Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
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Culture How Facebook Live Helps Michael Hirsch Remember the Triangle Fire
Watching a visit to a cemetery streamed on Facebook Live might not sound like the most engrossing of afternoons, but in the hands of photographer, journalist, and historical researcher Michael Hirsch, it’s a rarely interesting occupation. On a recent late-August Tuesday, Hirsch wasn’t visiting just any cemetery. He was making a pilgrimage to see some…
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Culture Does Jonathan Safran Foer Matter?
Six years ago, when I was 17 years old and a month into college at Washington University in St. Louis, I met Jonathan Safran Foer. I didn’t know he was speaking on my campus until the day of the event, and I reacted with a kind of seismic glee specific to small events of seemingly…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Amy Schumer Takes Down Stockholm Hater
Amy Schumer sure knows how to take down a misogynist hater when she sees one. The comedian, writer and actress was two minutes into a performance in Stockholm last night when a heckler shouted “show us your tits!” Schumer responded in top form, pausing her act to focus in on the heckler. She interrogated him…
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The Schmooze Thanks, Vice. But Israel’s Female Soldiers Aren’t Just Pretty Faces.
Thank goodness for Vice, purveyor of useful information. After all, if it weren’t for their recent publication of Mayan Toledano’s photographs of Israeli women in the IDF, we’d have absolutely no idea that a woman continuing to be, well, a woman while in the army was actually an act of protest. Toledano is an Israeli-born,…
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The Schmooze “War Paint” Starring Patti Lupone Nominated For Top Chicago Theater Awards
The new musical “War Paint,” which tells the story of the 20th-century makeup mavens Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein, has been nominated for five of Chicago’s Equity Jeff Awards, the region’s top theatrical awards. The musical, which closed at the Goodman Theater on August 21st, starred Christine Ebersole as Arden and Patti LuPone as Rubinstein….
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The Schmooze Paula Vogel’s ‘Indecent’ Scouted For Broadway
Just after Paula Vogel’s new play “Indecent” premiered Off-Broadway at the Vineyard Theater in April, Vogel spoke to the Forward for a feature on the production. “Would I like this show to be on Broadway? You bet,” she said. “I would put on a sandwich board and walk the street in front of the theater…
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The Schmooze Meet The Businessman Behind Montreal’s $1,000 Shave
As a suggestion for those male politicians who have been embroiled in scandals over the cost of their haircuts – French President Francois Holland, the now-forgotten John Edwards, Bill Clinton – it might be best to avoid Montreal’s most unnecessarily luxurious men’s salon, Notorious. As The Star’s Giuseppe Valiante reported on August 28th, the shop…
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Culture The Earth Moved For Them — Did It Move For You?
The Louisville Jewish Community Center has had a garden for years, but never the staff to make the most of it. For Michael Fraade, a member of the first cohort of Hazon’s JOFEE Fellowship who is spending the year working on the JCC’s environmental programming, that garden has the potential to change the ways in…
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