Reporters' Roundtable: Rick Sanchez's Fall; Brooklyn's Burgeoning Food Scene
In this week’s podcast, panelists discuss Rick Sanchez’s recent firing — and other prominent journalists who have lost their jobs after making comments perceived as hostile toward Jews. Then Devra Ferst, editor of The Jew and the Carrot, discusses accompanying famed food writer Joan Nathan on a culinary tour of Brooklyn.Read More
How Will Jews React to ‘Budrus’?
By Josh Nathan-Kazis
For American Jews whose image of Palestinian resistance to Israel is dominated by violence and terrorism, the new film “Budrus” promises to highlight the current wave of Palestinian civic resistance.Read More
Venezuela's Jews in the Eye of Storm
By Ilan Stavans
President Hugo Chavez is “one of the most sophisticated dancers along that thin line separating demonization of Israel from outright anti-Semitism,” writes Ilan Stevens in this Letter from Caracas.Read More
Forward Forum: Ideas on Identity
The Forward’s guest opinion editor Rachel Sklar, left, of Mediaite.com, offers an array of opinion on the theme of identity from an eclectic group — including the author of “Save the Deli,” the creator of BreakupGirl.net and a Hebrew language expert.Read More
Women's Roundable Podcast
In this podcast, panelists discuss whether modern Jewish women should be embracing or eschewing the moniker “balebuste.” They also weigh in on the Conservative movement’s new machzor, and explain why Haiti’s tent cities are such dangerous places to be female.Read More
Theology in the Poconos
By Stuart Schoffman
Phillip Roth’s spare and haunting new work, “Nemesis,” is a novel in three meticulous and suspenseful acts. Set in a Jewish summer camp in 1944, the book hearkens back to “Goodbye Columbus.”Read More
Illustrated Prophesies
By Ranen Omer-Sherman
“Turn Right at the End,” set in possible future Israels, “may repel some and provoke sadness, recognition or unease in others, but her visceral imagery leaves nobody untouched,” writes Ranen Omer-Sherman.Read More
The Fight To Save Shcharansky
By Gal Beckerman
In the last of three excerpts from “When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone,” Gal Beckerman writes of how Avital Shcharansky worked tirelessly to make her husband’s name one the West could not ignore.Read More
The Last Shtetl Jews of Belarus
By Judith Matloff
The elderly Jews of Belarus suffered long after the end of the Holocaust. Those who returned to their empty shtetls now find themselves with no extended family to care for them. Judith Matloff documents their stories.Read More
Nigun Project: The Baal Shem Tov's Nigun
By Jeremiah Lockwood
Here, Forward’s artist in residence Jeremiah Lockwood performs a nigun with Khaira Arby and her band, in town from Timbuktu, Mali.Read More
The Forward’s Next Step Involves You
By Samuel Norich
In a letter to readers, Samuel Norich, publisher of the Forward, describes his vision for the legendary media organization and invites readers and supporters to become involved.Read More
Peace With Syria
Syria’s maybe yes, maybe no attitude toward peace with Israel is enough to give even experienced Middle East diplomats a case of whiplash. One day Syrian President Bashar Assad is hosting U.S. special envoy George Mitchell in Damascus and saluting America’s efforts to broker a peace treaty. Barely two days later, Assad is embracing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and vowing unbreakable friendship.Read More
