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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Forwarding the News Behind the scenes: Can a play about antisemitism make up for a London theater’s antisemitism?
Today: On the streets with the “are you Jewish?” Chabad guys, parsing the media response to Kanye West’s antisemitism and a major agreement between Israel and Lebanon.
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Forwarding the News Republicans keep comparing abortion to the Holocaust + Shooting outside Rep. Lee Zeldin’s home
Today: Kanye West pivots to antisemitism, a portrait of Hitler in a 7th grade classroom and a moment of long-awaited joy for a small New Mexico Jewish community.
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Culture In London, an antisemitism scandal has sparked a play about antisemitism. Is it helping?
The Royal Court Theatre’s response to a very public drama? Even more drama.
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News Dispatch from London: In Jewish neighborhoods, shuls and kosher cafes shuttered as Britain buries her queen
A week before the High Holidays, the royal funeral prompts a meditation on ritual and change
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Forwarding the News A very Jewish kidney-donation story + fallout for school with accidental swastika logo
Today: The end of the Alex Jones trial, a German university keeps honoring its antisemitic namesake, and a slew of right-wing attacks on George Soros.
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Forwarding the News The Jewish justice who helped preserve abortion rights in Kansas + What AIPAC had to do with Andy Levin’s defeat
Today: One more stab at talks over an Iran deal, alarming polio vaccination statistics and another — yes, really, another — chapter in the Ben & Jerry’s West Bank saga.
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Forwarding the News In her own words: The girl whose bat mitzvah was disrupted at the Western Wall speaks out
Today: Antisemitism spikes on a far-right social media platform, everything to know about Taiwan’s Jews and, sigh, rapper apologizes for wearing swastika shirt to music festival
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Forwarding the News What Anne Frank has to do with a Forward editor’s new novel + GOP candidate said abortion is worse than the Holocaust
Today: U.S. strike kills top Al Qaeda leader, Jewish pitcher makes the big leagues and the mysteries of pickle pizza.
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