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 Amy Schumer To Make Broadway Debut — In A Steve Martin Play
Controversial comic superstar Amy Schumer will, come November, make her first appearance on the Great White Way. Schumer, who rose to fame through her Comedy Central series “Inside Amy Schumer” and recently starred in the critical flop “Snatched” alongside Goldie Hawn, will be appearing in Steve Martin’s marital comedy “Meteor Shower,” The New York Times…
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Culture Does Stephen Miller Really Want To Take On Emma Lazarus?
Stephen Miller, the white nationalist aide to President Trump took on a somewhat strange new enemy yesterday: Emma Lazarus. Lazarus, a relative of the United States’s first Jewish settler, wrote the poem “The New Colossus” to raise funds for the base of the Statue of Liberty in 1883. That poem, most famous for the lines…
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Culture Judith Jones, Editor Who Discovered Anne Frank’s Diary, Dies At 93
Judith Jones, the renowned cookbook editor who, early in her career, led the charge for “The Diary of Anne Frank” to be published in English, died yesterday at age 93. Jones, born as Judith Bailey, came upon Frank’s manuscript in a pile of rejected submissions while working as an office assistant at Doubleday in Paris…
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Culture PETA Gave Isaac Bashevis Singer An Incredibly Bizarre Posthumous Award
PETA chose what some may consider a strange way to honor the legacy of both the famed Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Warsaw Uprising, organizing a lunch, hosted by the Polish supermodel Joanna Krupa, at which they awarded Singer a posthumous PETA “Hero to Animals Award.” A PETA press release praised Singer for…
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Culture 12 Things To Do In August That Will Make You Just A Little More Jewish
Welcome to August: You’re tired of the heat. A chance to walk romantically through falling leaves — maybe even while wearing a sweater, of all things — is beginning to sound appealing, and you’ve suffered too many sunburns to be coaxed back to the pool. Never fear! With great new television premieres, music and theater…
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Culture Why Yo-Yo Ma Is Fighting To Save Louis Kahn’s Floating Concert Hall
The late architect Louis Kahn is renowned for his impact on landscapes and cityscapes around the world, from the United States to Israel to Bangladesh. But one of his most moving creations, “Point Counterpoint II” was designed to live on the water. The bad news: It’s in immediate danger of being destroyed. The good news:…
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Culture Sam Shepard, Playwright Of Biblical Proportions, Dies At 73
Sam Shepard, a playwright and actor whose work helped revolutionize American theater, died on July 30 at his home in Kentucky from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. He was 73 years old. Shepard, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his play “Buried Child” and was nominated for an Academy…
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Culture Donald Trump Is Bad At Doodling. Which Presidents Were Better?
As a wise Twitter commentator yesterday observed, we’ve lived through, uh, less stressful times. WHAT A MONTH TODAY HAS BEEN — this b (@BryanByczek) July 27, 2017 But now it’s Friday, and you can rely, probably, on having health care until at least next week. Let’s unwind with an assessment of how President Trump is…
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