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forward.com — 2+ hour, 30+ min ago
Mexico's Sheinbaum wore a rosary at an event. Is that kosher?
forward.com > culture...Courtesy of Claudia Sheinbaum By Sam Lin-Sommer September 29, 2023 “This woman is so fake,” the original post said.... ...Claudia Sheinbaum, the presidential candidate for Mexico’s governing Morena party, speaks to the public at an event in Torreón, Coahila, Mexico.... ...“Catholicism and Catholic symbols can convey Mexican nationalism,” said Julia Young, a historian at the Catholic University of America who studies... ...secular Jew whose grandparents are from Lithuania and Bulgaria....
forward.com — 23+ hour, 38+ min ago
What’s the difference between a $40 etrog and a $100 etrog? You’ll need to squint to find out.
forward.com > culture...We were standing on a shady corner in the heart of Pico-Robertson, the largest Orthodox neighborhood in Los Angeles, where Jacob was one of several... ...By Louis Keene September 28, 2023 The etrog was shaped like a grenade, and that was apparently a good thing.... ...He'd brought along a few friends from Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad and Cheder Menachem.... ...Louis Keene is a staff reporter at the Forward covering religion, sports and the West Coast. He can be followed on Twitter @thislouis....
forward.com — 3+ hour, 12+ min ago
What you do when your sister is being held by a terrorist cell in Iraq
forward.com...By Jodi Rudoren September 29, 2023 When Emma and Elizabeth Tsurkov were kids, they kept track of the little things they owed each other — like if... ..., who is a year older, from captivity in Iraq.... ...(Courtesy Emma Tsurkov) Elizabeth was finishing up field research in Baghdad for her Princeton dissertation on sectarianism in the Middle East when... ...Emma has focused her efforts on the United States, where Elizabeth has been a resident since starting a master’s program at University of Chicago...
forward.com — 3+ hour, 42+ min ago
News Quiz: Test your knowledge of Sukkot and Canadian scandal
forward.com > quizzes...By Samuel Breslow September 29, 2023 Samuel Breslow is the copy editor of the Forward.... ...A native New Hampshirite, he studied sociology at Pomona College and spends his free time social dancing, hiking, and volunteering on Wikipedia....
forward.com — 3+ hour, 39+ min ago
A NYC exhibit explores the etrog’s journey around the Jewish world
forward.com > fast-forward...(Courtesy the Bernard Heller Museum of Judaica) By Rachel Ringler September 29, 2023 (New York Jewish Week) — If you have never heard of an “etroger... ...,” a fanciful depiction of the fruit by Johann Christoph Volkamer, Nuremberg, 1708-14.... ...Together with Warren Klein, the curator of the Bernard Museum of Judaica at Temple Emanu-El, and Sharon Liberman Mintz, curator of Jewish art at... ...York Botanical Garden Library and the American Numismatic Society....
forward.com — 3+ hour, 48+ min ago
Flash floods put a dangerous damper on the first night of Sukkot in NYC
forward.com > fast-forward...(Philissa Cramer) By Ben Sales September 29, 2023 (New York Jewish Week) — Mark Vogel, who lives in Riverdale and runs a website about Jewish and... ...Torrential rains have fallen across the New York City area in the leadup to Sukkot, the Jewish holiday that is observed outdoors.... ...Rabbi Ethan Tucker, the president of the Hadar Institute, an egalitarian center of Jewish study based in Manhattan, also cited the passage and encouraged... ...Nina Jochnowitz, a State Senate candidate in New Jersey, cited the rabbinic idea that Sukkot is considered a time of joy, and referenced a Hasidic...
forward.com — 4+ hour, 46+ min ago
A campus LGBTQ+ group broke ties with its Hillel over Israel. Where are queer Jewish students supposed to go?...
forward.com > opinion...Rice Pride, an LGBTQ+ student group at Rice University, has formally broken ties with Houston Hillel over its Israel standards of partnership.... ...Graphic by Nora Berman By Hen Mazzig September 29, 2023 Rice Pride, a student LGBTQ+ group at Rice University, has severed ties with its school’s... ...Kenny Weiss, the executive director of Houston Hillel, noted that the two organizations have co-hosted 12 events since 2016, including “The Invisible... ...One Rice junior, Zac Ambrose, observed the human problem of this bigoted approach: “Tying Houston Hillel’s existence to the actions of the state...
forward.com — 4+ hour, 35+ min ago
In Chicago, a Black-led church and a Jewish community are addressing painful history through a Sukkot festival...
forward.com > fast-forward...community on Chicago’s North Side and a Black-led church on the West Side.... ...(Joseph Altshuler/Chicago Sukkah Design Festival) By Lindsay Eanet September 29, 2023 CHICAGO (JTA) — Earlier this month, 40 people gathered in Chicago... ...feel welcome and at home,” said Chana Haouzi, the founder of Architecture for Public Benefit.... ..., and that was a powerful conversation,” said Diana Collymore, a deacon who has been active in Lawndale Christian Community Church since 2014....
forward.com — 6+ hour, 31+ min ago
Ben Shapiro engages Elon Musk in the least Jewish debate on Jews
forward.com > opinion...Donald Trump without Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro held a debate about the Anti-Defamation League without the ADL.... ...Senior Contributing Editor Rob Eshman September 29, 2023 A day after the Republican candidates for president held a debate about former President... ...“The Anti-Defamation League is a group that was once dedicated to fighting antisemitism in a nonpartisan fashion,” said Shapiro.... ...Same with the murderer of 23 Latinos in El Paso in 2019 and Black students in Jacksonville, Florida this September....
forward.com — 7+ hour, 30+ min ago
Dianne Feinstein was tenacious and contradictory — just like American Jews
forward.com > opinion...Mayor George Moscone and supervisor (and gay rights pioneer) Harvey Milk; her 30 years of service in the Senate, where she was the architect of... ...Dianne Feinstein, who died yesterday at age 90, will be remembered for many things: Her rise to power following the assassinations of San Francisco... ...by soft-pedaling the Donald Trump presidency and the absurdly illegitimate appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, which... ...Hearst kidnapping to the Jim Jones cult's mass suicide (and murder of California Rep....