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FORWARD 50: Our annual list of 50 machers and shakers in the Jewish world. Plus one more. Read More Ugly Franken, Coleman Fight for Minnesota’s ‘Jewish Seat’ Continues By Brett Lieberman Bill Clinton, Obama Want Joe Lieberman to Stay With Democrats By Brett Lieberman Voting on a Hope and a Prayer By Dan Friedman Yid Vid: Animating the Portion By Daniel Treiman	Dems Allow Lieberman To Retain Key Posts Brett Lieberman \| Tue. Nov 18, 2008 Joe Lieberman came out of his day of reckoning quite well. “This is the beginning of a new chapter,” the Connecticut senator said after a private Democratic caucus meeting held November 18 in the historic Old Senate Chamber. The meeting was held to decide what to do about the fact that Lieberman crossed his Democratic colleagues this year to work as a key supporter for the Republican presidential candidate, John McCain. Read more A Record Number of Jews to be Part of Next Congress Brett Lieberman and Rebecca Spence \| Tue. Nov 18, 2008 When the new Congress debuts in January 2009, a record 45 Jews will take the oath of office: 32 in the House of Representatives and — regardless of the outcome in the still-contested Minnesota election — 13 Jews in the Senate. Read more Black, Jewish Vote for Obama May Signal a Renewed Tie After Jail, Agriprocessors Workers Face a Difficult Journey Moishe House: Building in Beijing My roommates and I built the only rooftop sukkah in Beijing, 16 floors above the traffic on Second Ring Road, overlooking Sinopec headquarters and the small Olympic park next door. It was a true Chinese sukkah — made in part with PVC pipes and metal wire from a local construction market. Read more

Editorial The Ethics of the Rabbis November 13, 2008 On the surface, the crisis besetting America’s largest kosher meatpacker looks a lot like the larger infection that is crippling the nation’s economy and undoing so many iconic brands, from Lehman Brothers to AIG to Circuit City. Like other firms, Agriprocessors fell victim to the arrogance of its owners and the dereliction of outside regulators. Like others, the crippling of Agriprocessors hits hard in thousands of households where daily life was dependent on the smooth operations of a trusted company. More in Editorial Advertisement Most Read Articles Jesus, Bob: To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest Black, Jewish Vote for Obama May Signal a Renewed Tie The Ethics of the Rabbis With Meat in Short Supply, Anxiety Abounds at Kosher Convention J Street Shows Its Strength In Numbers Web Exclusives Siegelmania Bark Obama Yid Vid Animating the Portion Yid Vid Portman and Jones Tackle the Economic Crisis Yid Vid If Amy Winehouse Sang in Yiddish Siegelmania Jewish Questions Arise in Beijing In Other Jewish Newspapers 'Baffling' Barack Obama, Fining Jesse Jackson, Gluing Gordon Brown

Forward Forum A Melting Pot President David Biale Advice on the Arab-Israeli Front: Try Pursuing Peace, Just Don’t Fail Aaron David Miller The Progressive Politics We Need Ralph Seliger And Now for That Other Election… Leonard Fein Mazel Tov, Mr. President-Elect! Now Do We Have Some Advice for You … Yossi Alpher, Shmuley Boteach, Alan Dershowitz, Elizabeth Holtzman, Marjorie Ingall, Deborah E. Lipstadt, Noam Neusner, Kathleen Peratis, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Thane Rosenbaum and David Wolpe For Conservatives, Exile and Reformation David Klinghoffer Arts & Culture God in the Dock Jesus, Bob: To Live Outside the Law You Must Be Honest Whose House? Whose Homeland? No Green Cards at the Green Line Evangelical Tours of Israel! Claude of the Jungle More Fast Forward Museum Madness Move Over, Napa: Boutique Wines From Israel Are Making a U.S. Debut Matchmaking Mishaps Three Centuries of Bagels A Book Rescues Jewish LPs From Obscurity A Serious Talk More The Shmooze Europe Gives a Nod to Israeli Films Kids Mag Ends Print Run Film Tells A Friend’s Story of Anne Frank Mr. Darcy’s Israeli Makeover Danny DeVito on Hair Loss and Peace The Bets Are in Shekels But the Game’s the Same More News Black, Jewish Vote for Obama May Signal a Renewed Tie J Street Shows Its Strength In Numbers Bitter Sectarian Election Gives Jerusalem a Secular Mayor With Meat in Short Supply, Anxiety Abounds at Kosher Convention After Jail, Agriprocessors Workers Face a Difficult Journey A (Limited) Promise of Marriage in Israel More

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