This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish culture where you’ll learn about the latest (and sometimes earliest) in Jewish art, music (including of course Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen), film, theater, books as well as the secret Jewish history of…
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Books
Cathleen Schine will convince you to move to Los Angeles
The author talks about her newest book, her writing routine and the importance of a standing cocktail hour
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Film & TV That industrial musical in ‘Mrs. Maisel’ wasn’t a fever dream — it was history
Products like cars and mouthwash inspired song-and-dance numbers that were a staple of American business
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BINTEL BRIEF ‘Sending you love’: Readers uplift convert whose ex said she was no longer Jewish
Flood of support for divorced woman who sought Bintel’s advice
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Books This devastating memoir will break your heart
In 'The Best Minds,' Jonathan Rosen deconstructs a generation through the tragic story of his childhood friend Michael Laudor
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Film & TV The heroic WWII rescue story that Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic’ leaves out
The Jewish Labor Committee rescued more than a thousand Jews — so why hasn't anyone heard of them?
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Film & TV Israeli creator of ‘The Last of Us’ finds inspiration for sequel in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Neil Druckmann, creator of the hit game and its successful HBO adaption, grew up in an Israeli settlement before moving to the U.S.
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His family died in the Warsaw ghetto — in these paintings, he honored their fight
'These faces don't let me rest,' Maurice Mendjizky told a friend
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Film & TV ‘Beau Is Afraid’ isn’t Jewish ‘Lord of the Rings’ — it’s way worse
Ari Aster’s horror comedy is only Jewish on the most offensive level
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Music Could Bob Dylan be auditioning a new album concept in Japan?
Theories abound as to why the 81-year-old artist has started covering Grateful Dead tunes
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Theater In Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Camelot,’ a kingdom of quick banter and Talmudic argument
Lincoln Center’s revamped revival of the 1960 musical is a timeless tale of how we strive for goodness — and why we often fail
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Theater ‘An American Tail the Musical’ is coming — and it’s more Jewish than ever
A debut production with a book by Tony winner Itamar Moses has the Mousekowitzes saying the Shema
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Exclusive Mahmoud Khalil wants to reassure you
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Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
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Opinion Trump is backed into a corner on Iran. Get ready for him to start blaming Jews
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Culture Ben Lerner’s tale of three hotels is a lyrical novel of loss and human potential
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