Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jewish culture. Here, you’ll learn about the latest (and sometimes earliest) in Jewish art, music, film, theater, books as well as the secret Jewish history of everything and everyone from The Rolling Stones to…
Culture
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The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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Art In this striking portrait of an Ethiopian Jew, she found a surprising connection to her family history
Turns out the background of Kehinde Wiley's painting was inspired by a 19th centry mizrah
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Why the biblical story of David and Batsheva keeps trending on Twitter
The episode is key to the debate around sexual abuse in evangelical churches
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Film & TV What does Adam Sandler’s Mark Twain Prize say about (Jewish) American humor?
Adam Sandler may be the least Jewish comic to win the award
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Music Peter Gabriel’s not-so-secret Jewish weapon — and his little side project called King Crimson
When the rocker goes out on tour for the first time in a decade, Tony Levin will be there alongside him
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David Strathairn plays historic Holocaust witness Jan Karski in PBS’s ‘Remember This’
The film is airing as part of the Great Performances series and will be accompanied by a documentary about Karski, a non-Jewish Pole who infiltrated the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942
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A new dance club in Williamsburg is bringing Tel Aviv party culture to Brooklyn
The new Jewish-owned club, inspired by the late-night Tel Aviv scene, has already become a fixture of Brooklyn nightlife
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Film & TV How Spielberg’s Oscar losses paved the way for ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’
‘The Fabelmans’ ditched the genre trappings that the Daniels embraced
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Film & TV Why ‘pi’ is Darren Aronofsky’s best — and most Jewish — film
Now showing in IMAX, the film was inspired by the director’s trip to Israel
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Film & TV How Topol got to be Tevye
The unofficial historian of 'Fiddler on the Roof' remembers Chaim Topol's story of how he became a star
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‘Always making demented performances’: Meet the professional clown with a show about the Holocaust
Alexandra Tatarsky enters the hellscape of the Jewish mind
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Remembering Topol, the people’s Tevye
Chaim Topol, who starred in the film adaptation of Fiddler on the Roof, died Thursday at 87
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