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Analysis

Gov. Gavin Newsom encourages a crowd to vote against the recall effort targeting him, August 2021. (Photo/Forward-Justin Sullivan-Getty Images)
Posted inAnalysis

Recall or not, Gavin Newsom needs to atone—and so do his critics

Rob Eshman by Rob Eshman and Forward September 14, 2021September 14, 2021
A swastika was found painted on Temple Sinai’s carved wooden door in Oakland, Oct. 18, 2020. (Photo/Courtesy Temple Sinai)
Posted inAnalysis

Our hate crime reporting system is broken

Laura E. Adkins by Laura E. Adkins and Forward September 8, 2021September 9, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett departs for Washington, on August 24, 2021. (Photo/Avi Ohayon-GPO)
Posted inAnalysis

Will Biden and Bennett hit restart button on U.S.-Israel relations?

by Jacob Kornbluh and Forward August 25, 2021
Children in Afghanistan attend class outdoors. (Photo/Guy Lawson-USAID)
Posted inUncategorized

Reporting from Afghanistan, I learned just how little we Americans knew

Larry Cohler-Esses by Larry Cohler-Esses and Forward August 19, 2021
(Clockwise from top left) Analucía Lopezrevoredo, Ginna Green, Angel Alvarez-Mapp and Janu Mandel at the Aug. 12 Zoom unveiling of the “Beyond the Count” study.
Posted inNews

‘We are not alone!’ How a new study validates the feelings of many Jews of color.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten August 13, 2021July 7, 2024
Paula Pretlow (right) with her daughter Alison in Jerusalem.
Posted inBay Area, Analysis, Jewish Life

Jews of color, once sidelined, now being recruited by Jewish agencies

Rachele Kanigel by Rachele Kanigel August 5, 2021March 10, 2025
State Schools Superintendent Tony Thurmond speaking to the press Aug. 14 about the state's proposed high school ethnic studies curriculum. (From left) Assemblyman Marc Berman, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Thurmond, Senator Ben Allen, Assemblyman Jose Medina (Photo/Facebook-Abby Porth)
Posted inEducation

‘Liberated’ educators implement their own ethnic studies programs

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman July 15, 2021July 16, 2021
A social hall under construction in The Shul, a synagogue in Surfside, Florida, is piled high with donations for newly homeless families less than 18 hours after a nearby building collapsed, June 25, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Ron Kampeas)
Posted inFirst Person

‘A veritable sigh of relief’: How the global Jewish community is coming together in Surfside

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 30, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters at a Jewish Media Summit in Jerusalem, Dec. 6, 2016. (Photo/JTA-Jewish Media Summit)
Posted inAnalysis

Why did Netanyahu treat American Jewish media with contempt?

Gary Rosenblatt by Gary Rosenblatt and JTA June 11, 2021
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, July 14, 2013. (Photo/JTA-Abir Sultan-Pool-Getty Images)
Posted inAnalysis

Netanyahu changed how Americans view Israel — but not the way he wanted

by Ron Kampeas and JTA June 4, 2021

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