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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Film & TV When a Racist Hungary Politician Finds Out He’s Jewish
‘It almost reads like a gag,” Sam Blair said. “Have you heard about the fascist politician who found out he was a Jew?” Blair was talking about Csanád Szegedi, a former leader of Hungary’s extremist right-wing Jobbik party. Jobbik is widely, but not officially, associated with anti-Semitism; as an example, in the run-up to the…
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Culture How I Fell in Love With Justice Louis Brandeis
At our last meeting before Nationals, as a symbol of good luck, Beth and Joe gave each of the five of us — Cora, Sarah, Will, Joseph and me — a small blue bear with “Colorado” embroidered on its chest. It was April 2009, and we were sitting in Joe’s offices in an airy old…
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The Schmooze At Age 96, Henry Heimlich Saves a Life With His Heimlich Maneuver
In his career as a chest surgeon, Henry Heimlich invented techniques and devices that have saved thousands of lives, but it’s only as a near-centenarian he’s used the most famous – the Heimlich maneuver – to save one of his own. The 96-year-old Cincinnati resident recently performed the maneuver in his senior living center, where…
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The Schmooze Raise a Glass to Manischewitz on #NationalWineDay
Adulthood: when you stop dreading Passover Seders because you have to wait to eat, and start looking forward to them because of those famous four cups of wine. It’s National Wine Day today, giving us a great reason to raise a glass to Manischewitz, the sickly-sweet concoction that is, more often than not, the contents…
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The Schmooze Sholem Asch’s Scandalous ‘God of Vengeance’ to Get Yiddish Rep Revival
On this day in 1923, the entire cast of Sholem Asch’s Yiddish play “God of Vengeance” was arrested for obscenity on the opening night of their English Broadway production, which featured Broadway’s first lesbian kiss. Almost a hundred years later, amidst an upsurge of interest in “God of Vengeance” sparked by Paula Vogel’s new tribute…
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Music When Watching Unbearable Tragedy Is Far Too Bearable — Especially When Ute Lemper Sings
‘I’m a mother of four children,” Ute Lemper was saying, fingers toying with the handle of her coffee cup, “and singing these songs, telling these terrible destinies and tales of death, is almost impossible.” Lemper sat across from me at Nice Matin, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The lunchtime conversations surrounding us hummed with an…
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The Schmooze Trailer for Philip Roth Film “Indignation” Sets Logan Lerman Up as Star
It’s unlikely that when Logan Lerman stepped into his first starring role in the fantastical “Percy Jackon & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief,” in which he played the titular Percy, many pegged him as a young actor who’d be perfect for the next Philip Roth adaptation. Yet the buzz is that Lerman, who stars as…
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The Schmooze Itzhak Perlman Says Lifelong Values Forced Him To Scrap North Carolina Concert Over Transgender Bathroom Ban
Itzhak Perlman, the famed Israeli-American violinist who performed at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, has become the latest musician to cancel an appearance in North Carolina over the state’s recent bill curtailing antidiscrimination policies for people identifying as LGBT. “As my fans know, I have spent a lifetime advocating against discrimination towards those with physical disabilities…
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