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THIS WEEK'S EDITION: On manna and other Jewish foods, layoffs, Little Richard, Danny Pearl and discrimination
 

Come, take a walk with me to Wall and Broad streets in Lower Manhattan. We're going to see Charles Solomon, the Jewish-Socialist politician whose ouster from the State Assembly in 1920 became a cause celebré of the Red Scare. Afterward, we'll stop by Cong. Ohev Shalom in Brownsville, Brooklyn, maybe take a ride on the Wonder Wheel near Coney Island, c. 1936.

No, you won't need your mask. You don't even need to be in New York. Just type UrbanArchive.org into your browser or download its new app. Some 100 photographs from the Forward's archives are among the thousands of artifacts to be discovered on its virtual maps. Solomon's is the first Forward story posted: coming soon, tales of our founding editor, Ab Cahan, and the old typesetters, and of the boy-cantor Kalmele Weitz.

That's one of the cool new things our team has been up to. There's also Rukhl Schaechter's awesome Yiddish Word of the Day video series on YouTube, and Rob Eshman's #QuarantineShabbat cooking show on Facebook Live: tune in today at 3 p.m. EDT/noon PDT to watch him ferment and stuff grape leaves from his neighbor's garden. 

It's been a newsy week in the Jewish world, with the Reform movement announcing layoffs and the Conservative movement embracing streaming, among other things. If you're someone who turns off tech for Shabbat, or just don't love links, click on this blue button for six stories to savor over the weekend.
 


 
Of course you can also read them right now on whatever you're using to read this newsletter. Besides the Reform story, there's a feature about a huge virtual Jewish food festival, the late Little Richard's lifelong love affair with Judaism, Danielle Berrin's searing interview with Danny Pearl's parents about why they're fighting to keep his killers in jail and news of the New York Attorney General looking into whether the police department has been unfairly enforcing social-distancing regulations, something Jews have been especially concerned about.

I've also included a little profile I wrote of Pastor Joel Hubbard and the food pantry that has blossomed at his Park United Methodist Church in Bloomfield, N.J. He calls it the Manna Food Project because no matter how many hungry people show up in the parking lot, there's always enough. 

Oh, and here's a really special treat: video of the conversation-cum-concert I hosted last night with the legendary David Broza. He's hunkering down in Tribeca, but has a new album coming out in September -- his first-ever instrumental one -- and played the first single, "Tears for Barcelona" as well as old favorites like the peace anthem "Yihye Tov." Hang in there: Things Will Be Better.


Shabbat Shalom,

Jodi
Jodi Rudoren
Editor-in-Chief

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