Articles written collectively by the Forward’s staff.
Forward Staff
By Forward Staff
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The Schmooze Out and About
Take a look at a series of photos taken by a young Stanley Kubrick titled “Life and Love on The New York City Subway.” How Herman Göring’s younger brother Albert saved dozens of Jewish lives. Adam Kirsch reflects on a “quasi-novel” about the assassinated Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich. “The Steins Collect,” an exhibit at the…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Writer László Krasznahorkai talks to Guernica magazine about terror in fiction, the aesthetic of the long sentence, his love of contemporary music, and collaborating with Allen Ginsberg. Read our review of his most recent novel here. Tel Aviv-born artist Maira Kalman takes a stroll through her native city. Read our interview with Kalman here. Bob…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Meet Yiddish sensation Libby Pollak. Take a look at a trove of previously unseen old New York City photos. Eight American cities are getting money for new arts journalism initiatives. Step into the weird and wonderful world of women’s arm wrestling. Listen to Habitus editor Joshua Editor reflect on Berlin. Christian Lorenzten expounds on the…
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News Forward Nominated for Deadline Club Awards
The Forward captured both finalist spots for reporting by small and mid-size newspapers and was nominated as a finalist for opinion writing in the 2012 contest sponsored by the New York chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The paper was named a finalist for reporting by newspapers under 100,000 circulation for Paul Berger’s story,…
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The Schmooze Out and About
HEEB talks to the world’s most prolific “Downfall” parodist. Darren Aronofsky may direct a George Washington biopic. Yiddish theater comes to Johns Hopkins University. A Haifa street-art collective goes to London. The Israeli film “The Policeman” won the prize for Best Film at the Buenos Aires film festival. Shulem Deen writes for Salon about how…
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Fast Forward Jewish Brothers Stand Trial for Teen Beating
The trial of two Orthodox Jewish brothers accused beating a black teenager will begin today in Baltimore. This case is widely being compared to the Trayvon Martin shooting. According to prosecutors, Eliyahu Werdesheim, 24, and Avi Werdesheim, 21, were patrolling their heavily Orthodox neighborhood in November 2010, when they surrounded a 15-year-old boy, pushed him…
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The Schmooze Out and About
Ruth Franklin tells us what we can learn from video footage of Anne Frank. Not everyone loves the new HBO show, “Girls.” NPR talks to Kazuo Ueda, author of the Yiddish-Japanese dictionary. Read our piece on Ueda and his work here. Cynthia Ozick has been shortlisted for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction. Jason Diamond…
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The Schmooze Out and About
In this week’s New York Times Book Review Steve Almond reviews Etgar Keret’s “Suddenly, a Knock on the Door,” and Jonathan Rosen reviews Peter Beinart’s “The Crisis of Zionism.” Read the Forward’s coverage of those books here and here. Listen to Gary Shteyngart read from Keret’s book, here. The Museum of Jewish Heritage wants to…
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