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Jewish Culture
On Her 100th Birthday, Doris Lessing And The Jews
forward.com - Benjamin Ivry
Doris Lessing, who died on November 17, 2013 at age 94, won the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature for her prolific writings ranging from autobiography …
6 hours ago
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Jewish Culture
Did Trump Just Give A Jewish Astronaut The Finger?
forward.com - PJ Grisar
Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir was busy walking outside of the International Space Station Friday afternoon as part of the first all-female spacewalk, …
4 days ago
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Jewish Culture
‘Oklahoma!’ Is The Go-To Score For HBO’s ‘Watchmen’
forward.com - PJ Grisar
The new HBO series “Watchmen” is a puzzling property from the get-go. While it shares the universe with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s 1986 graphic …
March 20
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Jewish Culture
Why Were Two Washington Nationals Named For A Canaanite God?
forward.com - Michael J. Prival
Now that my home team, the Washington Nationals, is in the World Series, their opponents, the Houston Astros, will find themselves facing a Nationals …
1 day ago
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Jewish Culture
Who To Root For In The World Series — The Jewish Star Or The Underdog?
forward.com - Jay Schreiber
The World Series is baseball’s promised land, and for the second time in the last three seasons, it will include the sport’s best Jewish player, …
1 day ago
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Mia Farrow
To Protect A Predator: How Ronan Farrow Unmasked A Conspiracy
forward.com - Julia M. Klein
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators While Ronan Farrow was investigating sexual harassment and assault accusations …
1 day ago
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Jewish Culture
On Mars, A Jewish Quest For Life — And A Crater’s Tragic History
forward.com - PJ Grisar
The discovery of life on Mars has been the stuff of scientific hope and speculative fascination for generations. Edgar Rice Burroughs put John Carter …
Aug 28, 2015
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Jewish Culture
Art In Jerusalem Matters— 6 Biennale Artists Tell Us Why
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The fourth Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art is currently being held in Jerusalem, featuring the work of 200 artists in 30 exhibitions. The theme …
4 days ago
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Jewish Culture
Will This Astronaut Be The First Woman (And First Jew) To Walk On The Moon?
forward.com - PJ Grisar
On October 18, the first all-female spacewalk in history will take place about 240 miles from Earth. One of the women walking is a member of the …
August 6
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Jewish Culture
‘Big Mouth’ Mouths Off To Anti-Semites In Its Third Season
forward.com - PJ Grisar
The new season of Netflix’s “Big Mouth,” the subversive-in-the-extreme sex-ed show about middle schoolers’ animated adventures in puberty, features …
Jun 8, 2017
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Jewish Culture
The Classical Trouble With Daniel Mendelsohn
forward.com - Jackson Arn
With Daniel Mendelsohn, there’s always a classics analogy. Magazine editors, let us say, then, are like Roman emperors: the longer their reigns, the …
6 days ago
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Sukkot
From the Archives: Sukkot Through the Ages
forward.com - Irene Connelly
Before Jews could post about #Sukkot on Instagram, they saw it documented in our pages. From tenements in New York to small towns in Poland and …
6 days ago
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Jewish Culture
From The Archive: Portrait Of Harold Bloom As A Young Man
forward.com - Chana Pollack
It’s hard to imagine the legendary literary critic Harold Bloom, who died Monday at the age of 89, as a young man. This was largely by design. Bloom …
October 14
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Jewish Culture
Why Those Arrested Giuliani Associates Were Talking About Anatevka
forward.com - PJ Grisar
The saga of the two Soviet-born associates of Rudy Giuliani arrested last week for alleged campaign finance violations, has a head-scratching …
October 11
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Jewish Culture
Remembering Harold Bloom — Lover Of Literature, Defender Of The Western Canon
forward.com - Benjamin Ivry
Harold Bloom, the American Jewish literary critic, has died at the age of 89. During his extremely prolific career, his audience was split between …
October 14
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Jewish Culture
This Sukkot, This Artist Invited Superheroes To His Sukkah
forward.com - PJ Grisar
Every Sukkot, families with sukkahs invite the spirits of the seven biblical matriarchs and patriarchs into their tent. These guests - or ushpizin - …
October 10
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Jewish Culture
125 Years Later, The Dreyfus Affair Remains Unfortunately Relevant
forward.com - Robert Zaretsky
One hundred and twenty-five years ago, on the morning of October 15, 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a staff member of the French military high …
Apr 15, 2014
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Jewish Culture
From Poland To The USSR To Iran To Israel: A Holocaust Story
forward.com - Julia M. Klein
It was the prompting of an Iranian-American colleague at the City College of New York that stirred Mikhal Dekel’s interest in her family’s Holocaust …
October 14
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Jewish Culture
Should We Mourn WBAI? Or Did That Time Pass Long Ago?
forward.com - Jon Kalish
Is it time to say Kaddish for WBAI — or should we summon some rabbis to exorcise it? The legendary listener-supported radio station, once a …
October 13
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Jewish Culture
How Columbus Brought America Its First Jew
forward.com - PJ Grisar
Author’s Note: This article, detailing the mysterious life of America’s first Jew, was originally published on Columbus Day 2018. While the day and …
October 11
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Jewish Culture
Romania To Open Its First Holocaust Museum
forward.com - PJ Grisar
On October 8, the eve of Yom Kippur, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced plans for the country’s first Holocaust museum. The announcement …
Dec 16, 2016
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Jewish Culture
For Jerome Robbins At 101: The Quintessential Jewish American Genius
forward.com - Talya Zax
On May 6, 1953, Jerome Robbins was front-page news in the Forward for an act that would haunt him for the rest of his life. An above-the-fold headline …
Jul 17, 2018
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Jewish Culture
The New Nobel Prize In Literature Is Scandalous. Here’s Why.
forward.com - Talya Zax
In the hours since the Swedish Academy announced Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke as newly-minted winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, much has …
October 8
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Jewish Culture
3 Jewish Stars Played On Yom Kippur — The Same Fate Befell Them All
forward.com - Jay Schreiber
In the end, the three prominent Jewish players who were taking part in baseball’s postseason this week all opted to play on Yom Kippur. In the end, …
October 10
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Jewish Culture
How My Uncle Myer Baked JFK’s Birthday Cake
forward.com - Roger Keizerstein
During the early 1960’s my family and I would take two long train rides from our three-flight walk up in the East New York Section of Brooklyn to our …
October 10
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Jewish Culture
Return To The Reich
forward.com - Eric Lichtblau
“Return to the Reich” tells the story of a harrowing US espionage mission into Nazi-occupied Austria led by Freddy Mayer, who had escaped Nazi …
October 10
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Yiddish
Here Are The Winners Of Israel’s National Yiddish Story Contest ‬‬
forward.com - Forverts Staff
In July, Israel’s National Authority for Yiddish Culture launched the first government-sponsored Yiddish-language writing contest ever held in the …
Jun 4, 2012
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Jewish Culture
Carolyn Forché, Ilya Kaminsky Among National Book Award Finalists
forward.com - Talya Zax
Finalists for the National Book Awards, winners of which will be announced on November 20, include Ilya Kaminsky, László Krasznahorkai and Carolyn …
June 18
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Jewish Culture
How I Stole Chantal Akerman’s Ideas For the Obama White House
forward.com - Arun Chaudhary
Editor’s note: Filmmaker Chantal Akerman passed away on this date in 2015. To commemorate her life and work, we are revisiting this essay by Arun …
October 5