Jodi Rudoren
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Editor-in-Chief of the Forward. Formerly @nytimes. NNHS 1998, Yale 1992, twin mom since 2007, Montclair since 2016. Tweets mean, "Hey look at this," nothing mor
Montclair, NJ
Joined March 2009
Not just @maggieNYT but @mega2e and @jodikantor are also working-mom winners, who framed their speech about what they would tell their daughters about this day. Led by @BumillerNYT and Rebecca Corbett, extraordinary role models and bad-ass bosses.
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Uriel Baruch, my "adopted" hostage, is dead. I was randomly handed a card with his name and face at a vigil in the fall, and wrote a column about him. Then I spent Hanukkah with his wife and son. Today, the family announced that he was actually killed on #October7. IDF just found.
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As you wake up and absorb the news that @realDonaldTrump has #coronavirus, appreciate the absolute miracle that is @NYTimes, whose overnight coverage is stunning in its breadth and sharpness. I don’t know how society would survive this endless surreal news cycle without it.
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Today is the first day of the rest of my life, and in this case, my first day as Editor-in-Chief of @jdforward. Would love suggestions of Jewish (and non-) writers and thinkers to follow, meet with, cultivate as contributors or sources, as well as all other feedback and ideas.
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Six months into the war, the word filling my heart is khalas — enough. We need a ceasefire now, one that frees the hostages and ends the starvation in Gaza. It's the right thing for humanity, and for Israel.
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We interviewed the kid who tore down the Nazi protester's flag at the Sanders rally. Nice job, @thesimplechild
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It is truly hard to watch @bariweiss leave @nytimes — I worry it is not the place I know and love
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If you thought you knew what you thought about police shootings, think again: this @ProPublica piece by Joe Sexton turns the narrative upside down and raises a whole new set of questions.
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A TikTok went viral this summer in which a #Holocaust survivor claims the Nazis put something in her soup at #Auschwitz that stopped her from menstruating. A new academic paper suggests it was part of a widespread Nazi plot to weaken Jewish fertility.
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This is what bearing witness looks like. Amazing reporting and photography from @Tmgneff and @TylerHicksPhoto on the ground in #Ukraine
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The rabbi held hostage in Texas is a leader in interfaith outreach, had invited local imam and mosque members to his congregation. My profile:
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I think this just might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Montclair schools doing a mandatory fire drill even tho it's all virtual. No, they're not drilling on what to do if there's a fire in their homes. They're somehow training to exit a building without being in it.
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Quote of the night? “I don’t know why anybody goes to all the trouble of running for President of the United States just to talk about what we can’t do and shouldn’t fight for” — Elizabeth Warren.
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The amazing @maggieNYT is pulling back from Twitter, where sexism, partisanship, toxicity and just plain meanness are at all-time highs.
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Trump’s EO on Jews seems to be another example, at least on Twitter, of the growing inability to analyze news based on its substance rather than its author, for people to about an idea rather than just essentially restate that they are pro- or anti-Trump. Sad.
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Passing thru last town before Poland's border with Ukraine, a show of solidarity
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"Let's roll!": 19 years later, the daughter of the Jewish hero of Flight 93 is in college, having spent a year traveling as "Bielke" in the national touring company of "Fiddler." My Shabbat newsletter, including weekend reads from @jdforward .
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I've been pregnant twice. I've had two abortions. And I'm raising twins who just turned 14. I'm telling this story publicly for the first time in today's column
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Hers was a family of "adventure junkies making the best of vacation days, weekends, and airline miles." Shoshana Davis, 35, died of Covid-19. She left behind husband Adam Kwartowitz and daughter Sienna, who is 3.
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Super proud of my son for raising more than $2k to share his new love for tennis with underprivileged kids in Israel.
Today, a teenager in North Jersey hosted a tennis clinic that he organized for his bar mitzvah project. Lev Rudoren of Montclair, N.J., raised money for the Israel Tennis and Education Center through a tennis clinic facilitated by First Serve Tennis.
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He doesn't officially start til tomorrow, but we just published first @jacobkornbluh story in @jdforward (or at least first with him on staff): details of @AliMayorkas call with Jewish leaders including @HalieSoifer @daroff @JoelMartinRubin
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With all this discussion of the 25th Amendment, I turned to "The West Wing," where #POTUS takes what @JoshMalina calls "a fairly stunning act of patriotism and a fairly ordinary act of fatherhood" and invokes it.
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Some Orthodox Jewish women are uncomfortable with the idea of being served by male EMTS. So they started their own ambulance service. Which the existing all-male Orthodox ambulance service is blocking. via @jdforward.
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Thrilled to welcome @jacobkornbluh to @jdforward. His brave reporting was a hallmark of 2020; his incomparable sources and scoops have been a staple of Jewish journalism for a decade. We will be exceedingly proud to publish his byline. (He starts 1/11)
. And excited to join The Forward (@jdforward) as a senior political reporter. Starting next week, I will lead the publication’s coverage of the NYC municipal elections, the early days of the Biden administration and, obviously, the Israeli election (that will never end). 2/2.
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Are New Yorkers living longer? Well, two of them are running for president at age 78!.
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In which @bariweiss points out that if @GretchenCarlson met her promise to make #MissAmerica a place where “you are not judged by your outward appearance” it would be the only such place in society.
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"Everything is beautiful, but only in my room, not in Gaza," says Nidaa Badwan, an artist in isolation for a year http://t.co/ImzHb8qtz7.
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'Naziism is born in silence': The morning after Russian bombs hit the #Holocaust memorial site Babyn Yar, President #Zelensky calls on world Jewry to act to defend Ukraine. To Russia, he said, "You are killing Holocaust victims for the second time."
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Equally thrilled on this end!.
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@avitalrachel The only answer is @deborahlipstadt answer: joy not oy. To sing those Shabbat songs.
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If you follow @FacesOfCOVID you'll want to meet the face behind it, Tuesday at 2 pm ET - @alexjgoldstein will be joined by @YaelEisenstat and @koshadillz, all members of @jdforward 2020 list of remarkable American Jews. Sign up here:
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Jim Sciutto and Samantha Power, both Yale92, in conversation at our 25th reunion
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'I don't believe in first-world problems," Rabbi Rachel Kohl Feingold writes in this smart essay. Even during the Holocaust, Anne Frank fretted about her crush. You can be stressed about whatever you're stressed about, it's OK. via @jdforward.
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Finally! Seven months after her nomination as #Antisemitism envoy, Senate will hold confirmation hearing for @deborahlipstadt, @jacobkornbluh reports
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"We don't want them to grow up without any color," said a Syrian refugee growing sunflowers and corn in Zaatari http://t.co/ot5ur67zP3.
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So honored and thrilled to have joined @jacobkornbluh and his family in celebrating the marriage of his daughter Fraidy -- Mazal Tov!
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This is an absolutely incredible piece of data-investigative journalism. So powerful.
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@hunterw This person does not work for @jdforward nor was he on assignment for us. He wrote one piece for @jdforward, in 2018, Re walking off a Birthright trip. He was identified then as an organizer for @IfNotNowOrg.
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Not one but TWO boxes of biz cards awaited me on first day. Guess I’ll have to stay awhile. Thanks, Kia Davis @jdforward
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This video honoring Arab-Israeli health-care workers has been viewed by 2 million Israelis. That's more than watched any of @IsraeliPM Netanyahu's campaign ads. (Over three elections!) Happy Yom Ha'atzma'ut!.
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Anti-Semites/Jew haters beware: you’re no match for these two powerhouse thinkers. @deborahlipstadt @bariweiss @bungarsargon.
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For months, @MollyBoigon has been methodically requesting public records from the NYPD about what @NYGovCuomo calls an “epidemic” of anti-Semitic hate crimes. She has been denied a dozen times. via @jdforward.
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I know people are dying, and the economy is tanking, but . we really need camp. via @jdforward.
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Scoop: Biden administrations decline invite to Israel Bonds conference being headed by Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich, who recently called for wiping Palestinian city off the map. @jacobkornbluh reports in @jdforward
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Live updates re today's Parliament debate [11:30 EST] on banning Trump from Britain by @_StephenCastle
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‘What the (Insert Extreme Word of Choice) Is Going On Over There?’ The imitable @sarahlyall helps readers outside the US understand the US midterms via a popup @nytimes newsletter, #abroadinamerica
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How social media has put the Gaza-Israel propaganda war on steroids http://t.co/cemg92niw7.
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The problem with the one-binational-state that @PeterBeinart proposes in @NYTimesOpinion today is that the vast majority of Israeli Jews don't want to live in it. "A Jewish home that is not a Jewish state" is not what they built/moved to/inherited.
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". Israel must assume fully all its responsibilities as an occupying power" -- Abbas bombshell.
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SCOOP: Coalition of Hasidic groups endorse @AndrewYang in #NYC mayoral race, per @jacobkornbluh in @jdforward
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This just in: the Jewish Space Agency's response to allegations it started the wildfires: there's a perfectly good explanation.
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Don’t be embarrassed. Empathy is a reporter’s most important tool.
I was embarrassed to cry while interviewing Patricia, who was in El Paso honoring her son Joaquin with @ChangeTheRef. Thanks @mikiebarb & @rquester for being brave enough to air it. May this weekend be more peaceful than the last.
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When @ShribmanPG bannered the Mourner’s Kaddish on the @PostGazetteNow after #TreeofLife, it was one of the most profound strokes of journalistic leadership I’d seen. Very proud that he’s written about it for @jdforward
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Holocaust denialism took two decades to begin, @deborahlipstadt notes at @ADL #neverisnow conference. Oct7 denialism took "two days.".
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Charleston shooter reloaded five times, sat next to pastor for Bible study before killing him and 8 more http://t.co/EBqBv5ADPC.
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Must-read @bariweiss on what happens when a terrorist comes to your hometown via @NYTimes, Shabbat shalom.
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In landmark 213-page report, @hrw declares today that #Israel has committed the crime of apartheid in its treatment of the Palestinians. @ArnoRosenfeld has the overview in @jdforward .
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Today’s episode of #TheDaily podcast is an absolute must-listen. @jonathanweisman walks through the terrifying recent and longer-term history of #AntiSemitism, and quotes a former editor of @ajc: “When the wolves of hate are released, nobody is safe.” @mikiebarb.
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There are politicos @HalieSoifer and Matthew Brooks, @ossoff @JoshShapiroPA and @MayorFrey ; media mavens @ArielleLAngel @jaketapper @JohnKingCNN and @JBennet; and of course #Momala's step-daughter, Ella Emhoff
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Jewish law not only allows #abortions but requires it in some cases. Here's our explainer by @thislouis
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On the public's need to know about anti-Semitic hate crimes, @jdforward will not take no for an answer. We're suing @NYPDnews for access to documents. @BuzzFeedBen @JulieSandorf @kirstendanis @baquet @samdolnick @carolynryan @SteveEngelberg @grynbaum
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.@AIPAC made a mistake. It should not have invited the Serbian president to speak. Another terrific @bungarsargon piece. #AIPAC2020
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Whatever you think about Jerusalem, the City of David and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this @bariweiss piece should make you think a little deeper. Read the whole thing. via @NYTOpinion.
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Today the rabble-rouser Heshy Tischler pleaded guilt to inciting a mob attack on our @jacobkornbluh for doing nothing more than telling the truth. Tiny victory for press freedom and the rule of law.
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@joshmitnick Every reporter I've met who was in Gaza during war says this Israeli/now FPA narrative of Hamas harassment is nonsense.
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Religious school and Purim spiel rehearsal were canceled this morning because someone threw a Molotov cocktail at our synagogue. Here's my insta-column on when #Antisemitism hits very close to home.
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This morning we @jdforward published a feature story about Debra Messing's podcast on antisemitism. A few hours ago, I was informed via Twitter that the writer, a freelance journalist I do not know, has a troubling history on this platform. 1/3.
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Congrats @bariweiss. Your writing from #treeoflife last year stands as some of the most powerful journalism I’ve ever seen out of a mass shooting.
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“We, the students at American Jewish day schools, are American.” And proudly Zionist. via @jdforward.
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If you were going to read one article in today's @nytimes this one by @powellnyt re controversy around #jameswebb would be an excellent choice. Deeply reported, complicated, fair.
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Remember last Friday, when ultra-Orthodox men thwarted a bat mitzvah at the Western Wall? Lucia da Silva was the bat mitzvah girl, and she's written a powerful essay about it. The event "was not just for me," she writes, "but for all the girls to follow."
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My father is selling his sukkah. He's asking $4,900. Sounds crazy but the thing is priceless.
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Andrew Yang, frontrunner for NYC mayor, told @jacobkornbluh that three Jewish men have influenced him significantly over the years, and that "the Jewish experience is singular." 1/
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.@AnshelPfeffer on @beinart: his utopian “Israel-Palestine” doesn’t exist on the Mediterranean but 6k miles away “in a faculty lounge on some American campus.”
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Israel says mission of ground op is not to topple Hamas's longtime rule of Gaza, but to target tunnels and other infrastructure, operatives.
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For Jewish Democrats, this is a really big moment. A goofy dad who talks about Hebrew school alongside Little League might soon be putting up mezuzahs int he WH.
My dispatch on Doug Emhoff’s DNC speech: . ‘First Mensch’ Doug Emhoff thrills Jewish Democrats (and doesn’t mention Israel) . How Jewish delegates felt ⬇️.
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Absolutely thrilled to welcome @jacobhwasserman to the @jdforward newsroom as our new Engagement Editor! @jacobhwasserman is a grad of @newmarkjschool who is focused on making sure our journalism matches audience needs of our diverse communities. Nothing is more important!.
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Pic of Pope Francis at separation barrier in Bethlehem, where Vatican says he was praying http://t.co/QnbBnMfzPY.
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I kept noticing big changes in the way liberal Jews viewed Haredim in this pandemic vs the solidarity the surge of anti-Semitic violence this fall. So I wrote about it.
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Today is the one-year anniversary of both @jacobkornbluh and @benyamincohen starting @jdforward -- two of the slam-dunk best hires I've made in my career.
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If @JonOssoff wins, he'll make a minyan of 10 Jewish Senators, joining @RonWyden @SenSchumer @DianneFeinstein @BenCardinforMD @BernieSanders @MichaelBennet @brianschatz @JackyRosen @SenBlumenthal (I accidentally included former @SenCarlLevin before).
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All I want for my #birthday is for everyone to sign up for The #MeToo Moment, a new @NYTimes newsletter on fallout from sexual harassment by @jess7bennett
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A sad day for me and @jdforward as we lose a brilliant, compassionate, brave editor who brings her whole self to work and lives our values every day. 1/.
Some personal news: I'm leaving The Forward next week, after 3 life-changing years. I will be forever grateful to @Jane_Eisner, @danfriedmanme, @rudoren and of course my writers for their fearless support for civil debate on difficult issues, a vanishing value in American media.
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Too. Sad. The starving Yemeni girl @declanwalsh And @TylerHicksPhoto profiled last week died. 8 million kids there are malnourished.
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When @aidenpink told me he was leaving @jdforward my heart sank. Then he told me it was because he was going to become a rabbi, and I was inspired. Today's his last day, and here's his essay explaining his journey.
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“I want people to stare at this,” @TylerHicksPhoto tells @mikiebarb on incredible episode of The Daily about war, photojournalism, bearing witness and human emotion
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SCOOP: Look who @deborahlipstadt is bringing as her two guests to next week's confirmation hearing as #Antisemitism envoy. @jdforward @ArnoRosenfeld
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Abbas declares: "We cannot continue to be bound by these signed agreements with Israel. ".
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