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 Israeli Arab Drama “Junction 48” Wins Top TriBeCa Honors
“Junction 48,” Israeli director Udi Aloni’s exploration of the tumultuous lives of Israeli Arabs, has taken top honors in the TriBeCa Film Festival’s 2016 International Narrative Competition. Aloni is the son of Shulamit Aloni, a famous Israeli politician and advocate for Palestinian human rights; he’s echoed his mother’s activism through much of his career, and…
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Culture 3 Ways To Honor Harriet Tubman on Passover
Giving into popular, “Hamilton”-loving demand, the Treasury Department has announced that instead of replacing Alexander Hamilton with a woman on the $10 bill, they’ll be making room by knocking Andrew Jackson off the $20. And their choice to replace him? Harriet Tubman. The announcement was met with mixed responses. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew initially promised…
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Culture Molly Crabapple Explains How You Can Be an Artist and an Activist
Walking into artist and author Molly Crabapple’s apartment in New York City’s Financial District, I briefly thought I’d wandered into a painting I once studied in art history: David Teniers’ “Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in His Gallery.” The painting’s nominal focus is a group of men, archduke included, but they almost disappear beneath the riot of…
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The Schmooze When Was the Bible Really Written? New Clues Emerge.
For a text commonly thought of as foundational, it can feel odd to think that there was a time when it didn’t really exist. The Bible, though, has a birthday, and no one knows quite when it is. On Monday, a group of scholars from Tel Aviv University published a new guess. , appearing in…
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The Schmooze Calvin Trillin’s ‘Offensive’ New Yorker Poem: A Response, in Verse
The New Yorker’s April 4th issue included a poem by Calvin Trillin entitled The poem, which addressed the many varieties of Chinese food being popularized in America, struck many as having an uncomfortably Orientalist flavor (sorry). The Forward decided to respond, in verse. Oh Trillin, our food-focused, sharply-phrased poet, You’ve bungled, you’ve mis-hit, we’re sure…
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The Schmooze Cornelius Gurlitt’s Looted Art Hoard Poised for First Reveal
The art hoard of – the recluse who kept close wraps on the enormous collection amassed by his father, who worked with the Nazis to procure the artworks included – has made consistent headlines since it was discovered in 2012. Rarely have they been so promising as this: as the New York Times reports, museums…
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The Schmooze Children’s Opera Travels From Terezin to Madrid
For many, the very idea of opera is antiquated, yawn-inducing and vaguely stuffy. For Hans Krása and Arnold Schoenberg, Jewish composers whose careers were marked by rising anti-Semitism in Europe in advance of the Holocaust, it was a matter of both political and personal urgency. In Madrid, audiences are getting a chance to experience that…
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The Schmooze Broadway “Crucible” Tries To Shake Off Memory of Ted Cruz’s Performance
Let’s start by acknowledging that when discussing Ted Cruz performing in “The Crucible” it is impossible to avoid using the pun “Cruzible.” (This pun, which conjures images of Cruz as a “Grease”-era John Travolta type gyrating on a car roof whilst spouting poetic on mortality, feels oily to even write, let alone say. Poor Arthur…
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