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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On the northwest side of Chicago, my old Jewish neighborhood may soon live on in infamy
Albany Park was home to Rosenblum's Bookstore, Weinberg's Clothing — and also alleged DC shooter Elias Rodriguez
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How do you greet people for the High Holidays? Test your knowledge
Brush up with this quiz to make sure you don't embarrass yourself this Rosh Hashanah
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Take our quiz to test your High Holiday knowledge
Do you confuse Sukkot and Shavuot? Have you never heard of Yom Kippur? Then you might fail this.
The Latest
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Bintel Brief I found a photo of my employee in blackface — 40 years ago. What should I do?
Bintel advises a CEO wondering whether four decades is long enough to forgive a grievous error
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What’s a Christian unicorn like that doing in a Jewish marriage contract like this?
A new exhibit about the Jews of Corfu offers some surprising insights into Jewish art and practices
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‘Mazel tov on assimilating:’ The strange, rich history of Rosh Hashanah advertisements
In the postwar years, as the American Jewish community underwent dramatic changes, Rosh Hashanah greetings became a surprising marketing trend
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High Holiday event honors the early 20th century Black female cantor
Shahanna McKinney-Baldon channels Madame Goldye Steiner
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The secret Jewish history of Bruce Springsteen
A streak of religious rebelliousness, struggle and redemption runs through his songs, making them sound a little, well, Jewish
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Art How come you’ve never heard of these Jewish artists?
This exhibition says it’s partly because they’re women
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Theater Why the inspiring story of a real-life Holocaust hero can’t help us solve modern political problems
The one-man show 'Remember This,' staged by Theater for a New Audience, chronicles the life of Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski
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Art Tour the studio of artist Tobi Kahn
Watch a video of Kahn's work and process and register for an online and in-person discussion
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Are Jews who play baseball on the High Holidays really cursed?
We ran the stats to find out whether the 'Koufax Curse' is really a thing
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