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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I have seen the future of America — in a pastrami sandwich in Queens
San Wei, which serves pastrami sandwiches along with churros and biang biang noodles, represents an immigrant's fulfillment of the American dream
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Former White House speechwriter now singing a different tune in Boston
Joe Resnek's first album, '1,' reflects his roots in Chelsea, Massachusetts, a town formerly nicknamed 'Little Jerusalem'
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Meet the Jews of color exploring what it means to be Black, Asian, Latino — and Jewish
New ADL fellowships fund films, programs and research on diversity, racism and intersectionality in Jewish communities
The Latest
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Film & TV How Judaism, Scientology, Christianity, mythology and God knows what else haunt the dreams of Netflix’s ‘Sandman’
Neil Gaiman's comics are so beloved — and so scattered and complicated — no one has dared to adapt them until now
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Wait, did Alex Jones’ lawyer really invoke the Holocaust to defend his client?
For some reason Jones’ defense paraphrased Martin Niemöller’s poem ‘First they came for...’
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Art At the age of 95, an American Jewish artist finally gets his due
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Queens, painter Alex Katz is bound for the Guggenheim in Manhattan
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Bintel Brief Am I right to resent my careless relative for giving me COVID-19?
For the first time ever, our hosts do not advise talking to said relative. Instead, talk to yourself.
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Seeing ‘Hashem’ or ‘Yiddish’ trending on Twitter? It’s because the platform knows you’re Jewish.
The trending bar on the social media platform has been serving up a lot of haimish terms. But no one is actually talking about them.
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Music Yes, they’re both Jewish, but Barry Manilow and Lou Reed had something else in common
Two guys from Brooklyn helped to launch Clive Davis and Arista Records into the stratosphere
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First Person My donor wanted to give me her kidney — and get home in time for Shabbat
‘Have you ever felt that you knew someone all your life even though the two of you had never met?’
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Film & TV Why Jewishness — and Kabbalah — are key to understanding HBO’s ‘The Rehearsal’
On Nathan Fielder’s new show, the controversial comedian creates a series of small worlds
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Theater Julie Benko is getting her big break in ‘Funny Girl’ — and she’s not afraid of comparisons
Hubbub surrounded Beanie Feldstein’s departure and Lea Michele’s arrival. But Benko is the real winner, starring for all of August.
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Culture Trump wants to honor Hannah Arendt in a ‘Garden of American Heroes.’ Is this a joke?
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Fast Forward The invitation said, ‘No Jews.’ The response from campus officials, at least, was real.
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Opinion A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on US soil. I think I know why no one objected.
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Fast Forward Columbia staff receive texts asking if they’re Jewish, as government hunts antisemitic harassment on campus
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News At Harvard, reports on antisemitism and anti-Palestinian bias reflect campus conflict over Israel
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Opinion Is JB Pritzker’s very Jewish toughness the key to fighting Trump?
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Fast Forward Trump nominee Ed Martin, who praised a Nazi sympathizer, also compared Biden to Hitler
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Opinion RFK Jr. and Trump are talking about an ‘autism registry’ — this sounds disturbingly familiar
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