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Forward At 110
The Forward at 1101897, 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.
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110 Years of News in the ForwardSince 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.
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A Newspaper That Was No Mere NewspaperThe 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.
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Buzzy Gordon - A Two-State Solution May Have To Wait
Leonard Fein - A Melting Pot President
David Biale - Advice on the Arab-Israeli Front: Try Pursuing Peace, Just Don’t Fail
Aaron David Miller - The Progressive Politics We Need
Ralph Seliger
