The Coalition Avenir Quebec won an overwhelming victory in a provincial election on Oct. 3, 2022 despite passing a law that has been denounced as targeting religious minorities. Read more » »

By Dan Epstein July 01, 2022 This essay is part of the Forward’s list of 125 greatest Jewish movie scenes. You can find the whole list and accompanying essays here.Comedy was never Sidney Lumet’s strong suit. Read more » »

Jewish Women International at a protest for abortion rights in 2016 Courtesy of JWI By Meredith Jacobs May 03, 2022 “Didn’t we expect this to happen?” That’s the text I sent to my advocacy team when news broke of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion overturning both Roe and Casey. I wasn’t being cavalier or defeatist. Read more » »

For me, Rosh Hashanah has always served as the informal start to fall fashion. And so last year, as I facilitated Rosh Hashanah services on Zoom, I found myself oddly missing the smells of the synagogue sanctuary on Rosh Hashanah — a combination of new suits and musty tallises. Read more » »

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A lifetime achievement award will be presented to the American Jewish TV producer Norman Lear at this year’s Golden Globes ceremonies on Feb. 28, and it may be time to wonder whether Lear’s fierce optimism was fully deserved by the nation he has devoted himself to for almost a century. Read more » »

January 6, 2021 By Arno Rosenfeld Raphael Warnock never shied away from the historic nature of his run to become the first Black Senator from Georgia. Read more » »

January 6, 2021 By Arno Rosenfeld Merrick Garland would have become the fourth Jewish member of the Supreme Court. Now all indications are he’ll become the next attorney general. According to Politico, Joe Biden will nominate Garland to the country’s top law enforcement post. Read more » »

January 6, 2021 By David Ian Klein Zana Sadikario-Saatsoglou, a Thessalonikan Jew and Holocaust survivor, became one of the first people in Greece to receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday. 98-year-old Sadikario-Saatsoglou received the vaccine at Thessaloniki’s Saul Modiano Old Age Home, which serves its Jewish community. Read more » »

January 6, 2021 By Ron Kampeas WASHINGTON (JTA) — President-elect Joe Biden tapped Wendy Sherman, an Iran nuclear deal architect, to be his deputy secretary of state — a signal of his determination to return to the deal, Politico reported Tuesday. Read more » »