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 Revisiting The Six-Day War, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
If you’re not spending the weekend clearing your house of chametz in preparation for Passover, have we got ideas for you! In New York City, spend your Sunday at the 92nd Street Y’s symposium on the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. The day’s last session, a discussion of the war’s long-term impact on the…
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Culture HBO To Broadcast Series Based On Elena Ferrante’s ‘My Brilliant Friend’
As the Forward reported earlier this month, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, a quartet beginning with “My Brilliant Friend,” are heading to television in a 32-part series. Now, HBO and the Italian state broadcaster Rai have announced that they’ll be shepherding the series to the screen. As previously announced, it will be directed by Saverio Costanzo,…
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Culture 7 Jews Who Know More Than Donald Trump About Susan B. Anthony
Do you know who Susan B. Anthony is? If so, congratulations: You’ve both passed high school U.S. history and impressed the President of the United States. In the latest installment of a series of blunders in which President Trump has attempted to explain famous historical figures to groups for whom they’re influential figures — the…
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Culture A Bunch Of Canadian Albert Einstein Look-Alikes Just Broke A Guinness World Record
One person dressed as Albert Einstein is a lovable eccentric, two are liable to draw jokes about disruptions in the time-space continuum, and 404 are something to positively celebrate. The next Einstein competition happening @MaRSDD – will they break world record and come up with world changing idea? pic.twitter.com/09iPJWUPQc — Joanne Thomsen (@joannethomsen) March 28,…
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Culture Barbra Streisand, Harry Richman Enter National Recording Registry
Barbra Streisand’s take on Jule Styne and Bob Merrill’s “People,” immortalized in the 1968 film “Funny Girl,” and Harry Richman’s take on Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ on the Ritz” are among this year’s inductees to the National Recording Registry. As Billboard reported, each year the Registry selects 25 songs or albums to be preserved by the…
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Culture WATCH: Trailer For Mensch Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Sequel”
The 2016 election has, so far, not turned out well for the climate: Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order initiating the unraveling of much of President Obama’s progressive legacy on climate change. But that election might do some long-term good for climate change awareness — or so, at least, hopes former Vice President and…
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Fast Forward Bob Dylan To Accept Nobel Prize This Weekend — Yes, Finally
Bob Dylan, Professional Enigma, will finally accept his Nobel Prize for Literature this weekend. Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which issues the awards, announced the news in a blog post. Dylan, she wrote, would accept the award while in Sweden to perform two concerts; the Swedish Academy, she said, would attend one…
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Culture Melvin Waskin Aimed To Educate, On Everything From Dating To The Science Of Catastrophe
Most of the people whose lives Melvin Waskin touched likely never knew his name, and that was ok. A longtime writer and producer for Coronet Instructional Media, the educational films whose scripts he penned taught students about everything from the solar system to how to date. If you recently identified a planet correctly, or chose…
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