Forward

The Forward (Yiddish: פֿאָרווערטס‎, romanized: Forverts), previously called The Jewish Daily Forward, is a news organization serving the Jewish-American community. Established in 1897, it began as a daily socialist newspaper in Yiddish. In 1990, it introduced an English-language weekly. Today, The Forward has transitioned into a digital platform, focusing on online news. In 2016, the Yiddish edition shifted from a bi-weekly newspaper to a monthly magazine, and the English version made a similar change in 2017. Both magazines were published until 2019.

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Israel's Eurovision contestant, Yuval Raphael, says she's focused on the music, not the protests

1 day ago | forward.com | Philissa Cramer

( JTA) - If she found it unnerving to see someone make a throat-slitting gesture at her as she walked the carpet at the first event in the Eurovision song contest, Yuval Raphael wasn't letting on earlier this week.
Hamas releases Edan Alexander, last living American hostage, to Red Cross

2 days ago | forward.com | Ben Sales

( JTA) - This is a developing story. Hamas has released Edan Alexander, an American-Israeli citizen, back to Israel under a deal reached with the United States. The release, conducted Monday evening in Gaza, may inaugurate a new phase in the hostage crisis that has consumed Israel since Hamas attacked on Oct. 7, 2023, taking 250 captives and opening the war in Gaza. Israeli media reported that at 6:30 local time, Hamas said it had transferred Alexander to the Red Cross after 584 days in captivity.
In Tenafly, NJ, a crowd awaits the release of local son Edan Alexander from Hamas captivity

2 days ago | forward.com | Philissa Cramer

( JTA) - The call went out over email, text and WhatsApp on Sunday night: Come to Huyler Park in downtown Tenafly at 5 a.m. to celebrate - Edan Alexander was coming home. Born and raised by Israeli parents in Tenafly, Alexander, 21, joined the Israel Defense Forces after graduating from Tenafly High School. He was taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, while serving near the Gaza border, along with 250 others.
Hamas and Trump say Edan Alexander to be freed from Gaza after US negotiates release

3 days ago | forward.com | Philissa Cramer

"I am grateful to all those involved in making this monumental news happen," Trump said in a post on Truth Social late Sunday. "This was a step taken in good faith towards the United States and the efforts of the mediators - Qatar and Egypt - to put an end to this very brutal war and return ALL living hostages and remains to their loved ones. Hopefully this is the first of those final steps necessary to end this brutal conflict.
Huckabee denies rift between Netanyahu and Trump as US actions in Middle East appear to leave out Israel

3 days ago | forward.com | Ben Sales

( JTA) - The U.S. ambassador to Israel denied that a rift was widening between President Donald Trump and Israel or its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, following concerns that the president was sidelining the country in his Middle East policy.
In first Sunday address, Pope Leo XIV calls for ceasefire in Gaza, release of hostages

3 days ago | forward.com | Philissa Cramer

( JTA) - Pope Leo XIV spoke directly about Gaza in his first Sunday address since being elected on Thursday, marking his first public comments as pope about the 19-month-old war between Israel and Hamas there. "I am deeply pained by what is happening in the Gaza strip," he said, according to translations of the speech, delivered in Italian at the Vatican. "May a ceasefire immediately come into effect.
Margot Friedlander, German Holocaust survivor who landed a Vogue cover, dies at 103

3 days ago | forward.com | Philissa Cramer

( JTA) - Margot Friedlander, a Holocaust survivor who grew prominent in Germany after returning from the United States decades after surviving the Holocaust, has died at 103. The Margot Friedlander Foundation announced her death on Friday, just weeks after opening applications for a 25,000 euro prize to recognize efforts to fight antisemitism and promote democracy.
Police clash with pro-Palestinian protesters in Brooklyn as Columbia library takeover fallout continues

5 days ago | forward.com | Philissa Cramer

( New York Jewish Week) - Police and pro-Palestinian demonstrators clashed at Brooklyn College on Thursday, in the second major confrontation at a New York City campus in two days. Some of the confrontations, including the tasering of a man who was being arrested, took place outside the Tanger Hillel House at Brooklyn College, the center for Jewish life on campus.
Trump's approach to antisemitism at Columbia is horribly ineffective

5 days ago | forward.com | Emily Tamkin

This week, events at Columbia University offered us two reminders. The first: President Donald Trump's plans to fight antisemitism on college campuses are actually about cracking down on higher education, not about fighting antisemitism. The second: The university is deluding itself if it thinks that pretending otherwise will benefit it, or help Jewish students.
Trump's new pick for surgeon general blames the Nazis for pesticides on our food

6 days ago | forward.com | Hannah Feuer

There are many common arguments against the use of pesticides. Surgeon general nominee Casey Means has an additional one - a connection between pesticides and Nazi Germany. "Where did all these pesticides that have destroyed our life-giving soil and are creating a fragile food system, which is going to create a food crisis at some point, where did they all come from? Nazi Germany, right?" Means said on Tucker Carlson's podcast in August 2024.