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 Folksbiene’s KulturfestNYC Prepares to Take City By Storm
In 2015, the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene celebrated its 100th anniversary in grand style, producing, in June, KulturfestNYC, New York’s first international Jewish performing arts festival, and in December, a highly-acclaimed revival of Yiddish operetta “The Golden Bride.” In 2016, they have no intention of letting that momentum go. Starting June 6th KulturfestNYC is back, expanded,…
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The Schmooze New Rachel Weisz Film ‘Denial’ Given September Release
“Denial,” the film adaptation of Deborah Lipstadt’s book “History on Trial: My Day in Court With a Holocaust Denier” has a release date: September 30, 2016. The film will tell the story of Lipstadt’s legal struggle with controversial English historian David Irving, who filed a libel suit against her after she described his writings as…
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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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