So for the last couple months Ziegler rabbinical school has been hinting at cutting ties with Conservative Judaism Now the school has paused fall admissions Faculty say they haven't been told what's going on "The future is foggy," one told me forward.com/fast-forward/808285

I appreciated the candor from AJ Edelman. Story's full of great quotes like this. forward.com/news/sports/...

Just pubbed @forward.com – an exclusive interview with AJ Edelman, the Israeli Olympic bobsled captain, who pulled no punches defending the ill-fated switch that got his team disqualified. Read here: forward.com/news/sports/...

Just pubbed @forward.com: I spoke with Nithya Raman about her run for mayor of Los Angeles, her engagement with the Jewish community in her district and how voters should read her breaking with DSA on Israel. Gift link! forward.com/news/806134/...

Just pubbed @forward.com: I spoke with Nithya Raman about her run for mayor of Los Angeles, her engagement with the Jewish community in her district and how voters should read her breaking with DSA on Israel. Gift link! forward.com/news/806134/...

TOMORROW NIGHT: I'm speaking about how to fight authoritarianism locally at a great *virtual* event with @forward.com and the Jewish Partnership for LA With amazing copanelists – Pastor Eddie Anderson, Rudy Espinoza, and Marjorie Gilberg, moderated by the Forward's @louiskeene.bsky.social Join us!

I went into the heart of Lakewood to get the Jewish case against A.I. forward.com/news/800466/...

Here's a thread of some Dan McQuade blogs that we really loved 🦅 The Garden State Parkway’s Jon Bon Jovi rest stop is playing fast and loose with famous quotes: defector.com/the-garden-s...

Interviewed someone who's against the Nazi/Anne Frank ICE comparisons. Except he's also the only Orthodox rabbi I'm aware of who signed a letter against ICE. His perspective is important so I'm sharing it here. Rabbi Max Davis on Minneapolis, ICE and his shul: forward.com/news/800628/...

It's one thing when opposing Anne Frank comparisons is the only way you're engaging with this topic at all, and it can feel like that is typically the case. Not here. (Story is also a good reminder that Orthodox Judaism contains a range of political views!)

Interviewed someone who's against the Nazi/Anne Frank ICE comparisons. Except he's also the only Orthodox rabbi I'm aware of who signed a letter against ICE. His perspective is important so I'm sharing it here. Rabbi Max Davis on Minneapolis, ICE and his shul: forward.com/news/800628/...

Oh wow: Major U.S. Cardinal (Tobin of Newark) is calling for Catholics to urge lawmakers to vote against ICE funding. Via @ncronline.bsky.social

What the OU is posting on social media today...

Some interesting comments in here on the future of Ziegler rabbinical school from Jay Sanderson, president of AJU, who implies he wants to eventually make the Conservative seminary "multi-denominational." forward.com/fast-forward...

Cool to see Jennifer Venditti nominated for Best Casting for her work on Marty Supreme, which included this chap:

Every major Jewish denomination other than Orthodoxy has signed a joint letter condemning "in the strongest terms" the violent immigration enforcement by ICE/DHS in Minneapolis and beyond. Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist orgs signed. Orthodox Union + Agudah did not.

this is cooler than the robert pattinson cameo imo

Just announced: I'll be speaking with the author of "American Reich," a new book about the Blaze Bernstein case and the post-Trump neo-Nazi revival, for a Zoom conversation on Feb. 4. Really looking forward to this. Register here: events.zoom.us/ev/AvnPVbYQR...

just did a very fun interview that i'm excited to share with yall soon!

More info on Mississippi synagogue arson suspect Stephen Spencer Pittman: Quit college baseball, launched "scripture-based fitness" website, shared antisemitic meme on Instagram the day of the attack. forward.com/news/796632/...

I think the graffiti ghost towers are an artistic triumph, I hope they live forever, and I'm so thrilled that this art piece exists (and close to me at least for now).

Here's the FBI affidavit on Stephen Spencer Pittman, the suspect charged in the arson of Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Miss. Pittman called Beth Israel the "synagogue of Satan" in an interview following his arrest, authorities said. (1/2) forward.com/fast-forward...

“Renee Good—a good person, a decent person, a mother, someone who cared about her community and standing up—may the loss of her life not be in vain. May her memory inspire us to continue to peacefully stand up for what is right.” -Rabbi Eva Cohen of Minneapolis religionnews.com/2026/01/09/p...

really good forward.com/news/796129/...

One year after the Palisades fire, I spoke to the people of Kehillat Israel, a synagogue where 250 families lost their homes and another 250 were displaced. Most haven't even begun rebuilding. "We haven’t been able to fully move on," one rabbi told me. forward.com/news/795253/...

brought back the old newsletter for a dispatch from the clippers' calendar year of suck. long live unstatable! unstatable.substack.com/p/the-clippe...

I wrote about the unverified rumor spreading online that slain MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was Jewish and targeted for pro-Israel views. "Every Jew must arm themselves,” one influencer echoing the claim said to 250,000 followers. Loureiro's friends say he wasn't Jewish. forward.com/fast-forward...

will pay top dollar for these. who can help me

good story here from Hannah Feuer forward.com/news/787324/...

In brighter news, Danny Wolf is having fun out there. forward.com/news/sports/...

Scoop: OneTable, the Jewish nonprofit that funds and helps organizes thousands of Shabbat dinners every year, laid off a quarter of its staff today, citing fundraising headwinds. forward.com/news/787039/...

The ADL, New York's Jewish Federation and its Board of Rabbis declined to congratulate Zohran Mamdani in their statements acknowledging his victory. You know who did though? Bill Ackman! forward.com/news/781402/...

blogged about sandy koufax, clayton kershaw and a full-circle moment all of us deserved to see: forward.com/news/sports/...

I hate to be such an old crank but there was literally a time where there was zero gambling content on sports television and now it is like 40% of the programming and anywhere from 5-30% of the actual screen space

When there’s a Jewish angle, it’s never just a poker game. forward.com/news/sports/...

with "nobody wants this" returning to netflix today for season 2, i blogged about one giveaway of its hallmark-channel sensibility: forward.com/culture/7777...

I'm pleased to learn that the Clippers, tired of fending off allegations related to previous jersey sponsor Aspiration, have partnered with a new, totally uncontroversial entity going forward. www.forbes.com/sites/shaney...

Is there a prefix that includes all kinds of "-washing"s (pinkwashing, greenwashing, sportswashing etc)? The best I can come up with is culturewashing but it's not exactly right.

I tried to explain why some in the Orthodox Jewish community have been treating Charlie Kirk like mashiach. forward.com/news/770722/...

Sometimes you write a story hoping it will change the world. Sometimes you just want to coin a term in the headline. forward.com/fast-forward...

Sometimes you write a story hoping it will change the world. Sometimes you just want to coin a term in the headline. forward.com/fast-forward...

I'm proud of @forward.com's coverage of the Charlie Kirk assassination and will thread a few of the follow-ups we have published so far on the national news story. From @benyamincohen.bsky.social on perceptions of Kirk as a "martyr" and that debate's Jewish implications: forward.com/news/769333/...

This morning's palate cleanser is from @forward.com's Olivia Haynie, on the Jewishness of 'The Golden Girls': forward.com/culture/film...

There are now Charlie Kirk memorial yarmulkes being advertised on Instagram, underscoring the beatification of the right-wing activist in a large segment of the Jewish community.

“It feels important for people to show what their politics are, especially as Jews, when the narrative is that Judaism is Zionism, Zionism is Judaism & Jews have loyalty to the state of Israel. I fully get why people want to say, like, No, not me, though.” Via @louiskeene.bsky.social @forward.com

very clear that these ai enhance tools are a scourge

I wrote about the growth, and growing pains, of traditional-egalitarian Judaism: forward.com/news/767221/...

On Thursday, the Holocaust Museum LA posted “'Never again' can’t only mean never again for Jews” on instagram. It’s notable because they would be recognizing the genocide in Gaza. Anyway, they pulled it down today saying, “we promise to do better.”

I blogged about Joe Sanberg, the prison-bound social justice entrepreneur at the center of the scandal embroiling the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard. This marks (I think) a professional first for me – the reasonable inclusion of a Getty photo I appear in. Click to see it! forward.com/fast-forward...

leave chris martin alone forward.com/fast-forward...