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Liberate the Letter, Pt 2

By Jane Eisner

George Washington’s famed letter urging religious tolerance should be seen by all. Liberals and conservatives alike must join the fight to get it displayed in public.Read More


Senate Dems to Jews: How About a Little Help?

By J.J. Goldberg

Things got a little testier than usual on Capitol Hill July 13 when the Senate Democrats held their annual midsummer get-together with Jewish organizational leaders to discuss next year’s legislative priorities. The Jewish leaders were expecting their traditional hug. What they got was more of a spanking.Read More


A World Where Jews Have No Safe Houses

By Leonard Fein

Not so long ago, Jews everywhere understood the bottom-line benefit of being Jewish. They may have put it differently, but in the end it was this: To be Jewish means you have safe houses all over the world. Heaven forbid you have to run and hide, you can turn to another Jew — even one of different denomination, of different politics, of different sexual orientation — to hide you. “Home,” as Robert Frost famously said, “is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” That kind of solidarity was the default connection of all Jews to one another.Read More


We Can’t Say This

Thanks to Israel’s new anti-boycott law, the boundaries of free speech and legitimate political expression have become unpredictably and suffocatingly tight. And this editorial may get us into trouble.Read More


A Terrible Pledge

Will abortion affect voters’ decisions in 2012? Probably not. But that hasn’t stopped a group from demanding that GOP candidates sign an extreme, anti-abortion pledge. Too many of them have.Read More


Read it Here!

Alert readers of this edition of the Forward may have noticed something new. A slightly different size to the page. Crisper printing. More use of color. That’s because, with this edition, the Forward is producing its entire national press run of both the English and Yiddish papers on presses owned by the New York Daily News, in Jersey City, N.J. The move will improve the quality of reproduction, expand options for advertisers and accelerate delivery to subscribers.Read More


Liberate the Letter!

George Washington’s 1790 letter endorsing religious tolerance, arguably the most important document in American Jewish history, should remain hidden no more, Jane Eisner writes.Read More


Keeping It Kosher

Is a hotel no longer to be considered kosher because of the way it treats its housekeepers? A growing number of religious leaders are considering the laws of kashrut to apply to the human beings who serve us as well as the animals we consume.Read More


How To Remember Gettysburg

By Jane Eisner

On its 148th anniversary, the Battle of Gettysburg resonates with a fusillade of lessons — about leadership, and about the necessity of war and its shattering costs.Read More


‘Who Is a Jew?’ Again?!

On the emotional, bedeviling issue of “Who is a Jew?” in Israel, there’s been a small but welcome move toward Jewish reconciliation and an infuriating roadblock put in the way of further progress.Read More


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