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 Elena Ferrante Novels To Be Adapted For TV — By Director Of Film About Israeli Occupation
In the last few years, Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, which concluded with 2014’s “The Story of the Lost Child,” have taken the literary world by storm. Now, Italian director Saverio Costanzo will spearhead their adaptation into a 32-episode television series. While the novels’ imminent adaptation for television was first announced in February, Costanzo’s involvement is…
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Culture Eli Wallach And Anne Jackson Archives Find University Of Texas Home
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, a research library dedicated to maintaining the word of artists and writers, will provide a permanent home for the papers of Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson. The married couple, method actors who met when both were cast in a 1946 Broadway production of Tennessee…
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Culture At The National Jewish Book Awards, Nostalgia — And An Acrobatic Tie — Reigned Supreme
As literature elevates, it is occasionally important to elevate literature, which is, perhaps, why the 2017 National Jewish Book Awards took place in a Manhattan penthouse with a view so stunning as to distract a journalist from her notes. And as literature delights with piquant details, it was appropriate that Michael Chabon, attending to receive…
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Life How Are Jewish Organizations Celebrating #InternationalWomensDay?
This International Women’s Day marks the hundredth anniversary of one of the day’s most significant early iterations, the 1917 Russian women’s strike for “Bread and Peace,” which helped initiate the Russian Revolution. Four days after the strike, Czar Nicholas II abdicated, and the provisional government established in his place granted Russian women the right to…
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Culture At Abigail Pogrebin’s Book Launch, Hope For A Jewish Future
In abundance at the March 6 launch of Abigail Pogrebin’s “My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew,” among other things, were wine, a distinctly Jewish sense of goodwill, motherly advice, and petite, tastefully arranged spoonfuls of raw tuna, the last of which the event’s caterers could surely have described in more appetizing terms. More…
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Culture The Renaissance Composer Who Put Hebrew Prayers To Music Is Having A Resurgence
“Louder!” a woman hollered from the back of the auditorium. Onstage, Elam Rotem paused in the middle of a sentence. His eyebrows inched towards his hairline. It was a gentle night in late February, and the soft-spoken founder of the Israeli male vocal quintet Profeti della Quinta – which is currently based in Basel, Switzerland…
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Culture Should We Forget The Holocaust? A New Play Says Yes — And No
“If I Forget,” currently running at Manhattan’s Laura Pels Theatre, opens with two parents anxiously discussing their daughter, who is away on a Birthright trip to Israel. The 2000 Camp David Summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and President Bill Clinton has just failed – “The peace process is over,”…
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Culture Abigail Pogrebin Celebrated Every Jewish Holiday For A Year. Here’s What She Learned.
Judaism has always been a deeply felt part of Abigail Pogrebin’s identity. Still, while Pogrebin grew up attending alternative seders that put a feminist twist on the traditional Haggadah – no surprise, given that her mother, Letty Cottin Pogrebin, co-founded Ms. Magazine with Gloria Steinem – and enormous Hanukkah parties, she didn’t start to be…
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