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 Meet Donald Trump’s Jewish Architect Who’s Now Helping Hillary Clinton
Between the lawsuit against Donald Trump’s eponymous “university,” reports that his performance as a real estate investor has been markedly subpar in comparison to that of his peers, and the bankruptcies declared by four of his hotels and casinos, the presidential candidate’s reputation as a businessman isn’t exactly intact. In a newly-released campaign video, Hillary…
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Art Can You Tell a Shakespeare Play By Its Poster?
Against a red background, a featureless white head, lacking its crown, opens to reveal a set of white steps descending into a black cavern. A man in profile, the barest combination of ivory skin and black robe, stares down into the almost pleading sockets of a skull in his hands. A shining, simple crown hovers…
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Culture Why Roberto Burle Marx’s Art Is Still Too Big For Museums
Walking into the Jewish Museum’s new exhibit on Roberto Burle Marx, the Brazilian landscape architect best known for his strikingly patterned seaside pavements on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, the first thing you’ll notice is the tapestry. At 87 feet long, it occupies the back wall of the main exhibition. It’s long, lean, abstract —…
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Culture Meet the Man Who Taught Lin-Manuel Miranda All About Hamilton
In the opening song of “Hamilton,” the cast of early Americans that populates the musical repeatedly sings the title character’s name — Alexander Hamilton — their voices tinged with reverence. A similarly fascinated tone tends to emerge when people talk about Lin-Manuel Miranda, the 36-year-old composer, rapper, writer, and actor who created and stars in…
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Culture ‘Amadeus’ Playwright Peter Shaffer Was a Verbose Virtuoso
It was there on the dining room table, in my childhood home, the VHS of “Amadeus.” “The man,” the tag line began, followed by a tantalizing ellipses, “…the music…the madness…the murder…the motion picture.” Never before had the case of a film been so alluring, those taunting words presided over by a menacing figure in an…
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The Schmooze Jewish Lights Sold to Nashville’s Turner Publishing
When Stuart Matlins and his wife Antoinette founded Jewish Lights Publishing in 1990 their intentions were clear. “We decided part of our life goals was to influence and affect the Jewish future, not just talk about it and complain,” Matlins told the Forward over the phone. Since then, the small press, which grew out of…
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Life At Edit-A-Thon, Expanding Wikipedia’s Offerings on Jewish Women
If the names Asnat Barazani, Devorà Ascarelli, and Clarice Baright don’t ring a bell for you, you’re not alone. The Center for Jewish History is setting out to change that. Barazani, a 17th-century scholar in Kurdistan, Ascarelli, a 16th-centrury poet who may have been the first Jewish women to ever have her work published, and…
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The Schmooze RBG Fans, Say Hello to Ruth Bader Gins-bug
Alright, folks: you love her on the bench, you love her on the internet, and now you get to love her as she affectionately decapitates the male with whom she’s just mated. Yes, that’s right, there is now an official Ruth Bader Ginsburg praying mantis, and we are all blessed. (For the scientific record, only…
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