Mira Fox is a reporter at the Forward. Get in touch at [email protected] or on Twitter @miraefox.
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By Mira Fox
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Culture Bernie, please be my matchmaker
On Friday morning, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour. In the midst of his impassioned speech, he slid in this line: “You got young people who want to go to school, want to socialize, want to date, want to do things that young people do. And they…
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Culture Is interrupting inherently Jewish (and inherently rude)?
Are Jews just inherently rude? The stereotype — whether employed in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” or applied to Bernie Sanders — is that Jews speak over each other, shout and interrupt. Sanders even got in trouble for it, people complaining that he shouted too much during his campaign, while Jews on Twitter leaped to his…
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Culture Previously on ‘Shtisel’: Catch up before Season 3 arrives on Netflix
A lot has happened since the last season of “Shtisel” aired in 2015. Season three — which is already airing in Israel, and will be available on Netflix March 25 — will pick up four years after the last season ended, but it’s hard to remember where we left off. Out here in the real…
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Culture New technology can bring Anne Frank to life — but should it?
A yellowed photo of a man in round glasses glances up and smiles sadly at you before turning to stare into the distance. He has mussed hair and a mustache, and is wearing an old fashioned shirt, his expression melancholy. It seems like something out of Harry Potter, or even a horror movie, but it’s…
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Culture This frum vet travels the world, treating elephants and jaguars — and still keeps kosher
Dr. Gabby Zonenshine — aka Gabby Wild — is what kids dream of when they say they want to grow up to be veterinarians — she is a wildlife vet, who travels the world to treat animals in the field, including jaguars, toucans and more. Her new book “Wild Vet Adventures,” published by National Geographic…
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Culture The CPAC stage was shaped like the Othala rune…which is what?
At the just-wrapped Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, headlining speaker Donald Trump made an inflammatory speech from a strange, zig-zagging stage. The speech, of course, drew attention, but it featured largely the kind of content we have grown to expect from the former president. The stage itself, however, drew anger for its shape —…
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News On the scene: Photos from a pandemic Purim in Brooklyn
A ninja in moon boots. Rectangular brothers, a Rubix cube and washing machine. Many a princess. A few questionable Native American costumes, complete with feather headdress and brownface paint. Purim fell on a warm and sunny day in New York City, after weeks of snow, and the kids were out in force in the Haredi…
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Culture TikTok didn’t know Jews of color existed. This frum Black Jew is teaching them.
I met Tony Westbrookin Jerusalem, in 2016, when we both studied at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies. Tony was a large presence in the program; he was known for hosting beautiful, multi-course Shabbat meals and making soup to deliver to anyone in the program who got sick. Today, Tony is the Assistant Director of…
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