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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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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Culture At a Yiddish music festival in bucolic Massachusetts, tradition is everything — and nothing
I attended Yidstock's 10th anniversary and found klezmer puns, folk dance flourishes and closed-toed sandals galore.
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Culture How a pathbreaking gay legislator earned his nickname
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Culture A tribute to Leopold Bloom and two different takes on motherhood: The Jewish books you need to know this month
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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Culture New Yiddish stories and nonfiction for ‘Mrs. Maisel’ fans: The Jewish books you need to know this spring
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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