The Forward Jewish Culture How Jewish Teens Are Using TikTok, The Viral Short Video Platformforward.com - By Jenny Singer It took me just five minutes of TikTok streaming to come upon a video of a teenager dressed as “Harry Potter” spinoff character Newt Scamander doing …
The Forward Jewish Culture It’s Not Your Bubbe’s Drag Showforward.com - By Irene Connelly It’s after midnight — long past the bedtime hour for most bubbes — when Josephine steps onstage with her guitar. Her slightly disheveled red jumpsuit …
The Forward Jewish Culture You’re Invited To ‘Butt Mitzvah,’ A Queer Jewish Joy Discoforward.com - By Jenny Singer To life, to health, to great friends, and to butts: l’chaim. Fat-bottomed girls, Miss New Booty, and all the honky tonk badonkadonks of the tri-state …
The Forward Jewish Culture A Documentary Film On Female Pleasure Misses The Spotforward.com - By Irene Connelly In an advertisement for Italian fashion house Dolce and Gabbana’s summer 2007 collection, a well-oiled model sprawls across the screen, her face …
The Forward Jewish Culture On The Jewish Brilliance Of Jenny Slate’s Netflix Special ‘Stage Fright’forward.com - By Jenny Singer When Jenny Slate, the beautiful, turtle-like comedian, did a parody of a Hanukkah song on her new Netflix special, I laughed so much that I …
The Forward Jewish Culture What Happened At The Comedy Show Harvey Weinstein Attended?forward.com - By Jenny Singer “In a place where there are no humans,” 1st century Jewish sage Hillel said, “Strive to be human.” At a comedy showcase attended by Harvey Weinstein …
The Forward Cancer Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says She Kept Planking Through Cancer Treatmentforward.com - By Jenny Singer Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg continued to do planks and push-ups throughout her recent treatment for pancreatic cancer, she …
The Forward Jake Gyllenhaal Jake Gyllenhaal Jumped Into Traffic To Save A Stranger’s Dogforward.com - By Jenny Singer In what was almost certainly a real-life occurrence and not a highly produced marketing stunt by a perfume company, actor Jake Gyllenhaal rescued a …
The Forward Jewish Culture Natalie Portman Politely Schools Scorsese, Coppola On Why People Like Marvel Moviesforward.com - By Jenny Singer It’s not easy to make Harvard-educated multi-millionaire super model Oscar-nominee Natalie Portman look like the people’s hero. But that’s where we …
The Forward Judaism Simchat Torah Is Drunk Jewish Book-Club, With Dancingforward.com - By Jenny Singer The morning sky is pitch black, the children’s pencils are no longer sharp and their backpacks are bursting with shards of construction paper, the …
The Forward Sacha Baron Cohen Sacha Baron Cohen Slams Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook’s Latest Policyforward.com - By Jenny Singer Sacha Baron Cohen called Mark Zuckerberg’s morality on Twitter on Thursday. Sure — the Facebook founder’s got 99 problems, and receiving a lecture …
The Forward Jewish Culture Who Is Irena Sendler, The Catholic Holocaust Hero Who Gal Gadot Will Play In Upcoming Biopic?forward.com - By Irene Connelly and Jenny Singer When Germany invaded Warsaw in 1939, Irena Sendler was just a 29-year-old Polish social worker. By the end of the war, she had saved untold thousands …
The Forward Jojo Rabbit ‘JoJo Rabbit,’ A Holocaust Comedy, Is Good For The Jewsforward.com - By Jenny Singer German 10-year-old JoJo Betzler is a young boy with a simple dream: hunt Jews, make friends, get girls, blow stuff up. It’s the twilight of World War …
The Forward Zoe Kravitz Zoe Kravitz Ushers In The Era Of Jewish Catwomanforward.com - By Jenny Singer For people who believe that Jews run Hollywood, the hits just keep on comin’ — it was announced on Monday that Zoe Kravitz, the preternaturally cool …
The Forward The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Season Three Trailer Asks: Can Midge Have It All?forward.com - By Irene Connelly “I’m not a prostitute, I’m a comic,” a beleaguered Miriam Maisel insists in a new trailer for the third season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” set to …
The Forward Jewish Culture Sarah Silverman Takes Down The ‘Tortured Artist’ Myth: ‘Klonopin Saved My Life’forward.com - By Jenny Singer Many funny people suffer from depression, substance abuse, and other mental health problems. Therefore to be funny, you must be sad. Getting …
The Forward Watch Nick Kroll Casually Slay At Jewpardy With His Childhood Rabbiforward.com - By Jenny Singer Nick Kroll, the adult version guy who would have passed along the message that his best friend had a crush on your best friend during a USY trip, …
The Forward Meet The Jewish Mayor Trump Attacked, Who Is Now Being Called A ‘Sex-Symbol’forward.com - By Jenny Singer Pick your jaw up off the floor, kindly place your tongue back in your mouth, and for God’s sake stop salivating — that’s a public official you’re …
The Forward There Is Now An Official Handbook To Kvetchingforward.com - By Michael Kaminer In I Wanted Fries With That, the Montreal author lays out thoughtful, practical tips for effective complaining — along with roadmaps to civility as we …
The Forward RBG Is Wearing A Collar With A Torah Verse On It, The Week Of LGBTQ Rights Caseforward.com - By Jenny Singer On Tuesday, the days before Yom Kippur, the Supreme Court of the United States heard three employment discrimination cases and considered whether …
The Forward Icon version of the Flipboard logo RBG Is Wearing A Collar With A Torah Verse On It, To Hear LGBTQ Rights Caseforward.com - By Jenny Singer On Tuesday, the day before Yom Kippur, the Supreme Court of the United States heard three employment discrimination cases and considered whether …
The Forward Zach Galifianakis Talking Circumcision With Three Jewish Grandmas Is The High Point Of 2019forward.com - By Jenny Singer “Jews are like, my favorites,” says Zach Galifianakis, sweating, clutching a heart-shaped box of Russell Stover chocolates, as three Jewish …
The Forward Demi Lovato Went On A $150K Trip To Israel — Paid For By Israel And Private Fundersforward.com - By Jenny Singer Really, though. Multi-platinum U.S. pop star Demi Lovato had an experience this summer that was identical to one that has been shared by over 500,000 …
The Forward Is An Israeli Fashion Mogul About To Save Barneys’ From Liquidation?forward.com - By Michael Kaminer An Israeli-born fashion mogul is emerging as the white knight who may rescue beleaguered Barneys New York from liquidation. Sam Ben-Avraham, who …
The Forward Your Weekend Watch: An Undocumented Israeli Family Chases The American Dream On Netflixforward.com - By Irene Connelly Seventeen years old, with flat-ironed hair and carefully distressed jeans, Bar seems like she’d be perfectly at home at any American high school. She …
The Forward The ‘Transparent’ Musical Finale: Obscenely Jewish, And Endearingly Hard To Watchforward.com - By Jenny Singer If you think the 70-minute musical finale of Amazon Prime’s “Transparent” doesn’t end with a barn-burning group number called “Joyocaust!” take a hit …
The Forward Ivanka Trump Says ‘The Force’ Is With Her. Luke Skywalker Begs to Differ.forward.com - By Irene Connelly It’s the kind of aspirational snapshot common on Instagram: a casually perfect-looking young mother poses in a casually perfect-looking living room. …
The Forward Timothée Chalamet Handed Out Bagels On The Red Carpet On Rosh Hashanahforward.com - By Jenny Singer Like an inverse Santa Clause, Timothée Chalamet — diminutive, hairless, Jewish — arrived at the red carpet for the premiere of his new Netflix film …
The Forward The Lack Of Diapers In The Natalie Portman Astronaut Movie Is About Male Controlforward.com - By Jenny Singer The Natalie Portman film “Lucy In The Sky” was made because of a diaper. In 2007, NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak grabbed headlines when she drove 950-miles …
