An American in Cairo, Facing Chaos
By Eric Trager
In this Letter from Cairo, an American describes making his way through the Egyptian capital — and eventually out of Egypt — amid the ongoing mass demonstrations against Mubarak.Read More
Call Them Israelites — Not Jews
By Yardena Schwartz
Yardena Schwartz spends a Sabbath at a Bronx congregation of black Israelites, a religious group that shares many traditions with Judaism, but whose members vehemently deny they are Jewish.Read More
Glenn Beck Isn’t the Only Offender
By Deborah Lipstadt
Historian Deborah Lipstadt argues that the outrage over Glenn Beck’s Nazi analogies should be applied consistently to similarly offensive speech, “irrespective of our political views or those of the speaker.”Read More
Unrest in Egypt
Yossi Alpher looks at what’s at stake for Israel, Leonard Fein examines the American dilemma over whether to encourage stability or democracy in the Arab world, and John Bradley says Islamists are likely to gain strength in Egypt and Tunisia.Read More
Shoah: The Next Generation
By David Biale
As the generation of Shoah survivors reaches the end of its life span, the question arises of how to preserve the memory of that apocalypse by those who did not directly experience it. Two new books may have answers.Read More
Moses: The Video Opera
By Eileen Reynolds
Yoav Gal’s “Mosheh,” in New York through February 5, uses Exodus less as a plot blueprint than as a starting point for a hallucinatory meditation on themes of alienation and loneliness.Read More
Daniel Bell, Remembered
By Joseph Dorman
Daniel Bell, who died on January 25, aged 91, was born the son of poor Jewish immigrants and will be remembered as one of America’s leading postwar intellectuals.Read More
Putting Israel's Travel App to the Test
By Nathan Jeffay
Nathan Jeffay spends a sunny January day allowing the Israel Tourism Ministry’s free iPhone and iPad application to guide him through Tel Aviv.Read More
The Reporters' Roundtable
In this week’s Reporters’ Roundtable, Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with staffers about the recent leak of internal documents from the Palestinian negotiating team, and about the life and times of Samuel T. Cohen, the eccentric physicist who invented the neutron bomb.Read More
The Nigun Project
By Jeremiah Lockwood
The Forward’s artist-in-residence, Jeremiah Lockwood, of The Sway Machinery, has worked with a range of musical collaborators to reinterpret 10 nigunim, or traditional Jewish songs without words. Listen here.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
Egyptian Choices
The revolution sweeping the Arab world is both exhilarating and frightening, and it is understandable that fear is overtaking excitement in the hearts of many American Jews. We are anxious about threats to Israel’s safety and the waning Western influence in a region that suddenly has exploded with populist rage. Our geopolitical expectations are violently scrambled, leaving the sort of cognitive dissonance that invades the mind when what you thought you knew for sure no longer seems true.Read More
