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 These Artists Called For A Boycott Of An Israeli Play. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.
On Monday, July 24, a stage adaptation of David Grossman’s novel “To the End of the Land” will make its United States premiere. But a number of prominent American theater artists wish it wouldn’t. Their numbers include the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights Lynn Nottage, Annie Baker, Bruce Norris, and Tracy Letts, as well as the directors…
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Culture Remembering Diana Trilling, Overlooked ‘Lioness’ Of American Literature
Diana Trilling, born on this day in 1905, had a complicated relationship to the world of American literature and letters. As a book critic and essayist, writing first for The Nation and then for publications including Harper’s and The New Yorker, Trilling was widely respected — Martin Amis, remembering his first meeting with her, called…
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The Schmooze Comic-Con, ‘Sondheim On Sondheim,’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
If you’re planning to spend your weekend blissed-out on a beach, we don’t blame you. If you’re looking to beat the heat, check out our top picks for weekend plans, below. 1) Read Look back to an iconic summer or two of the past with The New Yorker’s newly-released “The 60s: The Story of a…
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The Schmooze ‘A Bunch Of Jews’ Is An Actual Panel At Comic-Con This Year
This right here, folks, is your guide to the Jewish highlights of San Diego Comic-Con 2017. True, there are a number of exciting panels on offer, from a series celebrating the centenary of legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby to Gal Gadot talking about her next appearance as Wonder Woman in the upcoming “Justice League.”…
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Culture Tony Kushner Is Writing A Play About ‘Very Boring’ Donald Trump
Donald Trump, when he was elected president, likely didn’t expect that he would come to dominate America’s theater scene. Yet between the Public Theater’s headline-making representation of a Trump-like despot-in-the-making in “Julius Caesar,” playwright Robert Schenkkan’s imagination of a Trump-created dystopia in “Building the Wall,” and the rushed import of a British stage adaptation of…
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Culture Ohad Naharin, Batsheva Dance Company Artistic Director, Is Stepping Down
Ohad Naharin, the longtime artistic director of Tel Aviv’s Batsheva Dance Company, will step down from his post in September 2018. As The New York Times reports, Naharin will be replaced in his position by Gili Navot, a former dancer and rehearsal director with the company. Naharin will stay on as Batsheva’s house choreographer. Naharin…
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Culture WATCH: Daniel Barenboim Makes Plea For European Unity
Daniel Barenboim, the famed and famously political pianist and conductor, delivered a moving call for European unity while conducting a BBC Proms concert by the Orchestra Staatskapelle Berlin on Sunday. “I think that the main problem today is not the policies of this country and that country and this and that,” he said to an…
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Culture 200 Years After Jane Austen’s Death, How Has She Influenced Jews?
Jane Austen, the well-loved British novelist who died 200 years ago today, mentioned Jews in only one of her novels. (That would be “Northanger Abbey,” in which the heroine shuts down a suitor’s casual anti-Semitism in a sequence of giggle-inducing awkwardness; points for Austen.) But the author has inspired Jews since her work first went…
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