Anna Goldenberg was the Forward’s culture fellow.
She edited the annual special sections on genetics and philanthropy in 2014. Anna holds degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and the University of Cambridge. Born and bred in Vienna, Anna is a columnist for the Austrian alt-weekly Falter and the science magazine profil wissen. Her writing has appeared in ZEITmagazin, Die Presse, profil and Aufbau, among others.
Follow her on Twitter @angoldna.
During the seven years that the four Spielberg siblings lived in Phoenix, Arizona, they didn’t always get to sleep through the night. Often, when there was a meteor shower or comet, their father Arnold would get Steven, Anne, Sue and Nancy out of their beds, and drive them in his Jeep to the desert around…
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Naomi Firestone-Teeter will be the new director of the Jewish Book Council, the Forward has learned. Firestone-Teeter, previously the associate director of the organization, will take over from Carolyn Starman Hessel, who led the Jewish Book Council for more than 20 years. “She will do a wonderful job,” Hessel said of Firestone-Teeter. “She’s been exemplary…
Ben Gonshor The first-ever David and Clare Rosen Memorial Play Contest, an international playwriting competition for projects with Jewish and Yiddish themes, has chosen its winner, Montreal-based Ben Gonshor. His historical drama “When Blood Ran Red” chronicles the friendships between African-American actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson and leading Soviet Jews after World War…
On a Sunday morning in late November, around 250 people fill the dark brown wooden pews of the Vilna Shul in Boston. A synagogue built by Jewish immigrants from Lithuania in 1919 on Phillips Street in the central Beacon Hill neighborhood, it closed in 1985, and then reopened as a cultural center in the early…
In the beginning it sounded like Disney World. Allen Kurzweil was 10 years old when his mother suggested that he spend one year at a boarding school in Villars, Switzerland. Kurzweil was exhilarated: He had fond memories of winter holidays in the Swiss Alps with his father, who had passed away five years before. But…
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