By Nathaniel Popper
For the past year, nearly 40 undocumented immigrants from Latin America have been kept in the United States to testify against their former bosses at the Agriprocessors kosher meat plant. On November 19, prosecutors announced that the charges against top boss Sholom Rubashkin, were being dropped. Read more
By Nofrat Frenkel
Medical student Nofrat Frenkel was recently arrested for wearing a tallit at the Kotel. Authorities said she was “performing a religious act that offends the feelings of others.” In this essay, Frenkel writes about her arrest. Read more
By Nathan Guttman
The latest report by the FBI contained alarming news: There were 1,013 cases of hate crimes motivated by anti-Jewish bias in 2008. But analyzing the report’s numbers demands a heavy dose of perspective. Read more
By Nathan Jeffay
Moshe Holzberg, a son of the two Chabad emissaries murdered in last November's Mumbai terror attacks, turned three in November. His recent upshiren, or traditional Jewish haircutting ceremony, brought thousands to Kfar Chabad, Israel. Read more
By Matthew E. Berger
The Jewish community of Massachusetts is large and known as one of the most politically active in the country. So, as the state’s Democrats get ready to select their replacement for the late senator Edward Kennedy, why is the Jewish voice barely heard? Read more
By Beth Schwartzapfel
Beth Schwartzapfel looks at the work of Moshe Frumin, an Israeli sculptor and musician who recreates biblical instruments with clues from the Tanach and archeology. His work is currently on display at the Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art in Tulsa, Okla. Read more
By Jacob Neusner
Renowned Judaic scholar Jacob Neusner, who was educated at the Conservative-affiliated Jewish Theological Seminary and raised his children in the Cosnervative movement, explains why he has returned to the Reform Judaism of his youth. “After a half-century of apostasy, I affirm Reform Judaism as the American Judaism both of my personal choice and of our communal necessity,” he writes. Read more
By Eli Valley
What if Kafka had been hip? Eli Valley’s latest comic delves into the world of cool Jews in the Habsburg Empire circa 1903. Read more
By Lawrence Grossman
Penguin Classic’s imprint began in 1946 and it has since published more than 1,300 titles, under the motto: “The best books ever written.” The inclusion of a volume of selections from the Talmud in a series of world classics is long overdue. Read more
By Gal Beckerman
What if the story of 1989 is not one of popular uprising but a tale of a corrupt order collapsing after a light shove rather than being demolished by a stampede? Two books offer new views of the Berlin Wall’s fall. Read more
By Gordon Haber
A recent "Curb Your Enthusiasm" show-within-a-show plot-line hinged on Bernard Madoff's scam. The Forward has dug up some other notable examples of how the Ponzi schemer has seeped into pop culture. Read more
By Lisa Alcalay Klug
With Hanukkah approaching, the Forward has a guide to kitschy holiday gifts. Among the offbeat items to make our list: "Jewish Mother" chewing gum, a dreidel-poker hybrid, a latke spatula, and a stack of "Plotz" magazines. Read more
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