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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Where Eric Adams got his Rosh Hashanah fit
The New York mayor was spotted wearing some fresh Bukharian threads
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Ashkenazi Jews, there’s 1,000 years of history you’ve been missing
The missing years include Jewish slavery in Italy
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Great news! The rapture is coming on Rosh Hashanah
Online, many Christians are preparing to be bodily assumed into heaven on the Jewish New Year
The Latest
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In these stunning psalms, everything is illuminated — including the lives of King David and Thomas More
At the Morgan Library, 'Sing a Song' focuses on the role of psalms in medieval life and literacy
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Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob Dylan
The author's novel has a nearly one-to-one relationship to his real life questions about his heritage.
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This Israeli photographer’s work is all about ‘subverting masculinity’
Nir Arieli honed his thinking through photographing soldiers during the Second Lebanon war
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Looking Forward The 10 most Jewish things to happen to me in 10 years at the Forward
Unexpected connections, an unlikely romantic proposition, and a devastating bagel incident
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Film & TV They fled from Gaza to Egypt — will they ever find their way back home?
Like Jewish Zionists, the Palestinians in the documentary ‘Who Is Still Alive' yearn to be in their spiritual homeland.
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A new documentary shows what it looks like when Hasidic education fails
New documentary 'Unorthodox Education' explores what happens after children leave the yeshiva world
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Music How the descendant of a notorious Jewish pirate became a swashbuckling rock ’n’ roll legend
Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera has crossed swords with Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno and Bob Dylan
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Theater An unprecedented, and unfinished, work of Yiddish scholarship is now an opera
‘The Great Dictionary of the Yiddish Language’ chronicles a quest to save a forgotten world
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