Irene Katz Connelly is a staff writer at the Forward. You can contact her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @katz_conn.
Irene Katz Connelly
By Irene Katz Connelly
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Fast Forward Clare Bronfman, heiress who bankrolled NXIVM ‘sex cult,’ sentenced to almost seven years
Clare Bronfman, an heiress to the Seagram’s liquor fortune, was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison for her involvement in NXIVM, a self-described self-improvement group widely considered a cult. Bronfman pled guilty in 2019 to two counts: fraudulent use of identification and conspiring to conceal and harbor an undocumented immigrant for financial…
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Culture Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s signature collar will go on display in Tel Aviv
During Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s tenure on the Supreme Court, collars arrived to her door from all corners of the world. Gifts from law clerks and tributes from admirers, they arrived from cities as distant as Cape Town and entered her much-scrutinized rotation of judicial decor. Now, one of those collars is embarking on a journey…
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Culture Timed tickets and temperature scans: The Jewish Museum reopens for the pandemic era
My temperature was normal, and everyone in the lobby of the Jewish Museum knew it. On Tuesday morning, I ducked out of a light drizzle on 92nd Street and into the Jewish Museum, which reopened on September 24 after a six-month closure due to coronavirus. Gone were the hallowed museum customs of the Before Times:…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman gives Aesop an update with new children’s book
If I had to choose one image to represent the phrase “having it all,” it would be a simple snapshot of Natalie Portman, best known as an actress but also a climate activist, vegan lifestyle evangelist, literary influencer, promoter of those social justice causes already widely accepted in Hollywood, sports entrepreneur, and alleged disrupter of…
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The Schmooze Crushing on your bar mitzvah dancer? Rachel Bloom has a show for that
If you’ve ever harbored tender feelings for an adult your parents hired to help you and your peers get down on the dance floor during the most awkward period of your life, you probably never wish to contemplate that individual again. You may feel uncomfortably seen by this Key and Peele sketch. You may destroy…
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Culture A month before her death, RBG made a (virtual) concert appearance
When Lewis Kaplan emailed Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s family, asking if she wanted to take part in a pandemic-era music festival, he didn’t know what would happen. What he didn’t expect was an immediate response from the justice’s daughter, Jane Ginsburg, telling him that the Notorious RBG was all in. No, this isn’t an exposé of…
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News High turnout at virtual Rosh Hashanah leaves rabbis relieved, but money woes persist
Mishkan, a congregation in Chicago, registered 2,500 guests for Rosh Hashanah services, compared to 1,900 last year. At B’nai Jeshurun in New York, a slate of virtual Rosh Hashanah offerings drew about 10,000 users, three times the number of members and guests the synagogue hosts in a typical year. Although it’s too soon to say…
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Culture In Nessa Rapoport’s ‘Evening,’ the sun sets on a complicated sisterhood
Midway through “Evening,” Nessa Rapoport’s second novel, two teenage sisters stand in the bathroom, squabbling. Eve is readying herself for a date with Laurie, an older boy who happens to be a friend of her sister, Tam, and Tam is scolding her: For the steam with which she’s filled their bathroom, the perfume she’s sprayed…
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