Kariv grew up in what he describes as a typical secular Israeli family, leaning toward the political left, but “not ...

Whenever the news reports words or actions by some Jews that make Jews look bad in the minds of bystanders, one of our gravest sins has been done. Not by the reporters or the news audiences but by ...

Students from five rabbinical schools tell the Forward how they're thinking about artificial intelligence in relation to ...

In the attempted comedy ‘My Neighbor Adolf,’ a Holocaust survivor suspects his neighbor is Hitler — and befriends him anyway.

Zohran Mamdani was inaugurated as Mayor of New York City in a freezing ceremony, surrounded by tens of thousands of New ...

Still, despite repression and discrimination, 2025 also witnessed the beginnings of grassroots organisers adopting a clear ...

What is provocative is the world’s growing comfort with Jews being hunted in plain sight. If a Jew cannot walk freely in a ...

A culture can be proud without being chauvinistic. And a people can be self-confident without being imperious.

Israel’s delusional vision of itself as a solo regional superpower may come down to something like protein that the body ...

A 2,000-year-old code that once looked like random scratches on parchment has finally given up its secret, turning a handful of obscure Dead Sea fragments into a new window on one of antiquity’s most ...

It is fascinating to see the way that traditions have grown up around the celebration of Christmas, and how many of those ...

According to a Pew Research Center survey, only 52% of American Jews can read Hebrew. The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute is ...