Mira Fox is a reporter at the Forward. Get in touch at [email protected] or on Twitter @miraefox.
Mira FoxStaff Writer
By Mira Fox
-
Culture In HBO’s ‘A Perfect Life,’ Judaism is a crucial issue — until it isn’t
“Vida Perfecta,” or “A Perfect Life” in English, opens with a breakup. Specifically, it opens with Maria breaking up with her fiancé Gustavo over and argument about whether or not one should have an enema before anal sex. Their argument is conducted in front of a real estate agent as they purchase an apartment together…
-
Culture King Solomon wore a unique purple; now we know what that looked like
“Royal purple” is a phrase for a reason — the color was hard to produce in an era when most dyes came from vegetables. The shade, referred to as argaman or tekhelet in Hebrew, is a particularly vibrant hue mentioned only a few times in the Bible, when describing drapings for kings, a carriage for…
-
Culture This 25-year-old Ashkenazi-British-Sudanese comedian is blowing up on TikTok
Lukas Arnold talks about his life all the time; it’s central to the comedy that has earned him 1.1 million followers on TikTok. And yet, the more he talks about himself, the more of an enigma he becomes. The 25-year-old comedian and voice actor’s dad is Ashkenazi, with ancestry in Poland. His mom is half…
-
News Every antisemitic thing Marjorie Taylor Greene has said and done (so far)
Editor’s Note: This story will be updated as necessary. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Jewish space laser post shot her into the Jewish press; there was just too much there, comedic and serious, to give it up. While the statement was made before her election, she has refused to apologize for her comments, according to CNN. Antisemitism…
-
Culture Once upon a time, Jewish pirates ruled the seas
Sea shanties have taken the internet by storm. They’re catchy, they’re historical, and they may even have been sung on ships named “The Queen Esther” and “The Shield of Abraham.” That is to say, they may have been sung by Jewish pirates. Jews settled throughout the Caribbean from the mid-17th century to the mid-19th century….
-
Culture Did the Bernie meme become sexist?
You know the image: the mittens, the huddled posture, the flyaway white hair, the manila envelope. At this point, the iconic picture of Bernie Sanders at Joe Biden’s inauguration has been burned into your brain with the force of a thousand memes. Collectively delighted, the internet edited him into photos, curated outfits based on his…
-
Culture To understand the GameStop story, watch ‘The Big Short’
So you’re trying to understand the GameStop story, in which a subreddit banded together and managed to bankrupt a hedge fund, causing utter chaos on Wall Street all week. If you’re not involved in finance, it can be pretty confusing, full of jargon like pulling a “short squeeze” and requiring a decent grasp of how…
-
Culture Holocaust survivors are now receiving their first doses of the vaccine — and fame
Elderly Holocaust survivors are among the most susceptible to the current pandemic; 900 died of Covid in Israel alone. That is why it was heartening to see, on Twitter, one 97-year-old Holocaust survivor grinning because she had just beaten Covid, and another smiling after receiving her first dose of the vaccine. My 97-Year-old Great Grandma,…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
- 2
News Antisemitism group keeps board member who emailed Epstein on the legality of transporting minors for sex
- 3
Fast Forward AIPAC fails its first test in the midterms
- 4
Fast Forward Mamdani appoints Phylisa Wisdom, progressive Jewish leader, to run Office to Combat Antisemitism
In Case You Missed It
-
News Proposed laws aim to test the Supreme Court’s ban on public school-sponsored prayer
-
Letters Why the Super Bowl antisemitism ad uses a familiar slur
-
Opinion My university wants me to sign a loyalty oath — am I in America or Vichy France?
-
Fast Forward From far corners of the Jewish world, the women of Chabad gather in freezing Brooklyn
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
