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“The US was the goldene medine; it was the salvation, but it was closed,” 86-year-old writer Alicia Freilich told me. “Venezuela became our goldene medine.” From exile, Alicia writes about Venezuela and reflects on her family’s incredible and tragic story. For @forward.com tinyurl.com/2a2cme68
“It started out about wages and conditions, but it’s turned into Israel/Palestine.” I talked to Breads Bakery workers about their union drive, and discovered a Columbia protest leader’s involvement. (For @forward.com ) forward.com/news/798696/...
How the push to unionize at Breads Bakery became a debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Global politics have been injected into the push for unionization at Breads Bakery — not everyone is happy about it.
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In all the debate about the correct bagel order, it’s left out that bagels should, whenever possible, be eaten open-faced.
While national politicians debate Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy, for @forward.com, I spoke to the Jewish voters in Astoria who actually know him. The conversations reveal a more nuanced picture than you’d expect. forward.com/news/733324/...
Zohran Mamdani has represented Astoria's Jews for 4 years. What do they think of him?
Before becoming the NYC mayor Democratic nominee, Zohran Mamdani represented Astoria in the New York State assembly, what do Jews there think?
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My newest for @forward.com: On its busy calendar of speed dating events, belly dancing performances and fundraisers for Palestinians, Brooklyn’s Barzakh Café has also hosted Jewish events, including interfaith Shabbat dinners and Mimouna celebrations forward.com/culture/7207...
At this pro-Palestinian cafe, you can practice your Hebrew and imagine you're in Mauritania
El Atigh Abba's Brooklyn cafe is an in-between place influenced by its owner's favorite cafe in his native Mauritania.
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Immigrants in Queens are redefining what it means to be American. The proof is San Wei, a Chinese hand-pulled noodle stall claiming to make NY’s best pastrami sandwich. And they’re looking to open dozens of locations. For @forward.com forward.com/culture/7108...
I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, tells a uniquely American story.
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Gabrielle (aka my mom, not yet on Bluesky) and I co-wrote an article about our recent trip to Munich which hinged on my great-grandfather’s silver cup - confiscated in 1930s Germany - being returned to our family after 80+ yrs in a Munich museum. #silverlevy #GermanJewish #TheForward
In Germany, a Jewish family is reunited with a treasured family object — but also a sense of exile
For Gaby and Sonya Gropman, a trip to Munich to retrieve a kiddush cup represented a homecoming to a land where there is no longer a home
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Yesterday, I had the honor to share the stage (bimah) with these concentration camp liberators at the Baltimore Jewish Council Yom HaShoah event. I presented about the @forward.com’s “Seeking Relatives” column.
ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt was once a Tufts student newspaper Opinion editor and free speech warrior. I wrote about it last year for @forward.bsky.social forward.com/news/607054/...
ADL chief backs campus crackdowns. As a student, he stood up for free speech — even by antisemites
Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the Anti-Defamation League, has supported campus crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protesters this week.
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The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1
I wrote about how Trump is using a 1950s antisemitic law to target pro-Palestine student activists. For @forward.bsky.social forward.com/news/702427/...
State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews
Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet sympathizers were subject to the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act.
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