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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First Person What to wear to become a Jewish mother-in-law?
How a vintage gown midwifed by extraordinary women helped me find my way
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Why are we afraid to call Kanye West’s posts antisemitic?
The rapper tweeted that he wanted to go "death con 3 on Jewish people," yet numerous major outlets called this "purported" antisemitism
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Mark Zuckerberg’s company marks Sukkot with a virtually empty virtual sukkah
You've never Meta sukkah like this
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How Columbus brought America its first Jew
Luis de Torres was a refugee of faith –— and, in a way, America's first pilgrim
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Sharing communal sukkot during the ‘Holiday of Shade’
In the Ethiopian celebration, families join together in a community sukkah
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Building the very best Sukkah — in Uganda
Rabbinical student from Abayudaya community shares joy of Sukkot in children's book
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Behind the swankiest new hotel on the Lower East Side, a swanky Jewish history
Visitors to Nine Orchard might not realize they're living out a Jewish immigrant's American dream
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Did the head of the ADL just praise Elon Musk — by comparing him to a famous antisemite?
In a TV appearance, Jonathan Greenblatt called Musk the 'Henry Ford of our time'
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The secret Jewish history of the Great Chicago Fire
The first person to claim responsibility for the blaze was a young gambler named Louis M. Cohn
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Hulu’s ‘The Patient’ gets at a dynamic rarely seen on TV: Orthodox-Reform tensions
The series’ protagonist is a Jewish therapist whose family is strained when his son joins an Orthodox community
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Art Meet the artist behind the new Hanukkah postage stamp
Jeanette Kuvin Oren drew from Jewish traditional paper cutting to create a silk artwork for the U.S. Postal Service
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