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 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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The Schmooze Curious About Michael Phelps’ Bruised Shoulders? Jewish Folk Medicine Has the Answer
When Michael Phelps arrived at the pool for his first race of the 2016 Olympics, there was one question on everyone’s lips. No, it wasn’t whether the 31-year-old swimming phenomenon, the most decorated Olympian of all time, would be able to live up to his reputation as an unstoppable force in the pool. It was…
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The Schmooze WATCH: The First Clip From Woody Allen’s New Amazon TV Series
“Life doesn’t imitate art,” Woody Allen said in “Husbands and Wives,” “it imitates bad television.” Come September 30th, when the writer, director, and actor’s series “Crisis in Six Scenes” is released on Amazon video, audiences will have their first chance to see how he handles that much-maligned format. The news that Allen was creating a…
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The Schmooze 3 Things We Learned From Deborah Kass’s Lenny Interview
Deborah Kass made headlines in November when her sculpture “OY/YO” was installed in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The much-Instagrammed, bright yellow aluminum sculpture of the letters “O” and “Y,” close to 8 feet tall, reads “OY” to viewers from Brooklyn and “YO” to those from Manhattan. Earlier today, Lena Dunham’s Lenny published parts of an extensive…
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