The Forward

Jewish and Muslim leaders avoided the hardest interfaith topic for years, and now face a ‘massive fault line’

It’s been a quarter century since a wave of distrust and violence against Muslims swept across America in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. But in some pockets of New York City and across ...
The Forward

After 9/11, Jewish volunteers kept watch over the dead. 25 years later, the grief remains.

For seven months, an Orthodox synagogue and a group of college students ensured victims’ remains were never left alone ...
The Forward

With Jewish New Yorkers on edge, Julie Menin says new protections will help keep them safe over High Holidays

As Jewish New Yorkers prepare for the High Holidays amid continued worries about rising antisemitism, City Council Speaker ...
Opinion
The ForwardOpinion

A Jewish audience applauded when this speaker called for Muslims to leave America. Here’s a better response.

“I don’t want Muslims in America,” the activist Mosab Hassan Yousef said at the sold-out event last Sunday. “Get the f— out of the United States. Go back to the s—holes where you came from and reform ...