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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The Schmooze Who Is Irena Sendler, The Catholic Holocaust Hero Who Gal Gadot Will Play In Upcoming Biopic?
When Germany invaded Warsaw in 1939, Irena Sendler was just a 29-year-old Polish social worker. By the end of the war, she had saved untold thousands of Jews. Even a death sentence and imprisonment did not stop Irena Sendler from saving Jewish children. That’s a true wonder woman. Gal Gadot, who dazzled the world as…
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Life Celebrate International Pasta Day With Instagram’s Most Mouthwatering Kugels
Since ancient times, Jews have marked the harvest season with a venerable—nay, sacred—ritual. It’s called … International Pasta Day. OK, so maybe it’s not venerable, and maybe it’s not totally Jewish. But International Pasta Day is real, it’s here, and we at the Forward are eager to observe it. And what better way to celebrate…
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Culture From the Archives: Sukkot Through the Ages
Before Jews could post about #Sukkot on Instagram, they saw it documented in our pages. From tenements in New York to small towns in Poland and Algeria, the Forward’s cameras have roamed the world for over a century, capturing the observance of ancient rites in growing Jewish communities. This year, we’ve combed the archives to…
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The Schmooze ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Season Three Trailer Asks: Can Midge Have It All?
“I’m not a prostitute, I’m a comic,” a beleaguered Miriam Maisel insists in a new trailer for the third season of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” set to premiere on December 6. When her mother demands to know what the difference is, Midge snaps “Prostitutes get paid more.” It’s not a conversation one dreams of having…
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Life This Twitter Thread Will Keep You Too Disgusted To Eat on Yom Kippur
For generations, inherited recipes have allowed American Jews to preserve links to their immigrant ancestors and envision the lives they lived before arriving on these shores. But is grating potatoes for latkes really the iconic Jewish experience we like to think it is? It may be that a more ubiquitous rite of passage is discovering…
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The Schmooze An Undocumented Israeli Family Chases The American Dream On Netflix
Seventeen years old, with flat-ironed hair and carefully distressed jeans, Bar seems like she’d be perfectly at home at any American high school. She likes celebrating Shabbat with her parents and younger siblings, but she’s also impatient to become an “independent person.” But this seemingly ordinary case of adolescent angst is complicated by her family’s…
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The Schmooze Ivanka Trump Says ‘The Force’ Is With Her. Luke Skywalker Begs to Differ.
It’s the kind of aspirational snapshot common on Instagram: a casually perfect-looking young mother poses in a casually perfect-looking living room. Her accessories: a tuxedoed husband and three charmingly oblivious children. She’s dressed to the nines, clearly ready to head out for the night, but the (carefully controlled) mess of Legos on her tasteful coffee…
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The Schmooze Free (And Free-ish) Rosh Hashanah Services In New York
It’s a dilemma familiar to many a not-so-observant Jew as late September rolls around: fork over hundreds of dollars for High Holiday services or scandalize bubbe by skipping out altogether. Fortunately, in NYC some synagogues are opening their doors to wandering Jews during the High Holidays. Other organizations have sprung up specifically provide free and…
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