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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Forwarding the News In her own words: The girl whose bat mitzvah was disrupted at the Western Wall speaks out
Today: Antisemitism spikes on a far-right social media platform, everything to know about Taiwan’s Jews and, sigh, rapper apologizes for wearing swastika shirt to music festival
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Forwarding the News What Anne Frank has to do with a Forward editor’s new novel + GOP candidate said abortion is worse than the Holocaust
Today: U.S. strike kills top Al Qaeda leader, Jewish pitcher makes the big leagues and the mysteries of pickle pizza.
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Forwarding the News A sneak peek at Jared Kushner’s memoir + AIPAC spending in this week’s state primaries
Today: A possibly antisemitic tirade derailed an elite table tennis competition, and the latest in politics from our Jacob Kornbluh
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Culture 5 ways of looking at Sarah Silverman
A series of conversations among a quintet of critics after a field trip to ‘The Bedwetter’
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Archive On the brink of a new Iran Deal, our Iran coverage through the decades
The task of illuminating the complexity of Jewish life in and in relation to Iran is one the Forward has always taken seriously.
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Archive ‘Everywhere, there was death’: The Forward’s groundbreaking coverage of disaster in Ukraine — in the 1930s
The Forward’s reporting became a primary source of American information on the Holodomor, a devastating famine.
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Culture Never have I ever missed Stephen Sondheim more than I do today
The night that Stephen Sondheim died, I went out for drinks with a new friend. We played “Never Have I Ever,” a game I hadn’t even thought of since college, and I very slowly nursed a cocktail called, romantically, the Hundred-Year-Old Dream. We stayed out for hours. Sondheim was a master of human connection. He…
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Fast Forward 2 wounded in Indianapolis JCC shooting, not thought to be hate crime
Two people were wounded in a shooting at Indianapolis’ Jewish Community Center Saturday afternoon that police said they do not believe was a hate crime. The shooting, which took place in the center’s athletic complex around 2 p.m. EST, is instead thought to be related to a basketball game that turned contentious. As IndyStar reported,…
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