Samuel Eli Shepherd is a culture journalist and a digital reporting and editing intern at the Forward. He can be reached at [email protected].
Samuel Eli ShepherdDigital Reporting and Editing Intern
By Samuel Eli Shepherd
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Music How a new quintet is keeping klezmer classy, and classical
Schmaltz and Pepper is bringing classical spice to the Yiddish folk music scene
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Music Jacob’s Ladder is making Jewish bluegrass music from the ‘Eretz’ up
The all-American folk trio recently performed in Canada
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Theater A zombie story about the Holocaust? This audio drama makes it work.
The dead come alive as a parable for Holocaust memory in an unorthodox new audio mini-series
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Culture A Jewish, queer ghost story where the greatest fright is family expectations
A conversation with Shelly Jay Shore on their debut novel, 'Rules For Ghosting.'
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Culture At a singles event celebrating the Jewish day of love, compatibility means agreeing on Israel and religious practice
A recent Tu B’Av party on the Upper West Side saw singles seeking out soulmates with like-minded views
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Theater ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ started at a Jewish summer camp. Now it’s making a rowdy return to Broadway
A look into the socialist Jewish summer camp origins of the campy musical theater hit
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On a painful day of Jewish mourning, here are some movies that tackle grief, sadness and Jewish suffering in a kid-friendly way
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Film & TV How the Israel-Hamas war could affect ‘The Last of Us’ Season 2
The online backlash against the video game source material and its Israeli-American co-creator, explained
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