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 John Lewis Turns 77 — Here’s How He Honored Elie Wiesel
Today John Lewis — civil rights movement hero, longtime Congressional representative, National Book Award-winner, preacher of the importance of seeking out “good trouble” — turns 77. Little speaks to Lewis’s significance as well as his own words. Whether he’s speaking about his own history, from his childhood in rural Alabama to his place on the…
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Culture Anne Frank Center Calls Trump’s Statement On Anti-Semitism ‘Condescending’ And ‘Pathetic’
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,” Anne Frank wrote in her famous diary. She would likely be proud of an institution bearing her name, the Anne Frank Center For Mutual Respect, which has wasted no time positioning itself as an outspoken critic of President…
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The Schmooze Paul Newman’s Lost Film, And More To Watch, Read, And Do This Weekend
With a long weekend ahead, you have even more time to take in the best cultural events in New York, Washington D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles. If you’re in New York, don’t miss the first public screening in over half a century of Paul Newman’s short film “On the Harmfulness of Tobacco.” Before you go,…
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Film & TV Why An Iranian ‘Death Of A Salesman’ Makes Arthur Miller Even More Relevant
Midway through Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman,” Emad, the actor and schoolteacher who serves as the Oscar-nominated film’s protagonist, seizes one of his student’s phones, hoping to delete photos the student has taken of him sleeping. He castigates the boy for the risqué images he finds, telling him his father needs to look at them. A…
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Culture The Secret Jewish History Of Theater’s Most Famous Skull
Children are often told they can be anything they want when they grow up; they’re less commonly informed that the same rule applies when they die. After all, the philosopher Jeremy Bentham requested that his body be embalmed and put to service as the mascot of University College London, where his physical remains still cheerfully…
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Culture Nazi Art Dealer’s Looted Collection Will Receive First Exhibits Next Fall
After a series of stops and starts, the art hoard of Cornelius Gurlitt — which will never stop sounding like the title of a sequel to “From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” — will receive its first public exhibits this fall. As The New York Times’s Alison Smale reported, the Kunstmuseum…
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The Schmooze Mensch Alert: Drake Tried To Help Stop Man From Jumping Off Bridge
It’s not exactly news, since he didn’t exactly do anything, but we’re still kvelling over Drake right now. Word is that when the rapper’s tour bus encountered stalled traffic after a performance in Manchester, England this past weekend, and the rapper learned the backup was due to police attempting to persuade a man on a…
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Culture New Jason Isaacs Thriller Created Fake News Sites To Promote Itself
It’s a good rule of thumb that if a certain method of disseminating information has, say, recently provoked someone to fire an assault-style rifle in a crowded restaurant, it’s ill-advised to turn to that method to market your new film. That’s a memo that reached the folks at 20th Century Fox too late: As Buzzfeed…
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