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Why are we so focused on Mamdani — not Nazi-inspired ideas proliferating on the right? (Oct 31, 2025 08:50 PM - Forward.com – All)Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy for mayor of New York City has become a matter of national debate — particularly among Jews. Recently, more than 1,000 rabbis across the country signed a letter singling out Mamdani as a threat to Jewish safety under the heading, “Defending the Jewish future.” If you didn’t know better, you might think... The post Why are we so focused on Mamdani — not Nazi-inspired ideas proliferating on the right? appeared first on The Forward .
I won’t vote for Democrats who backed Mamdani. I know I’m not the only one. (Oct 31, 2025 08:31 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — There must be consequences when politicians endorse and campaign for unpalatable candidates for public office in order to court that candidate’s political base. I am just one voter, but I am ready to commit to issuing some. I am a lifelong Democrat and consider myself a centrist liberal on most issues. The last... The post I won’t vote for Democrats who backed Mamdani. I know I’m not the only one. appeared first on The Forward .
Musk created Grokipedia to counter bias, but it’s full of antisemitic and racist dog-whistles (Oct 31, 2025 05:46 PM - Forward.com – All)
Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s new online encyclopedia built by artificial intelligence, looks a lot like Wikipedia. It has similar formatting. Many of its entries are divided into the same subsections, and much of the information is the same. But when you read the entries, particularly on topics Musk has been particularly critical of, Grokipedia tells a... The post Musk created Grokipedia to counter bias, but it’s full of antisemitic and racist dog-whistles appeared first on The Forward .
As long as there are movies about Nazis, there will be movies about the art they looted (Oct 31, 2025 04:33 PM - Forward.com – All)
Early on in Pascal Bonitzer’s film Auction, Andre (Alex Lutz). a self-serving and sleazy art dealer, is placating a condescending, cruel, and racist art owner. “You have to stop at nothing for a sale,” he tells his intern. The French film vividly brings to life the deceptive and hypocritical high-stakes world of prestigious art dealers... The post As long as there are movies about Nazis, there will be movies about the art they looted appeared first on The Forward .
Zohran Mamdani: The no-yes option (Oct 31, 2025 03:35 PM - Forward.com – All)
Do you agree with Zohran Mamdani about Israel? Are you voting for him next week? Those are two different questions, and I’m going to make the case that they can have two different answers: No and Yes. First, let’s do a quick reality check that, outside the Jewish community, this is not what the upcoming... The post Zohran Mamdani: The no-yes option appeared first on The Forward .
These Jews backed Brad Lander in the primary. Are they taking his advice and voting Mamdani? (Oct 31, 2025 02:53 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — For progressive Jews in New York City, the presence on the ballot of one of their own in June’s mayoral primary offered a moment of great excitement. Brad Lander galvanized many progressive Jewish leaders, and polls found that he outperformed among Jewish voters, drawing about 20% of their first-choice votes on the ranked... The post These Jews backed Brad Lander in the primary. Are they taking his advice and voting Mamdani? appeared first on The Forward .
Ted Cruz to Jewish Republicans: Antisemitism is ‘an existential crisis in our party’ (Oct 31, 2025 02:50 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — LAS VEGAS — Ted Cruz warned of rising antisemitism on the right — and a lack of Republican voices calling it out — as he kicked off the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual summit Thursday night. The speech reiterated comments he made at a San Antonio megachurch last week, including the core message that... The post Ted Cruz to Jewish Republicans: Antisemitism is ‘an existential crisis in our party’ appeared first on The Forward .
Dating in New York after Oct. 7 was already painful. Then came Zohran Mamdani (Oct 31, 2025 11:00 AM - Forward.com – All)
I was considering getting back together with someone I dated earlier this year. When we reconnected this past summer, we hit it off again instantly. As we took in the sunset along the East River promenade, we reminisced about how easily the conversation had always flowed between us. But then, she had to ask the... The post Dating in New York after Oct. 7 was already painful. Then came Zohran Mamdani appeared first on The Forward .
NYC’s Eric Adams condemns anti-Israel art exhibit: ‘Activism is not an excuse for antisemitism’ (Oct 31, 2025 10:20 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams used his podium in City Hall Thursday to take aim at an anti-Israel art installation that appeared on Governors Island over the weekend. In a virtual address, Adams also took thinly veiled aim at Zohran Mamdani, the frontrunner to replace him after next week’s election, suggesting that... The post NYC’s Eric Adams condemns anti-Israel art exhibit: ‘Activism is not an excuse for antisemitism’ appeared first on The Forward .
How Mamdani built bridges to Jewish New Yorkers, from Williamsburg to Park Slope (Oct 31, 2025 10:17 AM - Forward.com – All)
In his quest to become the first Muslim mayor of the city that is home to the largest Jewish community in the United States, Zohran Mamdani has created a rare coalition of progressive Jews, liberal Zionists, and segments of the Hasidic community. Mamdani, a democratic socialist and critic of Israel, has been boosted by local... The post How Mamdani built bridges to Jewish New Yorkers, from Williamsburg to Park Slope appeared first on The Forward .
Heritage Foundation president stands by Tucker Carlson after host platforms antisemitism (Oct 31, 2025 10:10 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — The president of the Heritage Foundation, the leading conservative think tank, defended right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson and said the group would not cut ties with him days after Carlson hosted an interview with antisemitic influencer Nick Fuentes. Kevin Roberts also said in a video on the social network X that Christians should reject... The post Heritage Foundation president stands by Tucker Carlson after host platforms antisemitism appeared first on The Forward .
Ellison’s Oracle poised to run TikTok, raising hopes for tougher rules against antisemitism (Oct 31, 2025 10:00 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — American Jewish leaders have blamed Tiktok for allowing antisemitism to spread among young people and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently accused China of using the platform to promote anti-Israel sentiment around the world — a charge China denies. The allegations form a backdrop to the high-stakes negotiations over TikTok’s future in the... The post Ellison’s Oracle poised to run TikTok, raising hopes for tougher rules against antisemitism appeared first on The Forward .
Feminist vs. Jewish: These women say NYC’s mayoral election is forcing a painful choice (Oct 30, 2025 08:26 PM - Forward.com – All)
(New York Jewish Week) — Tracey Wells didn’t necessarily want to see Andrew Cuomo resign in disgrace as New York’s governor in 2021. “But I firmly believe that you believe women,” Wells, the owner of a recruitment firm, said, noting at the time, New York’s attorney general had substantiated sexual harassment claims from 11 women.... The post Feminist vs. Jewish: These women say NYC’s mayoral election is forcing a painful choice appeared first on The Forward .
Hundreds of thousands of haredi Jews protest in Jerusalem against Israeli military draft (Oct 30, 2025 08:12 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Hundreds of thousands of haredi Orthodox Jewish men joined a mass protest in Jerusalem on Thursday to rail against the Israeli government’s efforts to enlist yeshiva students into the military. The mass prayer demonstration, called the “Million Man March,” was organized by the leaders of Israel’s different ultra-Orthodox groups in response to a... The post Hundreds of thousands of haredi Jews protest in Jerusalem against Israeli military draft appeared first on The Forward .
Conservative students grill Vance on support for Israel at Turning Point USA event (Oct 30, 2025 08:08 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — Vice President JD Vance fielded skeptical questions about American support for Israel, including one conspiratorial remark about Judaism, from conservative college students while headlining Wednesday’s stop on the right-wing group Turning Point USA’s nationwide tour. The event, at the University of Mississippi, was a further sign of shifting priorities among young conservatives when... The post Conservative students grill Vance on support for Israel at Turning Point USA event appeared first on The Forward .
A conference about YIVO takes place in its birthplace — Vilnius (Oct 30, 2025 08:07 PM - Forward.com – All)
פֿונעם 19טן ביזן 21סטן אָקטאָבער איז אין ווילנע פֿאָרגעקומען אַ גרויסע קאָנפֿערענץ לכּבֿוד דעם 100סטן יובֿל פֿונעם ייִוואָ. איבער 25 פֿאָרשערס פֿון אַרום דער וועלט האָבן געהאַלטן לעקציעס און געלייענט רעפֿעראַטן, דער עיקר וועגן היסטאָרישע טעמעס פֿאַרבונדן מיט דער אָנגעזעענער אינסטיטוציע. אַ סך רעדנערס האָבן דערציילט וועגן די ספּעציעלע מעלות פֿון דער שטאָט ווילנע פֿאַר... The post A conference about YIVO takes place in its birthplace — Vilnius appeared first on The Forward .
A sign in my neighborhood says ‘The Holocaust is fake’ — I wish I felt surprised (Oct 30, 2025 06:48 PM - Forward.com – All)
When I saw a sign on my streetcorner in Chicago that said “The Holocaust is fake,” I immediately stopped. I had just left the pool and was on my way to shop for Shabbat. Disgusted, I brought an older neighbor to take a look. I knew he had taken down his mezuzah in fear after... The post A sign in my neighborhood says ‘The Holocaust is fake’ — I wish I felt surprised appeared first on The Forward .
Overwhelmed by the NYC mayor’s race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo? Start here (Oct 30, 2025 05:37 PM - Forward.com – All)
Just now tuning in to the New York City mayoral election or feeling utterly overwhelmed by it? As early voting is underway, and Tuesday’s election nears, here’s a look at what each mayoral candidate could mean for Jews. Start here: Mamdani, a 34-year-old self-described democratic socialist, won the Democratic mayoral primary in a major upset... The post Overwhelmed by the NYC mayor’s race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo? Start here appeared first on The Forward .
Overwhelmed by the NYC mayor’s race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo? A guide for the perplexed (Oct 30, 2025 05:37 PM - Forward.com – All)
Just now tuning in to the New York City mayoral election or feeling utterly overwhelmed by it? As early voting is underway, and Tuesday’s election nears, here’s a look at what each mayoral candidate could mean for Jews. Start here: Mamdani, a 34-year-old self-described democratic socialist, won the Democratic mayoral primary in a major upset... The post Overwhelmed by the NYC mayor’s race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo? A guide for the perplexed appeared first on The Forward .
Conflict over Mamdani is a reminder: We still can’t agree on the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism (Oct 30, 2025 05:10 PM - Forward.com – All)
With antisemitism on the rise while Israeli-Palestinian relations remain at an historic low, one question that continues to dog public discourse is whether anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism. The stakes within the Jewish community have recently increased, with the issuing of a letter signed by more than 1,000 American rabbis and cantors opposing New... The post Conflict over Mamdani is a reminder: We still can’t agree on the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism appeared first on The Forward .
A second rabbinic letter, arguing against Jewish rejections of Mamdani, enters the NYC mayor’s race (Oct 30, 2025 05:09 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — A second rabbinic letter about the New York City mayor’s race repudiating the first has drawn hundreds of signatures in the day since its launch. Titled “Jews for a Shared Future,” the new letter rejects the argument that the frontrunner in the race is unacceptable because of his opposition to Israel and contends... The post A second rabbinic letter, arguing against Jewish rejections of Mamdani, enters the NYC mayor’s race appeared first on The Forward .
How Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture kicked off a democratic crisis (Oct 30, 2025 03:33 PM - Forward.com – All)
WEIMAR, Thuringia, Germany — Walking through Weimar, Germany, the legacy of the Holocaust seems inescapable. Stolpersteine — German for “stumbling blocks” — are placed outside the homes of people killed during the Shoah, essential evidence of Erinnerungskultur, or memory culture, a national commitment to memorializing, and learning from, the Nazis’ atrocities. But this commitment is being... The post How Germany’s Holocaust remembrance culture kicked off a democratic crisis appeared first on The Forward .
The rabbinic backlash against Zohran Mamdani isn’t about Mamdani at all (Oct 30, 2025 01:42 PM - Forward.com – All)
The sheer number of letters by rabbis circulating about Zohran Mamdani’s New York City mayoral campaign is “mind numbing,” a rabbi friend texted me earlier this week. There’s the public letter decrying Mamdani, the Democratic candidate, sponsored by The Jewish Majority, which as of this writing has 1,138 signatures from rabbis, cantors and rabbinical students.... The post The rabbinic backlash against Zohran Mamdani isn’t about Mamdani at all appeared first on The Forward .
How a curator and a rabbi joined forces to keep a piece of Boston’s Jewish history alive (Oct 30, 2025 01:30 PM - Forward.com – All)
The most striking artifact in the Judaica collection at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts isn’t from Yemen or Galicia, or any other far-flung Jewish community that’s long since dispersed; it’s from Chelsea, Massachusetts. The magnificent wooden Torah ark is just shy of 12 feet tall, and until 1999 it was the centerpiece of the Orange... The post How a curator and a rabbi joined forces to keep a piece of Boston’s Jewish history alive appeared first on The Forward .
Alabama man arrested for allegedly planning attacks on synagogues (Oct 30, 2025 08:38 AM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — An Alabama man was arrested this week for allegedly planning attacks on synagogues in Alabama and surrounding states as well as public figures. Jeremy Wayne Shoemaker, 33, of Needham, Alabama, was arrested on Monday after the FBI and local agencies were alerted of “credible threats of violence” he made to local synagogues, the... The post Alabama man arrested for allegedly planning attacks on synagogues appeared first on The Forward .
A Saturday night in Portland, very close to the ICE building (Oct 30, 2025 12:04 AM - Forward.com – All)
ס׳איז געווען אַ שטילע נאַכט אין פּאָרטלאַנד, אָרעגאָן. מײַן חבֿר ברונאָ, אַ משפּחה־דאָקטער װאָס אַרבעט אויפֿן געביט פֿון עפֿנטלעכן געזונט פֿאַר דער שטאָט, האָט פּאַרקירט זײַן אױטאָ אין אַ טונקעלער גאַס אַ פּאָר בלאָקן פֿונעם „אײַס“־קאָמפּלעקס. „אײַס“ זענען די ראשי־תּיבֿות פֿון דער אַמעריקאַנער אימיגראַציע־אַגענטור, וואָס האָט זינט אָקטאָבער 2024 אַרעסטירט מער ווי 185,000 אומדאָקומענטירטע אימיגראַנטן.... The post A Saturday night in Portland, very close to the ICE building appeared first on The Forward .
Cuomo dominates Jewish vote in final Quinnipiac poll before election (Oct 29, 2025 08:14 PM - Forward.com – All)
Andrew Cuomo has consolidated all of Eric Adams’ Jewish support in the final days of the mayoral campaign, while Zohran Mamdani’s share of the Jewish vote has slipped, according to a new Quinnipiac poll, the last one before Tuesday’s election. The survey of 170 likely Jewish voters — representing 18% of the overall sample of... The post Cuomo dominates Jewish vote in final Quinnipiac poll before election appeared first on The Forward .
ADL removes ‘Protect Civil Rights’ from website as it narrows its mission amid right-wing attacks (Oct 29, 2025 07:39 PM - Forward.com – All)
(JTA) — The Anti-Defamation League has removed entirely from the “What We Do” page of its website a section called “Protect Civil Rights.” The removal eliminated a passage that read, “Our founders established ADL with the clear understanding that the fight against any one form of prejudice or hate cannot succeed without countering hate of... The post ADL removes ‘Protect Civil Rights’ from website as it narrows its mission amid right-wing attacks appeared first on The Forward .
So should I become a rabbi? (Oct 29, 2025 07:25 PM - Forward.com – All)
ווען איך קום אַרײַן אין צימער שטראָמט אַרײַן אַ האַרבסטליכט פֿון די אַרומיקע קאַטסקיל־בערג. די בלעטער אויף די ביימער אַנטפּלעקן זייער פֿילפֿאַרביקייט און דער הימל האָט נאָך נישט באַשלאָסן צי ער איז כמאַרנע, צי בלוי. אין הינטערגרונט הערט זיך דער מעלאָדישער רעפֿרען פֿון אַ ליד: „קער זיך אום, קער זיך אום.“ אויף יעדן בענקל הענגט... The post So should I become a rabbi? appeared first on The Forward .
Jews alone can’t help Cuomo pull off an upset – but they may be fueling his momentum (Oct 29, 2025 06:43 PM - Forward.com – All)
Andrew Cuomo is entering the final stretch of the New York City mayoral race with high expectations. After a bitter defeat in the Democratic primary to Zohran Mamdani in June, the political scion and former governor is betting that a different and more motivated electorate will give him a second chance. Cuomo, who is running... The post Jews alone can’t help Cuomo pull off an upset – but they may be fueling his momentum appeared first on The Forward .
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