Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
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Looking Forward The bizarre antisemitic book that taught me to better understand Judaism
Hector Bolitho's 'Twelve Jews,' published in 1934, tried to defend Jews — in one of the strangest ways possible
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Theater They told Willy Loman he was everything; ’twas a great American lie
In a new Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman,' a 'King Lear' for our time
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
Almost four decades after its premiere, 'Reunion' is a masterful look at how civil society disintegrates
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Looking Forward We need to talk about New Jersey’s Jewish master of literature. No, not that one
Philip Roth and Judy Blume are both giants of American Jewish literature — so why do we put them in different classes?
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Film & TV Everything Jewish that happened at the Oscars: A ‘Marty Supreme’ shutout, an onstage ‘free Palestine’ and more
The Forward culture team breaks down everything Jewish in the Academy Awards
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Opinion How Jesse Jackson changed his mind about Jews — and what Abe Foxman made of it
The late civil rights leader 'was the guy who couldn't pass the synagogue without going in,' the longtime ADL director said in a new interview with the Forward
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Looking Forward Why am I so much better at singing in Hebrew than in English?
Solving a mystery from my bat mitzvah, two decades later
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Culture The Muppets are my rabbi, and they should be yours
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