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/...

A new safety policy at an Arizona cemetery requires families to leave before a casket is lowered into the ground. Jewish clergy say the policy interferes with a core religious ritual, and one local rabbi is preparing a lawsuit.

Unlike some people whose names are Bret, I don’t think the answer is to give up on the fight against antisemitism and only invest in Jews, but instead to think more about how antisemitism interacts with the rest of society. For @forward.com forward.com/opinion/8072...

In the aftermath of Oct. 7, many rush to paint the pro-Palestinian movement in the U.S. as supporters of Hamas terrorism — often relying on tenuous claims about slogans and political platforms that didn't hold up to scrutiny. 🧵

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/...

“The Muppets’ philosophy of meeting the outrageous with the outrageous, the unhinged with the unhinged, and the grouchy with the grouchy has its lessons for us humans, too,” writes Talya Zax.

“I want you to open [the Torah] and read it and come up with a question and come up with an answer,” explained one rabbi concerned with using AI as a shortcut to religious enlightenment. “It’s not just end result. It’s the process.”

Our intrepid political reporter @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social, profiled this weekend by @nytimes.com.

@alykatzz.bsky.social's first essay as @forward.com EIC: "It’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was and will be — that I arrive as your new editor-in-chief, at a moment like so many before when the Jewish world (and the world, period) urgently needs unflinching journalism."

“Oliver! may be the most Jewish musical ever written that refuses to admit as much, and watching Simon Lipkin’s sly, buoyant portrayal of Fagin on London’s West End recently, I felt a jolt of something I hadn’t expected: Home.”

Rabbi Levi Azimov, who leads Chabad of South Brunswick in New Jersey, said the suspect, who has not yet been identified by police, attended a Purim service at Chabad in March of last year. He visited there twice more, seeking spiritual guidance, Azimov told @forward.com.

For @forward.com, I wrote about Anne Frank, ICE, and what we risk in making - and in refusing to ever make - comparisons forward.com/opinion/8009...

“Anybody who’s in this area will tell you that if he belonged to a Klan branch and did all that, then you got it, right? But if he played baseball? Went to St. Joe’s? I mean for all intents and purposes that’s an all-American boy.”

For @forward.com, I wrote about Soros (surprise) and Orbán, Trump, antisemitism, xenophobia, Hungary, and us forward.com/opinion/7986...

My latest for @forward.com is a bit of a change of pace, looking back at the history of A Bintel Brief, one of the oldest advice columns in the US, which is celebrating its 120th birthday today, and how the advice it dispensed to Eastern European Jewish immigrants in 1906 still resonates today.

Thx to @forward.com PJ Grisar for citing @universityofkansas.bsky.social Jewish Studies chair Samantha Cooper, whose expertise is involvement of NY Jews in opera. forward.com/forward-news...

Three days ago he reposted an animated video of a woman seeing a Jewish caricature holding moneybags and exclaiming, “A Jew in our backyard!” It was unclear whether he posted the video before or after the arson attack, which occurred Jan. 10 at around 3 a.m. local time.

As smoke filled the Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center one year ago, Cantor Ruth Berman Harris searched for her husband through the darkness, calling out to make sure the Torahs were being carried out. By night’s end, the building was destroyed, but all 13 Torahs were safe. 🧵

For those of you who've seen Marty Supreme, how did audiences react during the honey scene? @forward.com editorial fellow Olivia Heynie explores the disconnect between Josh Safdie's intent and how many viewers have responded to it.

For my last piece of 2025, I wrote about reading Arnošt Lustig and hoping against hope for @forward.com forward.com/opinion/7938...

There's nothing like archival ads from early 20th-century editions of Forverts to bring out the Yiddishe research nerd in all of us. But now we want to know what this musical pin looked like!

As Commissioner Chadwick was wrapping up the commission meeting, he wished the group a Merry Christmas, and Commissioner Waldrop whispered, “We haven’t said ‘Happy Hanukkah.'” “No, we don’t say that,” Chadwick replied, as Waldrop’s mouth fell agape.

"Despite his clear love of the Jewish Shabbat, he cannot help but reject it because it’s not Christian. And this is key to his argument: At its roots, Kirk’s praise of Shabbat is more concerned with convincing his readers to embrace Christianity than it is with learning from Judaism."

“I understand that the gentiles who are lighting their own menorahs as a show of solidarity mean well but that’s not for y’all to be doing. Judaism is a closed practice,” one user posted. “Get the circumcision first, then we’ll talk.”

I wrote a thing for @forward.com about reconnecting with family that I had presumed did not exist because of the Holocaust, and how a Bondi Beach veteran's pub became a place of reunion for us.

Please welcome @forward.com's incoming editor-in-chief, @alykatzz.bsky.social!

“When Jews are attacked for being Jews, and the response is muted, conditional, or delayed, the message is unmistakable. Jews may still live here, but only quietly.... We cannot and will not retreat into hiding our light. The call of this moment is simple and urgent: Light candles everywhere.”

“We have repeatedly reached out to our government, telling them that we do not feel safe. And yet, it has often felt as though these concerns are met with procedural gestures... Australian Jews do not feel that the government is taking its approach to antisemitism as seriously as it should.”

“The left often prioritizes spotlighting the urgent needs of Palestinians—rightly, and with good reason…But the de-escalation that has accompanied the current ceasefire has opened an opportunity for the Jewish left to reflect and redefine its strategy. What future, exactly, are they fighting for?"

@forward.com spoke with Marty Supreme's production designer on why they decided to feature the delivery truck in the film.

Marty Supreme goes all-in on embracing NYC Jewishness with a nice touch of nerdy historical accuracy: Left: Isaac Bashevis Singer in front of a @forward.com delivery truck outside the historic Forward Building in 1968 Right: a Forward truck designed for the movie, parked outside the same building

The latest in @benyamincohen.bsky.social's series @forward.com on small Jewish communities reflects a universal truth: baseball is always the answer. "'You don’t build the baseball diamond for them to come,' he said. 'You build it because you love baseball.'" forward.com/news/782347/...

"As the political right navigates Tucker Carlson’s recent decision to host the white supremacist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes on his podcast, one thing has become clear: There are some people in this country who are eager to pretend that antisemitism on the political right is a new issue."

“The sun may have set over our city this evening. But as Eugene Debs once said, ‘I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.’” Learn more about Eugene Debs and how @forward.com's earliest years were closely intertwined with him.

Zohran Mamdani, the 34-year-old democratic socialist whose campaign was powered by youthful energy, a surge of new voters, and a promise of unconventional change, completed his yearlong journey with a decisive victory — to be elected the 111th mayor of NYC and the first Muslim to hold the office.

I went to Germany to speak with both Jews and non-Jewish Germans who are doing the work of bringing memory culture to life — and to learn how Germany's commitment to remember the Holocaust is being strained by the post-Oct. 7 and far-right politics. Thanks to @boellus.bsky.social for their support.

It's never too early to learn some Yiddish words for witchcraft.

Happy Challahween, everyone!

New from @forward.com contributing columnist @emilyctamkin.bsky.social: "There is a meaningful risk that the election of a mayor with a record like Cuomo’s would make women feel less secure reporting harassment to those in power."

For @forward.com, I wrote about how political violence is only an issue of both sides (or the left) if you completely leave power out of your analysis forward.com/opinion/7765...

I've been lucky enough to profile/interview some of my favorite writers over the years. Here's a piece I wrote about @susanorlean.bsky.social for the @forward.com back in 2018, around the release of her dazzling "The Library Book."

In The Forward, J Street’s National Director of Communal Relations Sam Berkman writes powerfully that this is a moment for both celebration and resolve – to ensure there are no more massacres, no more hostages and no more bloodshed. Read the full piece ⬇️

"One day, when Sabrina Hakim was out for a walk with her father, he started speaking a language she could not understand. Sabrina figured he must be speaking Judeo-Kashi, a variety of Judeo-Iranian. Her father spoke this language as a child in the Iranian city of Kashan before he moved to Tehran."

"Why do we read the Book of Jonah on Yom Kippur?” asks Forward contributing columnist Sruli Fruchter. "Commentators — predictably — differ. But I believe one crucial reason is because of the book’s warning against dehumanizing others in the course of seeking our own redemption."

Please join us on Monday, October 20 at 7pm ET for a virtual event on New York City's mayoral race hosted by @forward.com. The event is free to forward members; non-members are encouraged to make a donation. Registration details below.

At least 300 students at Northwestern University were barred from registering for classes this month after refusing to watch a video about antisemitism that protesters say ignores Palestinian perspectives and “ostracizes anti-Zionist Jews.” But what exactly is in the video? 🧵

One of our readers recently wrote to our Bintel Brief advice column on interfaith burial. "My wife is not Jewish, and even though we’re both in our late 20s, I’m already thinking about the problem of Jewish burial. My wife is not officially converting, but we plan to raise our kids Jewish...."

Jared Kushner, alongside Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, met with Netanyahu twice in the past week — including on Sunday at the prime minister’s hotel in New York, according to Israeli and American officials.

"Like a broken clock that is right twice a day, President Donald Trump appears to have figured out that Israel may move to annex parts of the West Bank, and that this would be a very bad idea,” writes @forward.com columnist @dan-perry.bsky.social.

"There is no question, of course, that the war has changed the Jewish community, especially in the United States…. But what about Judaism as a religion?" writes @forward.com contributing columnist @jaymichaelson.bsky.social.