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 Get High-nukkah Started With This Pot Latke Song
Should we just call it High-nukkah? MC Flow has broken into this year’s witty Hanukkah songs field with her new video “Pot in the Latkes.” She’s a white woman who happens to rap, and given that her song is a paean to the ability of bubbe’s potato pancakes to get the party started, she’s clearly…
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The Schmooze Six13 Parody ‘Whip/Nae Nae’ and ‘Hotline Bling’ for Hanukkah
Has Hanukkah started early? Yesterday we wrote about and today we have the pleasure of bringing you yet another Hanukkah-themed cover of a song – well, actually, two. A capella groups of the world, the Forward now challenges you to bring us covers in this style for the next six days, so we can have…
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Culture 8 Nights, 16 Books: A Book Lover’s Guide to Hanukkah
The holidays are, among many other things, a time for reading and a time for schmaltz. The two, combined, give you a sentiment expressed by the beloved writer Neil Gaiman — whose books, by the way, make for excellent sit-down-and-read-it-in-a-night-as-the-snow-falls-outside fare — when he once said, “A book is a dream that you hold in…
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The Schmooze Adele’s ‘Hello’ Gets a Hanukkah Parody, Because Obviously
It was only a matter of time before someone realized that Adele’s recent hit “Hello” would take very, very well to a makeover as “Shalom.” Comedian Ari Blau has given us that makeover, complete with unrepentantly flat singing, more applesauce than anyone in their right mind would feel comfortable with, and some surprised-looking grocery store…
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Culture Why Israel Is One of the World’s Most Financially Literate Nations
Israel ranks among the best in the world when it comes to financial literacy, according to a new survey released by S&P Ratings, Gallup, the World Bank and the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC) at George Washington University. “We didn’t have a comprehensive measure of financial literacy that would cover all the countries,” said…
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The Schmooze Jews Dominate ‘Most Valuable Comedians’ List
Four comedians with Jewish roots – Amy Schumer, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Jason Segel – have been named to Vulture’s list of . The list was released Thursday as a follow-up list to Vulture’s annual ranking of the 100 most valuable Hollywood stars, published last week. Stars who made the list were ranked based…
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News Family Blasts No Jail Time for Israeli Officer Who Beat Palestinian-American Teen
The Florida family of a Palestinian-American teen beaten by Israeli police slammed the decision to free an officer without any prison time as “definitely not justice.” “It’s typical,” said Suhad Abukhdeir, the aunt of Tariq Abu Khdeir, whose brutal 2014 beating in Jerusalem was captured on videotape. “There’s nothing else to expect.” Tariq Abu Khdeir…
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Fast Forward Will Sheldon Adelson Pack the House at GOP Debate?
In case you haven’t heard, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is hosting the next Republican presidential debate at his Venetian hotel in Las Vegas. That has some GOP candidates nervous that the billionaire might try to pack the house to sway perceptions of the Sin City showdown on December 15, which will be televised on CNN….
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