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…
Culture
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The publisher of an iconic newspaper is living Black (and Jewish) history
Elinor Tatum carries on the storied legacy of the New York Amsterdam News
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FIRST PERSON I sat next to Richard Belzer in Hebrew school — and it was a hoot
He made off-color jokes, cast himself as the serpent in Eden and kept me giggling all the way to my bat mitzvah
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Theater After neo-Nazis rallied at a Broadway show, Jews in theater gathered to respond
In a Times Square rehearsal studio, Jewish theater makers shared fears and hopes for the future
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The real story behind Sammy Davis Jr.’s conversion to Judaism
Jewish comedians made racist jokes about him. Some Black audiences booed him. But his faith was genuine
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Film & TV The greatest film about France in World War II is also a blistering critique of filmmaking
Marcel Ophüls’ ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ lays bear the horrors (and delights) of its own medium
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BINTEL BRIEF We plan to raise our son Jewish, but I’m opposed to circumcision for medical and moral reasons
A Reform Jew wonders how to honor tradition as well as their own sense of what is right
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Books DeSantis boasts of groundwork on the Jerusalem embassy move in new book
Florida Gov Ron DeSantis assails ‘America’s bureaucratic elites’ for predicting it would lead to massive conflict
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Sports Why does soccer music sound so Jewish?
When the music at the stadium isn't the National Anthem, chances are a Jewish songwriter had something to do with it
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YIVO to digitize millions of documents from Jewish Labor Bund
The effort will make countless artifacts available for the first time
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Walter Mosley talks about his latest book — and his Jewish mother
His book is about a Black ex-cop investigating a white nationalist. His mom is an abiding influence on his worldview
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How the Netherlands became a nation of diarists in WWII
Anne Frank was far from the only chronicler of a country's descent into catastrophe
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