Looking Back
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
July 10, 2009
100 Years Ago in the forward: Seltzer is far and away the most popular drink on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. As a result of the beverage’s popularity, seltzer bottlers work overtime. But most seltzer drinkers are not familiar with the dangerous realities of working in a seltzer factory. Accidents are daily occurrences, and workers come home with bandaged heads, sliced-up hands and missing eyeballs.Read More
July 3, 2009
100 Years Ago in the forward: Like a conquering army, the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side were filled with thousands of white-capped, white-shirted bakers waving red flags and beaming with joy at the final settling of their strike.Read More
June 26, 2009
100 Years Ago in the Forward: The streets of Jerusalem are full of fury, as it was discovered that the holy city has been dirtied by the publication of a new Yiddish newspaper. To make matters worse, Hebrew had just begun to get a foothold, and now this.Read More
June 19, 2009
100 Years Ago In the Forward*: The headless body that was cut up in pieces, wrapped up in oil cloth and found near the public school on Henry Street caused much upset and fear among residents of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Sliced into pieces, wrapped in two bundles of oil cloth and marked with the words “Black Hand,” the body was taken to the morgue, where police were able to find clues as to who it was.Read More
June 12, 2009
100 Years Ago in the Forward: Yankev Gordin is dead. Endless numbers of people have received the news with a sharp pain and with tears in their eyes. But for us, for the radicals, his death is especially painful. Gordin, with his literary activity, belonged to our radical circle.Read More
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