Talya Zax
Philip Roth doesn’t live here anymore: A writer, a stonemason, an American friendship
“I am not an author. I’m a stonemason. And as a stonemason was how I first met Philip Roth.”
He survived the Holocaust, then interrogated Eichmann. 60 years later, he remembers.
“We had to make a trial against Adolf Eichmann so the whole world should know what has happened in the Holocaust.”
Three things Alice Walker gets dead wrong about anti-Semitism
It’s mistaken for Walker to think outrage at her endorsing a book that claims Jews egged Hitler into the Holocaust is about her opposition to Israel.
Join the Forward’s next book club — featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Geraldine Brooks
Welcome to The Forward Book Club, round two.
Coronavirus makes May Day a moment for radical action — and hope
The understanding that workers across the world are fighting the same fight is at a new high.
When Gloria Steinem and Phyllis Schlafly battled for the American soul
The phrase “the personal is political” is used so often that it can seem denuded of meaning; slowly and painfully, “Mrs. America” revives it.
In Stephen Sondheim’s birthday concert, notes of a better, more human Broadway
The cobbled-together, will-it-work nature of the evening highlighted just how human Sondheim’s work is.
Let’s talk about Andrew Cuomo’s oddly thirsty Yom HaShoah photo
Cuomo clearly intended to convey deep seriousness and profound grief. What’s funny — and unsettling — is how spectacularly he failed.
Hal Willner, 64, Music Producer On ‘Saturday Night Live’
Willner’s influence was everywhere in the show, shaping its character — quirky, irreverent, intent on making absurd premises absurdly funny.T…
Daily distraction: Take an art course from MoMA
It’s more important than ever to find things in the outside world to hold on to, even though we can’t go outside.