As millions prepare to watch the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week, tens of thousands of protesters are converging to rally against the ongoing war in Gaza. Inside the United Center arena, at least 30 party delegates are expected to...

A major Jewish Democratic group is stepping up efforts to engage Jewish voters in crucial swing states ahead of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago next week. In a 30-second digital ad, exclusively shared with the Forward and set to...

A group of 99 Jewish clergy from across the United States signed a statement calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a ceasefire deal that would free the remaining hostages held by Hamas. The signatories of the clergy statement...

Minouche Shafik, the Columbia University president whose campus became an epicenter of unrest this year following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, has resigned weeks before the start of the school year. Shafik’s resignation, tendered Wednesday,...

Pro-Israel activists will mount a “Hostage Square” during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago next week, in a bid to spotlight the plight of Israeli captives at a time when the city is preparing for large pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The...

For days, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz has been dogged by criticism — including from the Republican Jewish Coalition — about his ties to a Minnesota imam who praised Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack and once shared a link to a pro-Hitler...

Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar won her Democratic party primary on Tuesday, securing a victory for the hardline-left “Squad” member who is one of Israel’s fiercest critics in Congress. Omar defeated her challenger, Don Samuels, in Minnesota’s 5th...

Until recently, business was slow for Michael Zorek, a retired actor who hawks irreverent political buttons every Sunday to farmer’s market patrons outside New York City’s American Museum of Natural History. Some days, Zorek sold as few as five Joe...

If you hadn’t heard the term before, “zog” might sound like a strange piece of internet slang or perhaps a video game character. But the term, it turns out, is shorthand for Zionist Occupied Government, and it’s a 1970s variation on the age-old...

Regardless of who stood in the batter’s box, Jewish pitcher Max Lazar’s first career strikeout would have been a big deal. But as it was, that moment in Saturday night’s game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Arizona Diamondbacks was significant...

Vice President Kamala Harris’ likely presidential nomination has Democrats dreaming of history: First woman in the Oval Office. First Jewish First Gentleman. First…White House mezuzah? Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff hung a mezuzah — a decorative...

When vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz declared, “We’ll sleep when we’re dead”after his formal introduction in Philadelphia, he was not only quoting rocker Warren Zevon or referencing American revolution tummler Benjamin Franklin who famously...