Irene Katz Connelly is a staff writer at the Forward. You can contact her at connelly@forward.com. Follow her on Twitter at @katz_conn.
Irene Katz Connelly
By Irene Katz Connelly
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Theater Playing a 1960s beatnik, Oscar Isaac finds out that being Jewish doesn’t make you a social justice authority
Lorraine Hansberry’s ‘The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,’ an overlooked play about idealism and apathy, gets a New York revival
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Theater In this new play, all unhappy (Jewish) families are alike — and some look suspiciously familiar
Literary gossip! Emotional affairs! Katie Holmes! 'The Wanderers,' Anna Ziegler's off-Broadway play about marriage and fidelity, has it all.
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Culture This Orthodox New Yorker feeds more cats than you
I followed a Jewish cat rescuer on his morning rounds to see what it's like caring for feral felines in a city that doesn't want to deal with them
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Culture How a would-be revolution led to an exodus of Polish Jews
History cuts a love story short in a film about the student uprisings that rocked Poland in 1968
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Culture The hottest Jewish trends for 2023 (and the 2022 fads we won’t miss)
Look for deli raves, Nora Ephron and Yiddish women writers to dominate the new year
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Culture Why was 2022 the year TV turned really, really Jewish?
Jews have always had a presence on the small screen. But this year, their stories took on new nuance
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Film & TV The best Jewish (and Jew-ish) movies of 2022
The year's best Jewish films engaged with the complicated legacy of Jewish storytelling
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Culture Maccabee Bar is serving up Hanukkah warm fuzzies (and hard drinks) in the West Village
The holiday pop-up has good vibes and solid drinks
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Opinion Admit it, American Jewish establishment: Peter Beinart was right
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Opinion I shared my father’s letters about Nazi horrors with a high school class
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Fast Forward Despite missed Yom Kippur clue, Jewish studies professor was a 3-day ‘Jeopardy!’ champ
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Sports 50 years ago, a Yankee became the first designated hitter — and ‘designated Hebrew’
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Fast Forward Biden says Israel ‘cannot continue down this road,’ says he won’t invite Netanyahu soon
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Fast Forward Leading Jewish security organizations form super group called the ‘Jewish Security Alliance’
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Fast Forward Greece arrests 2 men suspected of planning attacks on Jewish sites in Athens
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