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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Gaza aid distribution effort revamped amid chaos, killings and confusion

1 day ago | forward.com | Ben Sales

( JTA) - The new aid system in Gaza suspended at least some activity for a second day on Thursday as Israel shifted operations amid chaos at distribution sites that has included deadly shootings. The shift has included empowering and arming rivals to Hamas to play a role in aid distribution, Israeli news organizations reported on Thursday.
Israel may head to elections as haredi Orthodox parties rebel over army conscription

2 days ago | forward.com | Ben Sales

( JTA) - Israel's government may fall soon as one of its haredi Orthodox factions threatens to leave because of a dispute over the military draft. Israel requires all of its Jewish citizens to enlist in the military but has carved out an exception for haredi Orthodox men in a deal dating back to the states early days.
A Jewish farmer drove 600 miles to rescue a century-old synagogue. Now he's building a new one in a cornfield.

2 days ago | forward.com | Benyamin Cohen

WHITE OAK, PENNSYLVANIA - Nik Jakobs, a Jewish cowboy with a finance degree and four daughters, isn't your typical synagogue president. Then again, the synagogue he's building - from the remains of one that just closed - isn't typical either.
Committed to the Orthodox way of life, but tempted by worlds of intense sexuality

3 days ago | forward.com | Simi Horwitz

Early on in Nir Bergman's Pink Lady, Bati (Nur Fibak), a married Haredi woman and the mother of three children, is riding a city bus when she becomes aware of a dark skinned man, perhaps an Arab, eyeing her. She is at once attracted, intrigued and profoundly uncomfortable. She quickly turns away.
The two things I fear most after the horrifying attack on Jews in Boulder

4 days ago | forward.com | Emily Tamkin

I have two fears after the Sunday attack in which eight people in Boulder, Colorado, were viciously burned by a man wielding Molotov cocktails at a rally for the release of Israeli hostages still in Gaza. The first: That the people injured, including one Holocaust survivor, would not survive this. That their lives would end with this unbearable violence, being burned alive while rallying for the release of people kept in captivity.
Ben & Jerry's board denounces 'genocide in Gaza' in ice-cream maker's latest salvo against Israel

5 days ago | forward.com | Andrew Lapin

The statement comes four years after the board sparked a bitter legal battle with parent company Unilever over an earlier pledge to stop selling its products in "Occupied Palestinian Territory." It was viewed and quoted by multiple publications but had not been published on Ben & Jerry's site by Friday afternoon. "Ben & Jerry's believes in human rights and advocates for peace, and we join with those around the world who denounce the genocide in Gaza," the board said in the statements.
In America, a German-Austrian novelist hears echoes of his father's life under Nazism

5 days ago | forward.com | PJ Grisar

One of the earliest expressions of totalitarianism in German-Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann's novel The Director unfolds in a classroom. In 1930, Jakob, the son of the Expressionist auteur G.W. Pabst, is acclimating to his new school in Austria, after years of being educated in America. His teachers wear the Nazi party uniform. If a pupil speaks out in class, they're made to copy the school rules, in four longhand pages, writing against a wall in the hallway.
Texas may soon require schools to post the Ten Commandments. Meet the Jewish lawmaker fighting back.

1 week ago | forward.com | Hannah Feuer

It's not easy being the only Jewish member of the Texas state house. Rep. Jon Rosenthal, a Democrat, navigates a chamber where colleagues wear pins depicting a Christian cross overlaid with an American flag. During policy debates, Bible scripture is quoted freely. And the Republican state chair has said "there is no separation between church and state."Some Republican representatives are "boldly Christian nationalist" and "make really overt references to religion when debating law," Rosenthal said.
MIT disciplines student commencement speaker who condemned school's ties to Israel as 'complicit in genocide'

1 week ago | forward.com | Andrew Lapin

( JTA) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has barred the senior class president from further graduation events after she accused the school of aiding "genocide" in Gaza and called for the university to sever its ties to Israel during her commencement address Thursday.
Trump appoints Paul Ingrassia, staffer linked to Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate, to senior federal watchdog role

1 week ago | forward.com | Andrew Lapin

( JTA) - President Donald Trump has appointed Paul Ingrassia, a right-wing attorney and onetime podcaster who has defended avowed white supremacist Nick Fuentes and worked with antisemitic influencer Andrew Tate, to a new senior role as head of the United States Office of Special Counsel. It is the second promotion this week for a federal staffer with a record involving antisemitism.