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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The Schmooze Here’s How Amy Schumer Should Respond to Kurt Metzger’s Rape Comments
The latest public incident of rape mansplaining and victim-blaming — incident, mind, not controversy; publicly disrespecting and undermining women isn’t controversial, it’s just wrong — has centered on an unlikely figure: Amy Schumer. In a now-deleted Facebook post, comedian Kurt Metzger, who has written for Schumer’s Comedy Central Show “Inside Amy Schumer,” lambasted the decision…
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The Schmooze Zac Efron Surprises Simone Biles at Rio Olympics — With a Kiss!
Reigning Team USA Olympics queen Simone Biles — well, queen in land-based sports; we have to make room on the throne for our girl Katie Ledecky — has won four golds and one bronze in Rio. Her mind-blowing gymnastic ability and poise has also won her the hearts of Americans across the country. Among them?…
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Culture NYC Fringe Play Tells Stories of Biblical Women — But Where Are the Jews?
“The Bible Women’s Project,” playing in Manhattan through August 24th as part of NYC Fringe, is a brave piece of theater. Coming from Eastern Nazarene College, a non-denominational Christian liberal arts college outside of Boston, the production grew out of a simple but daunting task: have a group of women read all the stories of…
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The Schmooze Mazel Tov! Wolf Blitzer Becomes a Grandfather!
Grisly-bearded CNN host Wolf Blitzer can add a new title to his resumé: grandfather. Late last week, his daughter Ilana gave birth to a son named Ruben Daniel Snider. CNN announced the birth yesterday, sharing with it an adorable photo of Blitzer holding his new grandson. Blitzer’s colleague Jake Tapper shared a screenshot of the…
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The Schmooze Playwright Pens Blistering Open Letter to Member of Trump’s Billionaire Trust
Writer Larry Kramer isn’t in favor of staying on the sidelines when he sees a crisis unfolding in the LGBTQ community. He’s known for his 1985 play “The Normal Heart,” which explored responses within the gay community to the HIV-AIDS crisis, and he co-founded the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC), the world’s largest private organization…
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Opinion Donald Trump’s 2nd Amendment Rhetoric Has Terrifying Implications For Domestic Violence
This past Tuesday, Donald Trump told crowds at a North Carolina rally that “if [Hillary] gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know.” The statement was widely greeted with shock: suggesting that violence should be used against…
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Culture Can Israeli Startup Use Gene Therapy To Cure Cancer?
In 1944 Harvard installed Mark I, a computerized calculator, to aid physics professor John von Neumann’s work on the Manhattan Project. The one-of-a-kind machine took up most of a room. Today, for $500, you can keep an exponentially more rapid and versatile smartphone in your pocket. Imagine what similarly rapid technological growth might look like…
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The Schmooze Israeli-Directed Richard Gere Feature Acquired By Sony Pictures Classics
Earlier this week, Sony Pictures Classics acquired the rights to Israeli director Joseph Cedar’s “Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer” in North America, Asia outside of Korea, Eastern Europe, Scandanavia, and Benelux. The fixer in question is played by Richard Gere, who co-stars in the film with Charlotte Gainsbourg,…
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