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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Art The Jewish Museum’s new exhibit is barely Jewish. Does that matter?
A new exhibit on the early ’60s has little to do with Judaism or Jewish identity. Why is it at the Jewish Museum?
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I attended Yidstock's 10th anniversary and found klezmer puns, folk dance flourishes and closed-toed sandals galore.
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What we've read and where we've been
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For his feature film debut, Oualid Mouaness drew on boyhood memories of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon
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A series of conversations among a quintet of critics after a field trip to ‘The Bedwetter’
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Our favorite new releases, plus a trip to New York's antiquarian book fair
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In “Oh God, A Show About Abortion,” the Jewish comedian mines her own experience for jokes.
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