The Forward's Come As You Are gala: Comedy and cocktails in challenging times
Monday, October 19 @ 8:30 p.m. ET/ 5:30 p.m. PT 

Join comedians, celebrities, politicians and your favorite Forward journalists tomorrow as we gather on screen for a light-hearted evening in these uncertain times.

Register here.

The Forward's auction

Our online auction is now live. Hurry and bid on your favorite items, including a luxury golf package, classes with Forward journalists, a vintage handbag, and much more!

BONUS: Your auction dollars are now matched! A generous donor will match auction proceeds up to $75,000. So bid freely, knowing your donations go further in supporting independent, Jewish journalism.

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The 2020 election: disinformation and democracy
Thursday, October 22 @ 7 p.m. ET/ 4 p.m. PT 

Online hate and disinformation have long impacted Jewish communities and the health of democracy and civic life. Now, conspiracy theorists and other bad actors are using disinformation to play an outsized role in the 2020 election and exploiting public anxiety to sow division and chaos and to shatter public trust in voting and the democratic process. 

Join a panel of experts for an important conversation around key narratives playing out this election cycle, how are the social media platforms trying to shift their platforms in the final days to compensate, how to push back on disinformation, and how we as individuals can ensure that all votes are counted this cycle?

Featuring: Molly Boigon, Investigative Reporter, The Forward; Angelo Carusone, President, Media Matters; Lisa Kaplan, Founder and CEO, The Alethea Group; Senator Jacky Rosen (NV); Oren Segal, Vice President of the Center for Extremism, ADL.

This event is co-sponsored by ADL.

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Social cohesion vs. the dissolution of democracy
Monday, October 26 @ 2 p.m. ET/ 11 a.m. PT

Join an extraordinary conversation that brings together respected national leaders — from the progressive left to the social service sector to Jewish organizational world — for a discussion regarding how antisemitism, racism and anti-Black/anti-Immigrant narratives have pervaded our national conversation during these tense pre-election days — AND what we can do about it.

Forward editor in chief, Jodi Rudoren will be joined by Jennifer Epps-Addison, Co-ED, Center for Popular Democracy; Ari Gordon, Director of Muslim-Jewish relations, American Jewish Committee; and Jina Krause-Vilmar, CEO, Upwardly Global.

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25 years after Rabin — can Israel be both democratic and Jewish?
Tuesday, October 27 @ 2 p.m. ET/ 11 a.m. PT

November 4th marks the 25th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yizhak Rabin, an event that crystalized the tension between Judaism and democracy that is imprinted in Israel’s DNA. As the debate over the freedom of religion and protest continues to intensify in Israel, join us for a unique webinar to explore Rabin’s legacy and the relationship between Judaism and democracy today. What has changed in the last 25 years and what does the future hold? Is Jewish democracy possible?

Forward editor in chief, Jodi Rudoren will moderate. She’ll be joined by Tehila Friedman (Member of Knesset), Yohanan Plesner (Director, Israel Democracy institute), Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove (Park Avenue Synagogue) and Tova Birnbaum (BINA & Oshman Family JCC).

This talk is in partnership with BINA, the Jewish movement for social change.

Register here.

Sponsored
Listen: Decision Points podcast — Hafiz al-Assad and the Elusive Quest for Syrian-Israeli Peace

Under the rule of Hafiz al-Assad, Syria employed harsh tactics and embodied rejection of Israel, but he reluctantly flirted with an Israeli peace as a means to retrieve the Golan Heights. Now, as other Arab capitals pursue rapprochement with Jerusalem, the question reemerges of how close Assad and his interlocutors came to a deal in the 1990s. Join host David Makovsky for a conversation with three individuals closely involved in the Syrian-Israeli peace process: former U.S. ambassador to Syria and Israel Edward Djerejian; former member of the U.S. peace team and translator for presidents and secretaries of state Gamal Helal; and Institute International Fellow and former member of the Israeli negotiating team on Syria Michael Herzog.

Listen here.

Abigail Pogrebin, author and Forward contributor, was joined by four of the 18 rabbis she interviewed for our recent series on God: David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, Angela Buchdahl of Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, David Ingber of Manhattan’s Romemu and Laura Shaw Frank of AJC. The talk was moderated by Jodi Rudoren.