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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Evading American and Israeli authorities, did Josef Mengele ever face justice?
A new novel considers the postwar history of the notorious Nazi physician
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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
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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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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 The original anti-Zionists have been all but forgotten. Molly Crabapple wants to change that.
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