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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Finding out I wasn’t genetically related to my father brought me closer to him
How a surprising discovery on 23andMe led to an even more surprising realization
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A new exhibit shows how Jewish marriage evolved – from 12th-century Egypt to modern-day America
The first show at the JTS library's new gallery has rare ketubot from different centuries and continents
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Learning about antisemitism from the people who fought it
A London exhibit at the Wiener Holocaust Library examines the historical context of the world's oldest hatred
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The ‘wild’ Jewish director who Hollywood left behind
Even though he made only two films, Holocaust survivor Jack Garfein was a legendary figure
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Why we need ‘Gravity Falls’ more than ever
The animated series concluded eight years ago, but for some, it will live on forever — like the Kabbalah
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Admired by Bellow, indebted to Faulkner, a giant of Jewish literature dies at 85
A.B. Yehoshua was as gifted as he was uncompromising and undiplomatic
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With his ‘Jewish or antisemitic’ viral videos, Eitan Levine is stepping into a comedy lineage
Though Levine hadn’t heard of Lenny Bruce's Jewish and goyish bit, his act relies on the same intuitive understanding of Jewish vibes
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Kate Bush’s 9 most Jewish songs
The artist’s late-career resurgence courtesy of ‘Stranger Things’ prompts us to investigate her Jewish song catalog
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Music Brooklyn musician Laura Elkeslassy creates a modern album inspired by forgotten Moroccan Jewish history
The French Jewish singer, now based in Park Slope, will sing from her new album, “Ya Ghorbati: Divas in Exile,” on Wednesday, June 15.
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Film & TV The SpongeBob SquarePants theme song is now in Yiddish
A YIVO scholar translates a popular sea shanty about ‘yam-narishkaytn.’
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A fierce, uncompromisingly radical Jewish feminist finally gets her due
A compelling new documentary revels in the fascinating contradictions of Andrea Dworkin
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