President. today is a bittersweet day at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City where the annual commencement ceremony will include an unprecedented presentation of a posthumous honorary doctorate to Mordechai Strigler. the talented editor of the Yiddish Forward who died last week at the age of 76. I rose almost a year ago today to share with the Senate the news of the Forwards centenary. This remarkable newspaper. which once helped hundreds of thousands of new Immigrants learn about their new homeland. now prints Yiddish. Russian and English weekly editions. The Yiddish edition has gone from a daily press run of 250.000 copies to a weekly run of 10.000. but has retained much of the literary excellence and social conscience that has so characterized the Forward during its storied history.
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