Forward at 110
National News
- For Madoff’s Victims, Here’s a Guide to the Complex World of Legal Restitution
- In the Courtroom: Torment and Dante’s Hell
- Once Labeled An AIPAC Spy, Larry Franklin Tells His Story
Community News
- A ‘Jewish Missionary’ Takes On Hunger
- Judge: Kosher Company Illegally Coerced Workers Before Union Election
- Survivors’ Hopes Dashed as NY Assembly Adjourns Without Sex Abuse Vote
International News
- Franz Molnar’s Heirs Fight Over His Bank Account, And Their Identity
- Harmony Silenced at Egyptian Music Fest
- Prague Conference May Be Last Chance To Settle Holocaust Property Claims
Israel News
- Growing Gulf Between U.S. And Israeli Jews on Obama
- Some See Extended Olive Branch For Israel In Ross Appointment to NSC
- Why Defining ‘Natural Growth’ Is So Confusing, On Purpose
Arts & Culture
- From the Kol Israel Orchestra to a Pygmy Choir
- A Climb, a Crime and a Debut Novel
- Allowing the Yetzer Tov To Win
- Man’s (Comedic) Search for Meaning
- What do the Egg, the Swan and the Ant Have in Common?
- ‘Settling’ the Score
Fast Forward
- Forget the Game... How’s the Grub?
- Art Pop Indie Rock Meets Midrash
- Pioneer Songs, Revisited
- Camp in the Catskills: A Summer Tradition
- Moroccan Tradition
- Swine of the Times
The Shmooze
- Not ‘Far’ From Her Roots
- Historic Breakaway
- Disney Channel Goes Hebrew
- Shimon Peres, Songwriter?
- Surf’s Up
- Urban Kibbutz Puts Down Roots
Forward Forum
- In Iran Elections, Hezbollah Loses — Will Israel Too?
- Gilad Shalit’s Plight, and Israel’s Dilemma
- A Fourth of Jew-ly Celebration
- Sharansky Inherits a House Divided
- Actions Speak Louder Than (Even Ugly) Words
- Jewish Peoplehood Denied, While Israel’s Foes Applaud
Editorial
The Forward at 110
1897, the year the Forward was born, was a year of wrenching, epochal change in America and around the world. For Jews especially, this was the year that the 20th century truly dawned. It was a moment of millennial beginnings that were destined to transform history. It was the perfect time for a new journal to arrive on the scene and set about chronicling the cataclysms to come.Read More
110 Years of News in the Forward
By Nathaniel Popper
Since the Forward began sending out reporters 110 years ago, the paper has been on top of nearly every major news event. The Forward’s mission was political but its first commitment was to telling its readers what they needed to know and telling them straight. Here is a selection of seven particularly decisive stories of the last century and a quick glimpse at how the Forward’s coverage stood out.Read More
A Newspaper That Was No Mere Newspaper
By Tony Michels
The men and women who founded the Jewish Daily Forward were not business people out to make a buck. They were socialist intellectuals and labor activists who wanted to create a new tribune for Yiddish-speaking workers. On January 30, 1897, they met in a rented hall on Orchard Street to make plans.Read More
A Friend to Those Who Struggle — Then and Now
By Daniel Sokatch
‘Victory!! Bravo, Hurrah, Cap Makers! Cheers to the entire Jewish quarter, which helped win this amazing battle! Hurrah to all the unions!” Thus read the Jewish Daily Forward’s front page in 1905 in response to a huge victory by the cap makers’ union. The Forverts published in red ink to honor the workers’ victory.Read More
A Community of Readers
By Jennifer Siegel
For the thousands of Jewish immigrants who flooded into America during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Jewish Daily Forward was far more than a newspaper — it was a lifeline, an advocate and a basis of community. Led by its legendary founding editor, Abraham Cahan, the Forverts helped generations of newcomers adjust to life in America. Unabashedly leftist in bent, the paper tirelessly chronicled the hardships of life in New York’s fetid factories and cramped tenements, while boosting trade unionism and socialism.Read More
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