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 What Jews Can Learn From ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
When Margaret Atwood published “The Handmaid’s Tale” in 1984, the dystopian genre in literature was about to change. The books that had defined it, including Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” and George Orwell’s “1984,” had been preoccupied with the threat of socialist totalitarianism. Atwood wrote “The Handmaid’s Tale” in West Berlin, in the shadow of…
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Culture Paula Vogel’s ‘Indecent’ Leads Outer Critics Circle Nominations
Sholem Asch would be proud. Today, when the Outer Critics Circle announced the nominees for its 2017 awards, Paula Vogel’s and Rebecca Taichman’s “Indecent,” an homage to Asch’s “God of Vengeance,” racked up six nominations, making it the most-nominated play for this year’s awards. While “Indecent” was the most-nominated play, the production to gain the…
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Fast Forward After 30 Years, Robert Siegel To Depart From NPR’s ‘All Things Considered’
Robert Siegel, who has been the host of NPR’s “All Things Considered” since 1987, will step down in January 2018, the public radio broadcaster announced this morning. Siegel, born in 1947, first joined NPR in 1976. “He joined NPR as a newscaster, moved into an editor role, opened NPR’s London bureau, and as chief of…
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Culture Woman And Girl From Astonishing Holocaust Photograph Identified
In the photograph, the woman’s face is torn between joy and despair. Clutching the hand of her young daughter, she’s one of 2,500 Jewish prisoners who have just been liberated from a Nazi train moving them from Bergen-Belsen to Theresienstadt. On the hill behind her the rest of the prisoners spill out from the train,…
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The Schmooze Barbra Streisand’s 5 Greatest Performances For Her 75th Birthday
Barbra Streisand, Broadway queen, turns 75 today. To celebrate her matchless contributions to American theater and film, check out five of her best on-screen moments, from “Funny Girl” to “The Way We Were.” 1) Her haunting performance of “Papa Can You Heart Me?” in “Yentl” 2) Her impassioned pacifist speech as a young firebrand communist…
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Culture This Scientist Argues Climate Change Is Partially Responsible For The Syrian Crisis
If, during the unusually warm New York City winter of 2015, you heard that a weather phenomenon called El Niño was partly to blame, you had Mark Cane to thank for that information. El Niño, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, consists of a series of climactic changes characterized by “a warming of…
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Culture Amy Goodman Among 2017 American Academy Of Arts And Sciences Fellows
The 2017 class of new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences includes radio host Amy Goodman of “Democracy Now!,” Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, of New York University and Polin, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, and Israeli novelist David Grossman, among many others. Goodman and Kirshenblatt-Gimblett were among the 188 newly-elected Fellows…
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Fast Forward David Grossman, Amos Oz Shortlisted For Man Booker International Prize
Israeli novelists David Grossman and Amos Oz have been shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize. Grossman, who made the list for “A Horse Walks Into a Bar,” and Oz, nominated for “Judas,” were previously announced as members of this year’s longlist. They are nominated alongside their translators: For Grossman, Jessica Cohen, and for…
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