Mira Fox is a reporter at the Forward. Get in touch at [email protected] or on Twitter @miraefox.
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Culture Disney star Raviv Ullman is ready to be your new rabbi
Raviv Ullman might have been your middle school crush when he starred in Disney’s “Phil of the Future.” Today, he’s probably more akin to your rabbi (not that you can’t have a crush on your rabbi). While Ullman still acts, he’s moved past goofy sci-fi comedies to more serious work, such as a documentary about…
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Culture The Olympic cardboard beds were finally defeated — by the Israeli baseball team
It was one of the big early stories of the Tokyo Olympics: The cardboard beds. Sure, athletes were told the beds were an attempt to reduce waste, since the materials used to make them are sustainable and easily recyclable. But in the Olympic Village and international media alike, the rumor quickly spread that the beds…
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Culture Simone Biles prioritized her health. Kerri Strug never had the chance to.
As the rhinestones on her leotards declare, Simone Biles is the G.O.A.T. — the greatest gymnast of all time. Her record-breaking flips and twists have won her 30 gold, silver and bronze medals over her years competing at the Olympics and World Championships. So when she pulled out of the Olympic women’s team gymnastics final…
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Culture Ben & Jerry’s is leaving Israeli settlements and people online are taking it very seriously
Ben & Jerry’s has historically been a very vocal advocate of social justice and environmental issues. At the top of the company’s Twitter page, a thread condemning the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is pinned. On 4/20, instead of making jokes about stoners eating ice cream, the company bought billboards to criticize racial bias…
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Culture Jews have survived a lot — and this artist is preparing us for the apocalypse
The last 16 months have felt like an apocalypse movie at many points — a global pandemic, the attack on the Capitol, a massive drought and widespread forest fires in the Western U.S., even those murder hornets that briefly made headlines. Yet to artist and architect Daniel Toretsky, the catastrophes felt familiar; Jews have faced…
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Culture To show how men gaslight women, Ilana Glazer’s pregnancy horror movie gaslights the audience
Spoiler alert for the movie “False Positive.” Pregnancy doesn’t need much embellishment to be fodder for a horror movie, what with morning sickness and ricocheting hormones, not to mention a parasitic life form feeding from you. And that’s all before you give birth. This is probably why pregnancy has inspired several horror flicks — most…
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News Antisemitism on TikTok spiked 912% says a new study. But is it accurate?
It’s no secret that antisemitism runs rampant on TikTok, the viral video sharing app. And yet when a recently released study from the University of Haifa showed a 912% increase in antisemitism on the app since 2020, the size of the spike seemed shocking. I’ve reported on TikTok for months, both on its inventive Jewish…
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Culture Canceled fashion blogger is easy to hate — but it’s no excuse for antisemitism
Leandra Medine Cohen, founder of quirky fashion site Man Repeller, said she always assumed she’d be canceled — she just thought it would be because she was a terrible leader, not because of racism or privilege. She didn’t even realize she was privileged, she said in a recent podcast interview, until last summer’s racial justice…
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