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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This Jewish New Yorker survived the Holocaust and the Hungarian Revolution, and is still helping others today

1 day ago | forward.com | Jackie Hajdenberg

( New York Jewish Week) - Susan Kalev, 80, lives in a two-bedroom apartment in Washington Heights. On a sunny spring day, you'll find her three cats zooming around her apartment, surrounded by gallery walls of photos documenting Kalev's long and full life. From the relative idyll of her uptown home, Kalev, a Holocaust survivor, can still remember the sounds of the Russians' rifles not far behind her family as they fled into the woods from their home in Budapest.
Will the next pope be good for the Jews?

1 day ago | forward.com | Mira Fox

It's hard to guess what direction the Catholic church might go after the death of Pope Francis Monday morning. Francis was a liberalizing changemaker in the church, speaking out - sometimes very sharply - about climate change, immigration and LGBTQ+ acceptance. But he was divisive as well, cracking down on the growing "tradcath" movement so strictly that .
Trump would eliminate antisemitism envoy in proposed State Department overhaul

2 days ago | forward.com | Arno Rosenfeld

A proposed Trump administration plan to drastically overhaul the State Department would eliminate the most prominent job in the federal government fighting antisemitism and replace it with a "Jewish affairs coordinator" focused on Israel.
Pope Francis' final speech called for ceasefire and hostage release in Gaza war

3 days ago | forward.com | Philissa Cramer

( JTA) - In his final public speech, delivered less than 24 hours before his death, Pope Francis addressed the war in Gaza, expressing sympathy for the Palestinian people and calling for an end to the war that includes the release of Israeli hostages. Francis made the comments in his annual Easter speech, which an archbishop delivered while Francis was seated on the the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. His comments about the war in Gaza, which Israel and Hamas have been fighting since Oct.
Shackled, imprisoned and subjected to false accusations, Kilmar Abrego Garcia recalls the fate of Captain Alfred Dreyfus

3 days ago | forward.com | Robert Zaretsky

On the morning of Oct. 15, 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a staff member of the French Army's High Command, was at home with his wife and two young children when he was unexpectedly and summarily requested to report to the Ministry of War. Upon arriving, the unsuspecting Dreyfus was accused of treason. The evidence? The notorious bordereau, a wrinkled leaf of paper revealing French military plans, found in a trash basket at the German embassy in Paris.
In Pope Francis, a voice for interfaith dialogue and against antisemitism

3 days ago | forward.com | Benjamin Ivry

For Pope Francis, who has died at the age of 88, one of the most intriguing personal brushes with Yiddishkeit occurred when he was 42. Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Argentina on Dec. 17, 1936, the future Pope was psychoanalyzed by an unnamed Jewish woman psychiatrist in his homeland. As leader of the Jesuit order in Argentina, he revealed in a book of conversations with French sociologist Dominique Wolton, he experienced anxiety when smuggling refugees out of the country, ruled by a dictatorship.
Is 'New Absolute Bagel' real? A sign stirs fretful optimism on the Upper West Side.

6 days ago | forward.com | Jackie Hajdenberg

( New York Jewish Week) - It was a Passover miracle: A sign for a bagel shop had risen again outside the storefront vacated abruptly in December by Absolute Bagels. "Reopen: New Absolute Bagel," reads a banner outside the shuttered Broadway store. An image of a stack of two bagels, cream cheese spilling out their sides, appeared next to the words. "Is it real? We need some investigative journalism!" one Upper West Side reader texted our staff as he passed the sign this week.
Remembering Hersh Goldberg-Polin at his family's Passover retreat

6 days ago | forward.com | Benyamin Cohen

CLAYTON, GEORGIA - On a blue-sky Thursday in the north Georgia mountains, Camp Ramah Darom's canoes rested and pickleballs sat idle as more than 200 people filed into the sanctuary overlooking the lake to remember Hersh Goldberg-Polin - son, brother, camper, counselor - killed by Hamas after nearly 11 months in captivity. This Passover was the first without him.
Trump scuttled Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities

1 week ago | forward.com | Philissa Cramer

By Philissa Cramer April 17, 2025( JTA) - As Donald Trump took office in January, many who have kept a close eye on Israel's efforts to blunt Iran's nuclear ambitions believed the timing was ripe for a decisive strike. Iran had been deeply weakened by Israel's direct attacks and wars with its proxies, and Trump was seen as open to being convinced to provide the crucial U.S. support that would be needed to pull off an attack on Iran's fortified nuclear sites.
Trump is exploiting campus antisemitism, not fighting it

1 week ago | forward.com | Nora Berman

Deputy Opinion Editor Nora Berman April 16, 2025There's one thing that unites the university presidents that have so far prominently stood up against President Donald Trump's ongoing assault on higher education: They're Jewish. Clearly, some people are feeling the "hell no, Pharaoh" energy more than others this Passover. Start with Harvard University's president, Alan Garber, who on Monday issued the most forceful rebuke yet to Trump's efforts to establish federal control over campuses.