Mira Fox is a reporter at the Forward. Get in touch at [email protected] or on Twitter @miraefox.
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Culture The scariest part of ‘The Vow’ is that it makes a cult look consensual
“There’s a Jewish word, mishpucha, which means family. As soon as I met Lauren, I knew she was mishpucha,” Sarah Edmondson says of Lauren Salzman, the woman who would eventually coerce her to brand her pelvis in an excruciating initiation rite into a secretive enclave billing itself as a women’s empowerment group. It’s a particularly…
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News Orthodox Jews quietly defy coronavirus restrictions to celebrate last of the High Holidays
Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn proceeded with some indoor and outdoor holiday celebrations in their synagogues over the weekend, in defiance of restrictions limiting all religious gatherings to 10 or fewer people in neighborhoods where the rates of coronavirus infection have gone sharply up in recent weeks. On Saturday evening in Borough Park — a neighborhood…
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News ‘My conscience is clean;” Dani Dayan speaks about the end of his term
Comments poured in during Wednesday’s “exit interview” with Dani Dayan, Israel’s Consul General for New York, moderated by Jodi Rudoren and Andrew Silow-Carroll, editors-in-chief of the Forward and The Jewish Week respectively. Dayan’s term is ending during a particularly tense moment in the Israeli-American relationship, and the audience’s chat box and submissions to the Q&A…
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Culture How about a second season of ‘Unorthodox’ to cure the ills of the first?
The response to the Netflix hit show “Unorthodox” has been huge. Breaking expectations and hitting the Netflix top ten list in such unlikely locations as Saudi Arabia, the show has been the entry point for many viewers to learn about the Hasidic community. However, as the show has become the de facto spokesperson for Judaism,…
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Culture Mindy Kaling’s hit teen comedy has a serious Jewish problem
“Never Have I Ever,” Netflix’s newest teen comedy from Mindy Kaling — the comedian best known for her writing and acting on “The Office” and “The Mindy Project” — has been broadly celebrated for its diversity, and widely hailed as the perfect quarantine watch to binge. That praise is in many ways deserved: The show…
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Life Can you date in quarantine? Maybe. A few experts weighed in.
On Tuesday, May 5, the Forward hosted a virtual conversation on “Coupling in quarantine: distant dating and close cohabiting. ” Abby Sher, co-writer of the Forward’s Bintel Brief advice column, moderated a conversation including David Yarus, founder of JSwipe, the largest Jewish dating app; Rayna Greenberg, social influencer and podcast co-host of ‘Girls Gotta Eat’;…
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News Quarantine in a cooperative house
I just moved to New York City at the beginning of this year, and was just beginning to get my feet under me, to choose a neighborhood coffee shop, when everything shut down. Each new friend I’d made has now fled the city to ride out the pandemic with family or partners, wanting to be…
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Life Some of our favorite Jewish coronavirus memes
The spread of COVID-19 is impacting lives around the world, forcing universities, schools, and offices across the country to close, or switch to remote. The Jewish community has been heavily affected. With lackluster Purim celebrations and travel plans for the upcoming Passover season being canceled, it can feel like everything good is now forbidden. Luckily,…
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