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 Mocking Misogyny On Twitter Is Self-Defeating. Here’s Why.
One morning when I was 15 years old, a junior in high school, I decided to straighten my hair. This was a big deal; I was in a sweatshirt phase, having decided that the speediest way to deal with not having what I thought of as traditional good looks was to ignore my looks altogether….
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Culture The 27 Poems You Have To Read For National Poetry Month
“In a political culture of managed spectacles and passive spectators, poetry appears as a rift, a peculiar lapse, in the prevailing mode,” wrote Adrienne Rich in her 1993 essay “Someone is Writing a Poem.” Later, in the same essay, she tried to explain just how: “In the wash of poetry the old, beaten, worn stones…
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Film & TV A Film About The Blight Of Anti-Semitism Dominated Austria’s Box Office — In 1924
In the end, the Jews come back. They’re warmly dressed, smiling, clean and apparently none the worse for wear. It’s a convivial scene, a meeting between men who misunderstood each other but never meant harm. Two young girls in light-colored dresses present flowers, in recognition and appreciation: We’re so glad you’re here. The end of…
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Film & TV What Movies Do You Need To Watch To Understand America?
What movies make essential viewing for someone seeking to understand the United States? Ask Martin Scorsese, and he might say — as he did, per a Film Journal International report, at a recent panel discussion in New York — that movies that meet the criteria “look squarely at the struggles, violent disagreements and the tragedies…
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The Schmooze Clarice Lispector, ‘The Zen Diaries Of Garry Shandling’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
Like you, many of us at the Forward will be spending much of this weekend focused on Passover. As you prepare for the holiday, make time for some of the Forward’s most powerful articles about it: Founding editor Ab Cahan’s newly translated essay of his first Passover in America, Itzik Gottesman’s account of Eastern European…
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Art What Does It Mean To Inhabit A Jewish Place?
The nicest way to view the Jewish Museum’s new exhibit “Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine,” the London-based artist’s first solo show in the United States, is alone. As the last straggler at a recent preview showing of the exhibit, I wandered in near solitude through the playfully arranged last section, called “Le Jardin…
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Culture When Nora Ephron Eviscerated Ayn Rand In The New York Times
When Nora Ephron passed away in 2012, you may have caught a mention, in her New York Times obituary of a “tart, sharply observed” profile of Ayn Rand she had penned in the 1960s. The idea might have struck you as odd: Ephron on Rand? Sure, both were Jewish writers who were among the defining…
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Culture Indian Publishers Yank Children’s Book That Claimed Hitler Was A Great Leader
The publishers of an Indian children’s book that included Adolf Hitler on a list of “amazing leaders” have yanked the title from sale, following an outcry sparked by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, The Guardian reports. The book “Leaders,” which had been listed on its publisher’s website under the title “Great Leaders,” was published in 2016…
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