The Reporters' Roundtable
In this week Forward Reporters’ Roundtable, host Josh Nathan-Kazis speaks with Forward contributor Eric Trager about the implications of the current uprising in Cairo, and with Sisterhood blog contributor Sarah Seltzer about new legislative threats to abortion rights and access.Read More
Portman Dominates This Film Season
By Jordana Horn
Natalie Portman is favored to win an Oscar for her performance in “Black Swan.” But she reveals another side of her talent in “The Other Woman,” based on a novel by Ayelet Waldman.Read More
Storm-Tossed Hungary Gets a Schiff
By Benjamin Ivry
András Schiff is one of the most accomplished classical musicians in the world today, and he has fearlessly fought anti-Semitism — whether in his native Hungary or in his adopted Austria, writes Benjamin Ivry.Read More
J Street's Struggle for Acceptance
By Nathan Guttman
As the second annual J Street conference approaches, mainstream acceptance of the lobbying organization is facing some serious bumps in the road, after the group was disavowed by a prominent Democrat.Read More
An American in Cairo, Facing Turmoil
By Eric Trager
In this Letter from Cairo, an American Jew describes making his way through the Egyptian capital — and eventually out of Egypt — amid the ongoing mass demonstrations against Mubarak.Read More
An Unlikely Chinese-Jewish Collaboration
By Scott D. Seligman
In honor of Chinese New Year, we have a tale of how, in 1903, the Chinese Theater in Manhattan hosted a well-attended, Chinese-organized benefit performance for victims of the Kishinev pogrom.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
Taking on Glenn Beck
Historian Deborah Lipstadt and Mik Moore of Jewish Funds for Justice offer two different takes on the controversy over Glenn Beck’s Nazi analogies and on the debate surrounding JFSJ’s advertisement assailing the Fox News Channel host.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, John Bradley says Islamists are likely to gain ground, and J.J. Goldberg suggests the weather played a role.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
