The Forward Jewish Culture Fran Drescher Doesn’t Mind Being Single Because She Has A ‘Friend With Benefits’ forward.com - By Cnaan Liphshiz (JTA) — Fran Drescher, the star of the 1990s sitcom “The Nanny,” says she loves her gay former husband, but some of her needs are met by a “friend …
The Forward Jewish Culture Social media marks Holocaust Remembrance Day forward.com - By Irene Connelly In a social media campaign organized by the World Jewish Congress, Holocaust survivors shared their stories and encouraged others to post pictures to …
The Forward Anti-Semitism Pride And Anxiety: 23 American Jews on choosing to wear their Jewishness forward.com - Forward Staff A middle-aged man tattooed a Star of David on his forearm. A secular man put on a kippah outside of synagogue — for the first time in his life. An …
The Forward Barneys New York Is Beloved NYC Grocery Store ‘Fairway’ Really Closing? forward.com - Michael Kaminer First, there was Barneys New York, whose liquidation continues after an August filing. Now, yet another Jewish-born dynasty might shut its doors: …
The Forward Jewish Culture Economist Joseph Stiglitz goes analog to rebut Trump at Davos in real time forward.com - By Irene Connelly Addressing a packed auditorium in the World Economic Forum in Davos, on the first morning of the conference, President Trump painted a rosy picture …
The Forward Jewish Culture Pot Roast Then & Now: A tale of Jewish mothers and daughters forward.com - Jane Ziegelman and Liza Schoenfein What can a Jewish cookbook from 1946 tell us about the 21st-century Jewish-American experience? Liza Schoenfein, the Forward’s senior food writer, …
The Forward Jewish Culture Pot Roast Then & Now: A tale of Jewish mothers and daughters forward.com - Jane Ziegelman and Liza Schoenfein What can a Jewish cookbook from 1946 tell us about the 21st-century Jewish-American experience? Liza Schoenfein, the Forward’s senior food writer, …
The Forward Jewish Culture Meet The Israeli Performance Artist Critiquing Americans’ Obsession With Money forward.com - By Michael Kaminer Who would pay a million dollars for a briefcase stuffed with just half of that? Dressed in a star-spangled blazer and bow tie, Capitalist Man had been …
The Forward Cream Cheese The best bagel (is in Montreal?) forward.com - David Sax I ate a bagel for breakfast this morning. It was a St. Viateur bagel from Montreal, shipped to the supermarket in Toronto, sliced, frozen, and …
The Forward Icon version of the Flipboard logoCream Cheese It’s official: Expert says best bagel is whatever you grew up with forward.com - David Sax I ate a bagel for breakfast this morning. It was a St. Viateur bagel from Montreal, shipped to the supermarket in Toronto, sliced, frozen, and …
The Forward Cream Cheese For National Bagel Day, Forward staffers share their favorite spots forward.com - Irene Connelly Bagels: we wait on line for them, we spend entire Sundays enjoying them, we gobble them on the subway in our darkest hours while strangers wrinkle …
The Forward Jewish Culture Where’s Waldo? A striped t-shirt becomes an American Jewish sensation forward.com - By Irene Connelly The Siyum HaShas — a nationwide celebration that ends each cycle of Talmud study — occurs only once every seven and a half years. So when Brooklyn …
The Forward Jewish Culture When will Jewish delis pivot to sustainable lox? forward.com - Michael Kaminer “Our Lox Is Getting a Facelift,” trumpeted the e-mail from Steingold’s Deli (http://www.steingoldsdeli.com) in Chicago. “We’re partnering with Skuna …
The Forward Judaism When the tuition bills add up, some Orthodox consider aliyah forward.com - Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt The numbers were not adding up for a New Jersey Orthodox couple with five children in their early 30s. She is a lawyer, he works in tech — two …
The Forward Hanukkah The Hoops That Jewish Converts Have To Jump Through Are Getting Impossibly High forward.com - Bethany Mandel When my husband and I moved to a new area, we were eager to become involved in the Jewish community. After a few months of testing out a new …
The Forward James Mangold Timothée Chalamet to portray Bob Dylan in upcoming biopic forward.com - By Irene Connelly When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, he didn’t know that the greatest accolade of his life still lay ahead — the honor of being …
The Forward Candles How to light a Yahrzeit Candle forward.com - Irene Connelly Judaism provides several rituals to guide families through the difficult days and months after a loved one’s death. During shiva, the first seven days …
The Forward Talmud Thousands Gather To Celebrate Women’s Talmud Study In Jerusalem forward.com - Ilana Blumberg “Come in”: There’s Room Now for Women Too in Talmud Learning Ilana Blumberg On a cold night in Jerusalem, more than 3300 women and men gathered for …
The Forward Talmud Despite his ALS - he manages to study Talmud daily forward.com - Rukhl Schaechter Here in New York, we‘ve seen a steady stream of coverage about the Siyum Hashas celebration held at Metlife stadium this past week — marking the …
The Forward Talmud In Jerusalem, Haredi Women Venture Into Talmud forward.com - Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt JERUSALEM, ISRAEL — The scene: A classroom in a building next to Jerusalem’s Great Synagogue. About twenty women in headscarves and wigs sit poring …
The Forward Karlie Kloss Karlie Kloss’s Kushner Connections Come Under Fire on Project Runway forward.com - By Irene Connelly On Thursday, our favorite new member of the tribe Karlie Kloss was called to answer for her political connections on the literal runway. The …
The Forward Talmud Meet The Feminist Artist Bringing Talmud to Instagram forward.com - Irene Connelly One afternoon on the London Underground, Jacqueline Nicholls found her eye drawn to a mother and teenage daughter sitting across from her. Leaning …
The Forward Zac Efron Zac Efron Hospitalized For Typhoid While Filming Reality Show ‘Killing Zac Efron’ forward.com - By Irene Connelly While filming an shoot for ominously-titled reality TV show ‘Killing Zac Efron’ in Papua New Guinea, real-life star Zac Efron was hospitalized with a …
The Forward Ethiopia It’s Time To Take Off Our ‘Safety’ Baseball Caps — And Reveal Our Kippot On The Street forward.com - Neal H. Brodsky I am sitting at my brother’s dining room table in suburban New Jersey wearing a pale grey-blue driving cap. It’s the one I use to keep my head warm …
The Forward Judaism When Terror Strikes In A Modern-Day Shtetl forward.com - Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt And the next morning, residents of the Forshay neighborhood walk around with wide, unbelieving eyes. Let me tell you something about this quiet, …
The Forward Hanukkah Eight Hanukkah Sweaters To Keep You Cozy All Winter forward.com - Irene Connelly I’ve long thought that, if indeed there is a War on Christmas, Christmas sweaters are proof enough that Jews are losing. For every boring dreidel …
The Forward Need a Last Minute Gift? A Very Forward Guide to Hanukkah Gifts forward.com - Irene Connelly No idea what to get your brother-in-law for Hanukkah? Looking for a last-minute gift for that dinner party you forgot about? We’ve got you covered. …
The Forward The Power Of Grating Potatoes This Hanukkah forward.com - Stacey Pfeffer There it stood on my quartz countertop. I wanted to put it away tucked neatly away in a drawer, or push it towards the back of my cabinet in the land …
The Forward Beating The Odds (Sponsored) forward.com - Forward Staff Helene Karlin knew something wasn’t right. It was the early ‘90s, and at 7 weeks old, her third daughter, Lindsay, wasn’t developing the same as her …
