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Changing Times, Changing Letters, and Moving Forward

Abraham Cahan loved Yiddish, but he was not afraid of change. He urged his readers to be less religious, and to ...

Finding a Story to Tell

I did not mean to fall in love with the Bintel Brief letters. I grew up Jewish in the New York suburbs ...

The Beginnings of A Bintel Brief

In January 1906, a woman wrote a letter to a Yiddish daily newspaper called the  Forward , to complain that her watch ...

Yes, Alabama Has a Jewish Film Festival – And More

Below is an excerpt from a recent article in the Jewish Daily Forward entitled “The Best Jewish Film Festivals of ...

A Reason to Kvell Today

The Forward 50Keshet’s Executive Director, Idit Klein, has been named to the Forward 50, The Jewish Daily Forward‘s annual list of ...

Talking with Naomi Zeveloff, editor of the Forward’s transgender and Jewish series

Yesterday we introduced you to the great new series on transgender Jewish identity published by the Forward. It’s the first comprehensive ...

The Forward Features RJM!

This week, The Jewish Daily Forward featured our very own Rachel Jarman Myers in a piece about her work sharing ...

The Disappearing Southern Jew

Every few years, national reporters rediscover the phenomenon of the “disappearing southern Jew.” This week, Seth Berkman of the Forward ...