A few years ago, I bought my father a T-shirt printed with the Yiddish words “Shver tsu zayn a yid”…
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THE SCHNECKEN AT Edith’s, a Jewish deli in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, gleam with sugary glaze or drip with buttery icing, depending…
The warnings come every day: Israeli democracy is in danger. Since Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government announced plans to undermine the…
I know I should be horrified by the revelations about George Santos, the representative-elect from Queens who seems to have…
For years, there has been a growing gap between Israelis and American Jews when it comes to Israel’s policies toward…
The first and only time that Alex Edelman’s family celebrated Christmas, their tree was topped not by a star, but…
Genealogy websites cited by The Forward suggest that Mr. Santos’s grandparents were born in Brazil, and were not “Holocaust refugees,”…
In the winter of 2021, not long after President Biden’s inauguration, I walked into a small house party while another…
Two new films remind us that the experiences of U.S. Jews don’t often get the Hollywood treatment. When they do,…
A week of reporting from Israel and the West Bank has left me feeling that the prospect for a two-state…