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
-
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
-
Theater In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard shows that there’s a difference between a Jew of culture and a cultural Jew
The playwright’s first reckoning with his Jewish past is too busy with history to engage in emotion
-
Books ‘He sounds like a child’: What Trump really thought of Kushner, and more highlights from Maggie Haberman’s new book
Former President Donald Trump often diminished and mocked Jared Kushner despite giving him an outsized role in the White House, the tell-all book claims
The Latest
-
Is William Shatner’s ‘Life of Awe’ the memoir we need now?
Just in time for Yom Kippur, ‘Boldly Go’ offers the 'Star Trek' actor's lessons on personal growth and the world around us
-
This non-Jewish nanny knows more about keeping kosher than you
On TikTok, Adriana Fernandez shares her adventures and discoveries nannying for Orthodox families
-
Why Mort Sahl should be the next host of ‘The Daily Show’
We can revive him. We have the technology.
-
Books ‘I’m here with my two Jewish lawyers’: How Trump was pushed to disavow David Duke
In new book, veteran reporter Maggie Haberman highlights Donald Trump’s 'uncertainty' about disassociating himself from the nation's most famous white supremacist
-
30 years ago, Brendan Fraser and Matt Damon starred in ‘School Ties’ — one of Hollywood’s few movies about antisemitism at school
The flick about a Jewish quarterback at an elite prep school tanked in theaters but became a cultural touchstone
-
How the Manischewitz gets made — a behind-the-scenes taste of America’s most iconic kosher wine
For the syrupy Concord grape wine to be kosher, it all has to be made over the course of one, single week, known as 'Kosher Crush'
-
On Yom Kippur, remembering Mosul’s rich and diverse past
Dozens of religious relics and buildings conjure up memories of a long-ago interfaith community
-
Film & TV ‘The most riveting and raw documentary I have ever seen’
In 'Last Flight Home,' Ondi Timoner chronicles her ailing father's decision to end his own life
-
Music RIP Coolio, who breathed new life into a familiar psalm
The 'Gangsta's Paradise' rapper repurposed Psalm 23 to reflect his own reality
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
News ‘He was a mensch’: Slain Messianic Jew remembered as bridge-builder
- 2
Fast Forward Ye debuts ‘Heil Hitler’ music video that includes a sample of a Hitler speech
- 3
Opinion After the DC shooting it’s clear: The pro-Palestine movement must be purged of violent extremism
- 4
Opinion This Jewish mathematician understood why Trump is a terrible poker player
In Case You Missed It
-
Yiddish װי האָבן ייִדישע ליטעראַטן באַטראַכט איבערזעצונגען פֿון וועלט־ליטעראַטור אויף ייִדיש?How did Yiddish literary figures perceive the translating of world literature into Yiddish?
די נײַע אױסגאַבע באַטאָנט דעם בײַטראָג פֿון סאָװעטישע ייִדישע שרײַבער אין דער אַנטװיקלונג פֿון דער מאָדערנער ייִדישער קולטור.
-
News Will Jewish voters decide the NYC mayoral election?
-
Fast Forward Israel announces biggest West Bank settlement expansion in decades
-
Fast Forward Northern Ireland’s lone, beleaguered synagogue aims to stave off decline by engaging Christian neighbors
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
