed was asked multiple times by a debate moderator on Thursday which country he considers a bigger threat to the U.S.: Iran or Israel. Each time, he parried. “That’s a ridiculous hypothetical because here’s what’s happening right now: Our ostensible ally in Israel has lobbied us to go to war... The post Is Israel or Iran a bigger threat to the U.S.? Michigan’s Abdul El-Sayed won’t say appeared first on The Forward .
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