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Posted inTheater

Can an all-Mormon cast pull off ‘Fiddler on the Roof’? I went to Utah to find out.

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward April 12, 2022
The meat section at a kosher grocery store in Los Angeles. (Photo/Louis Keene)
Posted inU.S.

The fifth question: Why is this year’s seder so much more expensive?

Louis Keene by Louis Keene and Forward April 11, 2022April 11, 2022
From “Let There Be Light: The Real Story of Her Creation” by Liana Finck
Posted inComics

Cartoonist Liana Finck on rewriting Genesis, God as a woman and why Abraham feels like a Philip Roth character

PJ Grisar by PJ Grisar and Forward April 11, 2022
JOC leaders invited to a think tank convened by the Leichtag Foundation in September 2016, including Ilana Kaufman (top right)
Posted inOpinion

Despite 10 years of promises, Jewish leaders have failed to make space for Jews of color

Ilana Kaufman by Ilana Kaufman and Forward April 8, 2022April 8, 2022
Ukrainian troops seen during exercises in Kyiv, Jan. 22, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Sean Gallup-Getty Images)
Posted inFirst Person

I am a Ukrainian Jew. I have lost my mother to Russian disinformation

Michael Rozhkov by Michael Rozhkov and Forward April 6, 2022
the tweet features a graphic that reads "Anti-Zionism as a Core Value of Tzedek Chicago"
Posted inU.S.

Chicago synagogue officially designates itself ‘anti-Zionist’

Arno Rosenfeld by Arno Rosenfeld and Forward April 1, 2022
French presidential candidate Éric Zemmour delivers a speech during a debate ahead, Oct. 22, 2021 in Rouen, France. (Photo/Forward-Chesnot-Getty Images)
Posted inOpinion

American Jews ignore a far-right Jewish presidential candidate at their peril

Brad Rothschild by Brad Rothschild and Forward March 31, 2022
The S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Chapel on the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Photo/JTA-Ady Manory)
Posted inUncategorized, Opinion

Want more Reform rabbis? Stop turning away Jews in interfaith relationships

Edmund Case by Edmund Case and Forward March 30, 2022March 30, 2022
Brosnahan as the titular Marvelous Mrs. Maisel doing stanup comedy
Posted inTV & Film

How ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ undercuts its own feminist and Jewish identity

Mira Fox by Mira Fox and Forward March 29, 2022
a woman in a face mask stands in an airport with an unidentified man and three luggage carts piled high with luggage
Posted inNews

56 suitcases and a ticket to Warsaw: One Bay Area woman’s Ukraine relief effort

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward March 24, 2022

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