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 This Scion Of Jewish Humor Tried To Stop Trump’s Wall — With Art
If you ask any given member of the self-declared resistance to President Trump what they dislike about his policies, they’ll likely respond along ideological lines, protesting his administration’s attitude to immigrants, Muslims, or the environment – to name just a few of-the-moment issues. Sarah Zapolsky, a researcher and social science analyst who works in the…
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Slideshows The Lost Synagogues of Europe
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Culture Why Did Son Of Jewish Radicals Write A Play About Muslim Americans?
Zach Galifianakis, a comic who has mastered the art of making things so unfunny as to be hilarious, hosts a notoriously awkward online talk show called “Between Two Ferns.” In it, he seats himself and a guest – past participants have included Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Justin Bieber – between two leafy specimens, and…
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Culture How A Feminist Scholar Revealed Sylvia Plath’s Allegations Of Ted Hughes’s Abuse
The literary world has been recently abuzz over reports that a letter written by poet and novelist Sylvia Plath, which has never been made public, alleges that her husband, the poet Ted Hughes, physically abused her two days before she miscarried their second child. The letter, written to Plath’s American psychiatrist and frequent correspondent Dr….
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Culture 62 Years Ago Today, the Jewish World Lost Its Greatest Genius
On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein passed away. In the following days, the groundbreaking physicist’s death was met with grief on all fronts. Then-President Dwight Eisenhower eulogized the scientist, commenting “No other man contributed so much to the vast expansion of 20th century knowledge.” The New York Times, in an obituary, lauded Einstein’s moral courage,…
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Culture Forward Writers Earn Two Deadline Club Nominations
Two writers for the Forward have been named finalists for the 2017 Deadline Club Awards. Simi Horwitz is a finalist in the category of Reporting by a Newspaper with Circulation Under 100,000 for her three-part series on Hasidic women. The first item of that series focused on the women helming Orthodox newspapers, the next on…
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Culture ‘Oslo,’ Newly Opened On Broadway, Will Head To The Silver Screen
J.T. Rogers’s “Oslo,” which premiered Off-Broadway last spring and opened on Broadway on April 13th, will be moving to the silver screen. According to The Hollywood Reporter, “La La Land” producer Marc Platt will spearhead the play’s screen adaptation. The film will be directed by Barlett Sher, who has directed both New York productions of…
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Culture ‘Veep’ Takes On Trump’s Washington, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
This weekend, as you take breaks from thinking up creative things to do with matzah — it’s a hard pastime to turn away from, we know — turn your attention first to a host of exciting new books. In nonfiction, there’s Dani Shapiro’s memoir “Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage,” Ben Greenman’s “Dig If You Will the…
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