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#StevenSotloff should be ineligible for the Forward 50. But Sotloff, who was murdered by Islamic militants, merits special inclusion. To the end, he held fast to his beliefs, both as a journalist and as a Jew. If not for the fanatical ideology of his murderers, Sotloff would still be alive. http://jd.fo/p67E6
"While other Jewish families suffered unimaginable brutality in the Holocaust, my family lived like royalty in the Portuguese paradise known for its wine, Madeira. I know: I sound like an entitled, unsympathetic brat. And what I’m trying to say is, I feel guilty about this. I always have." Can you relate?
"It’s true that according to some adherents of Chabad Lubavitch ‘it is a mitzvah [a divine command] to drink, and drink to excess, on Purim’ (and possibly on other holidays as well)."
"It was then that I realized that Abu Tor wasn’t mixed, but divided: Jews on one side and Palestinians on the other." The Forward's Middle East correspondent takes us on a tour of her new Jerusalem neighborhood, where the daily soundtrack includes Molotov cocktails, sirens, and sex.
"The modern Jewish civilization that produced Freud and Einstein, Roth and Bellow, Dear Abby and Hannah Arendt, Sarah Bernhardt, Estee Lauder, Golda Meir and the Marx Brothers could turn out to be nothing more than a blip in history, a pause in the eternal saga of the Talmud and the ghetto." J. J. .Goldberg spots dire signs of liberal Jewry's demise:
For the first time ever, our #Forward50 list has a majority of women. From Scarlett Johansson to Ruth Bader Ginsberg (and let's not forget great guys like Saul Zabar), here are the Jews who rocked 2014. http://jd.fo/a5rLW
What is the quintessential Jewish food? Kreplach? Herring? Bagels? These Jewish food experts can't decide!
Kristallnacht, a dramatic event of chilling evil, seems like perfect material for a novel — so why has it inspired no successful literary interpretations over the decades?
Supreme Court judges usually don't inspire Tumblr's and T-shirts — but this one does! For being outspoken and effective at 81, Ruth Bader Ginsburg rounds out the Top 5 of our #Forward50. http://jd.fo/d5qpP
West Berlin had the rabbis and the cantors. But East Berlin had the Jewish cemetery. A student leader remembers the Berlins of her youth.
"There will not be another Holocaust. But Kristallnacht is another story. Let us learn its lessons to avoid the slow terrorization of Europe’s Jews."
Rachelli Fraenkel lost her son in the terrorist kidnapping that led to the Gaza war. For reaching beyond painful divides even as she was grieving her own loss, we name her to the #Forward50. Watch the powerful video: http://jd.fo/p65sL
A Jewish husband wants his wife to cut off all contact with her anti-Semitic mom. She asks the #Seesaw for help explaining to him why she can’t just end the relationship.
Ever since Kristallnacht, one Jewish family has been searching for the man who saved them from the Holocaust. He was a Nazi officer.

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