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They met on a Birthright trip then married. Now this American Israeli couple’s internet fame has turned to infamy. (Oct 23, 2026 07:51 PM - Forward.com – All)Ethan and Hila Klein first met at Yad Vashem — Israel’s Holocaust museum — in 2007, a meet-cute they recounted, giggling, years later for their millions of YouTube followers. “I think I went up to her and said something like, ‘They had it coming, don’t you think?’” said Ethan, known for his edgy humor and... The post They met on a Birthright trip then married. Now this American Israeli couple’s internet fame has turned to infamy. appeared first on The Forward .
These Jewish college students have some ‘nonnegotiables’ for El-Sayed (Oct 23, 2026 06:36 PM - Forward.com – All)
At the University of Michigan, first-year student Robert Kashan, 18, and sophomore Jacob Reich, 19, sat behind a large blue sign. “Some things are nonnegotiable,” it declared in all caps. The sign laid out their requirements for any candidate seeking their support: a commitment to Jewish safety, “including for Zionist Jews,” and supporting Jewish statehood... The post These Jewish college students have some ‘nonnegotiables’ for El-Sayed appeared first on The Forward .
Does anyone in Jerusalem care what happens to us? (Oct 23, 2026 06:32 PM - Forward.com – All)
An Israeli think tank has put on paper what most American Jews know in their kishkas: Israel’s actions over there affect our safety here. So here’s my question: Does anybody over there care? The report, published by The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), drew on the input of 20 Jewish leaders from five countries.... The post Does anyone in Jerusalem care what happens to us? appeared first on The Forward .
How schools are teaching about Israel now, and winning back Jewish donors (Oct 23, 2026 06:20 PM - Forward.com – All)
Silicon Valley philanthropists Eli and Jeanette Reinhard are known for their generosity to Jewish causes, from the local Jewish federation to the counterterrorism project at the Washington Institute for Near East Studies. They are especially generous on the campus of their alma mater, Stanford University, where Eli Reinhard helped found the Jewish Studies department and... The post How schools are teaching about Israel now, and winning back Jewish donors appeared first on The Forward .
How a search for my Jewish Chicago led me to the Forward – and back home again (Oct 23, 2026 06:00 PM - Forward.com – All)
When I headed to New York for college, I knew I’d be leaving behind my peach-colored bedroom, Thursday nights watching Hill Street Blues with my parents and our cat Shayna, and the Belden Deli. But I didn’t realize that I would also be leaving behind my Jewish Chicago – and beginning a decades-long search to... The post How a search for my Jewish Chicago led me to the Forward – and back home again appeared first on The Forward .
Why both sides are ducking settler violence ahead of Israel’s elections (Oct 23, 2026 04:19 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — For American Jews who follow Israel closely, one of the hardest things to understand about Israeli politics today is the gap between the severity of settler violence in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank, and the relatively limited role it plays in the election campaign. The phenomenon is not being... The post Why both sides are ducking settler violence ahead of Israel’s elections appeared first on The Forward .
How a Jewish play from 1908 enshrined the idea of America as a cultural ‘melting pot’ (Oct 23, 2026 03:58 PM - Forward.com – All)
It’s long been unfashionable to refer to the United States as a “melting pot.” Identity politics and multiculturalism have undermined the ideal of an assimilation so complete that it obliterates ethnic distinctions. Now the persistence of difference is hailed, at least in some quarters, as enriching rather than estranging, even if the associated metaphors —... The post How a Jewish play from 1908 enshrined the idea of America as a cultural ‘melting pot’ appeared first on The Forward .
‘I wanna blow up a synagogue’: Online posts lead to hate crime charge against Utah man (Oct 23, 2026 03:47 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — A Utah man accused of possessing explosive devices, searching online for nearby synagogues and making online threats to kill Jews is due in court Friday to face charges including attempting to commit a hate crime. A federal grand jury indicted Skyler AJ Rose, 22, on Wednesday, the Department of Justice said in a... The post ‘I wanna blow up a synagogue’: Online posts lead to hate crime charge against Utah man appeared first on The Forward .
Will this election end the battle over drafting Haredi men into the Israeli army? (Oct 23, 2026 12:16 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Whether to extend military conscription to haredi men, a longstanding question fueling political tensions in Israel, has boiled over since Hamas launched the current war with Israel with its deadly raids on Oct. 7, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of Israeli soldiers and reservists battled on Israel’s southern and northern fronts and the manpower... The post Will this election end the battle over drafting Haredi men into the Israeli army? appeared first on The Forward .
The discovery of a Jewish Negro League star forces a rewrite of Jewish baseball history (Oct 23, 2026 12:14 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — For more than a century, Oscar Levis was hiding in plain sight. He pitched a no-hitter and dominated the Cuban Winter League. He tallied five straight seasons without losing a game against one of the Northeast’s toughest white semiprofessional clubs. He was so dominant that W. Rollo Wilson, the preeminent Black sportswriter of... The post The discovery of a Jewish Negro League star forces a rewrite of Jewish baseball history appeared first on The Forward .
Why a new ultra-Orthodox party supports drafting Haredi men to the IDF (Oct 23, 2026 12:08 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — JERUSALEM – Yehoshua Pfeffer is a popular British-born haredi rabbi in Jerusalem. He is unusual among the religious leaders in the ultra-Orthodox world because he believes that haredim can and should integrate into and contribute more to the wider Israeli society even as they uphold their Torah observance. Arguably the most fraught implication... The post Why a new ultra-Orthodox party supports drafting Haredi men to the IDF appeared first on The Forward .
Two Israelis critically wounded by Palestinian gunfire in West Bank (Oct 23, 2026 11:16 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Two Israelis were critically wounded in a Palestinian shooting attack that lasted over 20 minutes next to a West Bank checkpoint on Route 35 just outside of Hebron early Friday morning. It occurred as the Israeli army was on alert for an increase in violence ahead of Tuesday’s Israeli elections. Three others were... The post Two Israelis critically wounded by Palestinian gunfire in West Bank appeared first on The Forward .
Two Israelis killed by Palestinian gunfire in West Bank (Oct 23, 2026 11:16 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a Palestinian shooting attack that lasted over 20 minutes next to a West Bank checkpoint on Route 35 just outside of Hebron early Friday morning, according to The New York Times. It occurred as the Israeli army was on alert for an increase in violence ahead of... The post Two Israelis killed by Palestinian gunfire in West Bank appeared first on The Forward .
IDF planning major West Bank campaign after 2 soldiers killed, Netanyahu says (Oct 23, 2026 11:16 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — The Israeli army is planning a large-scale military operation against Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said after Palestinian gunmen killed two soldiers and wounded three others outside of Hebron on Friday morning. Netanyahu visited the site of the attack along with Defense Minister Israel Katz, pledging that the... The post IDF planning major West Bank campaign after 2 soldiers killed, Netanyahu says appeared first on The Forward .
Can Netanyahu win again? The secret to his political survival – and why it may finally fail him (Oct 23, 2026 10:07 AM - Forward.com – All)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was once dubbed “King Bibi” for his remarkable ability to win elections, starting with his surprise victory in 1996 at age 46. The number of political rivals who have risen and fallen during his decades in power is almost impossible to count. But with the Oct. 27 election just days... The post Can Netanyahu win again? The secret to his political survival – and why it may finally fail him appeared first on The Forward .
While AIPAC’s critics rejoice as lobby shifts strategy, its defenders push back (Oct 23, 2026 09:45 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — AIPAC’s critics gloated on Thursday after the pro-Israel lobby announced that it was ending direct contributions and candidate endorsements. But defenders of the storied Washington institution pushed back at that characterization, saying instead that the organization had made a smart course correction amid strong political headwinds stoked at least in part by antisemitism.... The post While AIPAC’s critics rejoice as lobby shifts strategy, its defenders push back appeared first on The Forward .
UK adopts sweeping measures against antisemitism in schools (Oct 23, 2026 02:59 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — The U.K. has adopted sweeping measures to combat antisemitism in English schools, prompting pushback from the country’s largest teachers’ union. The move came after a new government-commissioned review found that three in five Jewish students reported experiencing antisemitism in English schools. The most common incidents were jokes, stereotypes and comments about Jewish people.... The post UK adopts sweeping measures against antisemitism in schools appeared first on The Forward .
Orthodox Jewish man stabbed in midtown Manhattan (Oct 23, 2026 02:40 AM - Forward.com – All)
(New York Jewish Week) — An Orthodox Jewish man is in stable condition after being stabbed on Wednesday evening in the Diamond District of midtown Manhattan. Police are investigating the attack as a possible hate crime. Police told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident as a... The post Orthodox Jewish man stabbed in midtown Manhattan appeared first on The Forward .
VIDEO: A Hasid gives us a tour of Morocco in Yiddish (Oct 22, 2026 08:44 PM - Forward.com – All)
דער ירושלימער יוטוב־שטערן וועלוול קירשנבוים האָט לעצטנס אַרויסגעשטעלט אַ ווידעאָ אויף ייִדיש פֿון אַ פּרעכטיקן וויזיט, וואָס ער האָט געמאַכט אין מאַראָקאָ. עס באַגלייט אים זײַן חבֿר אַבֿרהם פּרץ. אינעם ווידעאָ זעט מען ווי קירשנבוים דאַוונט שחרית מיט די אָרטיקע ייִדן און באַזוכט אַ גוט אָפּגעהיטענעם בית־עולם, וווּ עס ליגן באַערדיקט גרויסע צדיקים ווי למשל... The post VIDEO: A Hasid gives us a tour of Morocco in Yiddish appeared first on The Forward .
Conservative and Christian movies are coming for Hollywood (Oct 22, 2026 08:15 PM - Forward.com – All)
A star-studded new movie set in a Soviet prison is coming out in November. James Franco and Rob Lowe anchor the cast of Confession, playing a brutal prison guard and an imprisoned dissident professor, and a disheveled Nick Nolte appears as a fellow prisoner. These actors were once huge gets, and their names could convey... The post Conservative and Christian movies are coming for Hollywood appeared first on The Forward .
‘Heil’ mary? New Atlanta Falcons logo inspires Nazi comparisons (Oct 22, 2026 07:11 PM - Forward.com – All)
If there was something off about the logo the Atlanta Falcons unveiled on social media Wednesday, whoever runs their accounts did, uh, not see it. Behind the black falcon graphic that began appearing on the football team’s helmets in the 1960s was a new background — a flag of red, tan, black and white vertical... The post ‘Heil’ mary? New Atlanta Falcons logo inspires Nazi comparisons appeared first on The Forward .
‘Heil’ Mary? New Atlanta Falcons logo inspires Nazi comparisons (Oct 22, 2026 07:11 PM - Forward.com – All)
If there was something off about the logo the Atlanta Falcons unveiled on social media Wednesday, whoever runs their accounts did, uh, not see it. Behind the black falcon graphic that began appearing on the football team’s helmets in the 1960s was a new background — a flag of red, tan, black and white vertical... The post ‘Heil’ Mary? New Atlanta Falcons logo inspires Nazi comparisons appeared first on The Forward .
Netanyahu’s Torah exemption pledge highlights election stakes (Oct 22, 2026 05:49 PM - Forward.com – All)
Sometimes a statement can contain multitudes, or at least provide a crystallizing moment in an election campaign. So it was when Benjamin Netanyahu, while criticizing the detention of about 40 Haredi draft evaders by military police at Ben-Gurion Airport this week, declared in a radio interview: “We need to protect the world of the Torah... The post Netanyahu’s Torah exemption pledge highlights election stakes appeared first on The Forward .
Netanyahu’s Torah exemption pledge highlights election stakes (Oct 22, 2026 05:49 PM - Forward.com – All)
Sometimes a statement can contain multitudes, or at least provide a crystallizing moment in an election campaign. So it was when Benjamin Netanyahu, while criticizing the detention of about 40 Haredi draft evaders by military police at Ben-Gurion Airport this week, declared in a radio interview: “We need to protect the world of the Torah... The post Netanyahu’s Torah exemption pledge highlights election stakes appeared first on The Forward .
Tidbits: A publishing firm for Jewish writers excluded by mainstream publishers (Oct 22, 2026 03:32 PM - Forward.com – All)
Tidbits is a Forverts feature of easy news briefs in Yiddish that you can listen to or read, or both! If you read the article and don’t know a word, just click on it and the translation appears. Listen to the report here: אין ניו־יאָרק איז די וואָך געגרינדט געוואָרן אַ פֿאַרלאַג פֿאַר ייִדישע און... The post Tidbits: A publishing firm for Jewish writers excluded by mainstream publishers appeared first on The Forward .
In ‘Fatherland,’ Thomas Mann finds a Germany divided (Oct 22, 2026 02:00 PM - Forward.com – All)
Speaking at the Library of Congress, just before the end of World War II, Thomas Mann insisted “that there are not two Germanies, a bad and a good one, but only one whose best qualities were perverted by devilish cunning into evil.” Two years later, in 1947, he would publish Doctor Faustus, a meditation on... The post In ‘Fatherland,’ Thomas Mann finds a Germany divided appeared first on The Forward .
This deli serves ham and calls itself Jewish. New Jersey says it’s not kosher. (Oct 22, 2026 09:58 AM - Forward.com – All)
The Kibitz Room in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia, serves shrimp salad. It also has a ham sandwich, and its doors are open on Saturdays. So the people who run it were surprised this month when a state investigator walked in carrying a notice saying a deli with a “Jewish cheesesteak” on... The post This deli serves ham and calls itself Jewish. New Jersey says it’s not kosher. appeared first on The Forward .
AIPAC to halt direct campaign contributions and candidate endorsements (Oct 22, 2026 08:56 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — The American Israel Political Affairs Committee has announced that it will no longer make direct campaign contributions or endorse candidates, instead focusing on mobilizing individual donors. The pro-Israel lobby disclosed the change in a letter to its members on Wednesday, as first reported by Jewish Insider. The letter stated that the lobby would... The post AIPAC to halt direct campaign contributions and candidate endorsements appeared first on The Forward .
The missing ‘peace’ in Israel’s election campaign (Oct 22, 2026 08:54 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — JERUSALEM – There’s a short video clip that’s been circulating on Israeli social media channels in recent days showing a massive crowd of jubilant young Israelis at a music festival singing along on repeat to “The Song of Peace.” The scene, using an anthem forever associated with assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and... The post The missing ‘peace’ in Israel’s election campaign appeared first on The Forward .
In final Michigan Senate debate, Rogers says Jewish Democrats ‘afraid’ of El-Sayed (Oct 22, 2026 08:51 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Rogers of Michigan said during the race’s final televised debate Wednesday that some “Jewish Democrats” are “literally afraid” of his opponent, Democrat Abdul El-Sayed,. “We’re doing exceptionally well with Jewish Democrats who are literally afraid,” the former congressman said during the Detroit debate, which was hosted by local... The post In final Michigan Senate debate, Rogers says Jewish Democrats ‘afraid’ of El-Sayed appeared first on The Forward .
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