Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at [email protected] or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
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By Talya Zax
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Culture Julie Roginsky’s Lawyers Ask New York Human Rights Commission To Investigate Fox News
Lawyers for Julie Roginsky, the Russian-Jewish Fox News contributor who yesterday filed a sexual harassment suit against the network,its former Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes and current co-president Bill Shine, have filed letters with the New York City Commission on Human Rights and the New York City Corporation Counsel requesting the two city government entities…
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Culture Dana Schutz’s Emmett Till Painting Temporarily Removed From Whitney Biennial
The 2017 Whitney Biennial, while mostly well-reviewed, has been dominated by controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting “Open Casket,” based on a photograph of Emmett Till in his coffin. Till was a 14-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of flirting with a white woman. His lynching, and his…
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Fast Forward Roman Polanski Must Return To U.S. To Resolve Rape Case, Court Rules
Roman Polanski must return to the United States to have a 40-year-old sexual assault case resolved, a Los Angeles County judge ruled on Monday. Polanski, 83, had sought assurance that if he returned to the United States to seek a final resolution to the case, which concerns his unlawful sexual contact with a minor in…
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Culture Protesting Trump, ‘1984’ To Screen In Theaters Around The World
References to George Orwell’s dystopian classic “1984” have proliferated since the inauguration of President Trump, at one point sending the book to the top of Amazon’s bestseller list. Tomorrow, Al Jazeera reports, close to 200 movie theaters worldwide will screen Michael Radford’s film adaptation of the novel, originally released in — wait for it —…
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Culture Naomi Alderman Named Finalist For Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction
British-Jewish novelist Naomi Alderman is among the six finalists for this year’s Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. Alderman, whose nominated novel “The Power” imagines a world in which women suddenly invert the gender status quo, forcing men into fearful seclusion, previously won the 2006 Orange Prize for Fiction for her novel “Disobedience.” That prize became…
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Culture Jewish Book Council Announces 2017 Sami Rohr Prize Finalists
The Jewish Book Council has announced the finalists for the 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. The finalists, known as the Sami Rohr Prize Fellows, are Paul Goldberg for “The Yid,” Idra Novey for “Ways to Disappear,” Daniel Torday for “The Last Flight of Poxl West,” Adam Ehrlich Sachs for “Inherited Disorders: Stories, Parables…
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Fast Forward Fox News, Roger Ailes Hit With Sexual Harassment Suit By Julie Roginsky
Julie Roginsky, Democratic strategist and Fox News contributor, has filed a sexual harassment suit against the network, its former CEO and Chairman Roger Ailes, and current co-president Bill Shine, NPR reports. The action alleges that beginning in 2015, when Roginsky, who is of Russian-Jewish heritage, started appearing as a temporary host of Fox’s “The Five,”…
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Culture Major Arthur Szyk Collection Given To University Of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley’s Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life is about to become home to a major collection of the works and personal papers of Arthur Szyk, thanks to a gift from the Bay Area-based Taube Philanthropies. Szyk, who was born to a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland in 1894, was a…
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