Talya Zax is the Forward’s innovation editor. Contact her at zax@forward.com or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxInnovation Editor
By Talya Zax
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Forwarding the News Marking Roe’s 50th anniversary after its demise + Harvard reverses position on Israel critic
GooToday: An AI chat bot wants you to empathize with Joseph Goebbels, allegations that Rep. George Santos used a fake Jewish name to bring in donations for a GoFundMe, and Arsenal football club calls out antisemitic fans.
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Forwarding the News The best of the New York Jewish Film Festival + the Resistance fighter who invented the abortion pill
Today: A shocking violation on an Orthodox influencer’s Instagram, Trump makes an inapt Nazi comparison, and the thrill of learning a baseball star might be Jewish.
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Forwarding the News ‘Living through them does not work’: New book calls for American Jews to rethink relationship to Israel
Today: The history of kosher kitchens in government residences, a spate of antisemitic incidents in Florida and a setback for LGBTQ students challenging policy at religious universities.
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Forwarding the News Finding artistic inspiration in Jewish burial rituals + How Kushner navigated Trump-Biden transition
Today: AI wrote this Shabbat sermon, U.N. condemns new Israeli sanctions on Palestinians, and our new podcast about Anne Frank.
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Forwarding the News Josh Shapiro to be PA’s third Jewish governor + Ponzi scheme targeted Orthodox Jews
Today: An alleged Ponzi scheme targeted Orthodox Jews, an antisemitic French comedian issues a controversial apology and a public figure who wore a Nazi costume — no, it’s not Prince Harry! — sparks a scandal.
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Bintel Brief My friends won’t take a COVID-19 test before seeing me. Should I drop them?
Bintel says: Your hurt feelings are valid, but you need to hear their side of the story
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Culture How Jews helped inspire J.R.R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’
The Catholic author took inspiration from his own World War II-era friendship with the Jewish historian Cecil Roth
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Culture Fleishman is in trouble — but in this show, so is everyone else
One cat and two human Brooklynites live vicariously through the exploits of FX's morally bereft Upper East Side couple
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