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…
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Art
How Jews have confronted the seemingly eternal scourge of hatred
Two new exhibits in New York grapple with the ravages wrought by antisemitism
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Film & TV How a deadly disease saved Jewish lives and fooled the Nazis during WWII
‘Syndrome K,’ the subject of a new documentary, was highly contagious and highly fictional
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Film & TV Just how Jewish is Betty Boop?
Born on Aug. 9, 1930, the iconic cartoon character has both animated and real-life Yiddish ancestors
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The secret Jewish history of Olivia Newton-John
In 1933, her grandfather fled from Germany to escape Hitler
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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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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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Film & TV In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg finds himself at odds with Jewish thought about aliens
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Opinion Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
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Culture ‘My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish’ — the Knicks chant capturing New York’s soul
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Culture The manosphere says women owe their husbands sex — Judaism says the opposite
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Fast Forward Georgia’s Jewish senator called his newly minted GOP opponent an antisemite. Why?
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Fast Forward Alex Bores’ supporters disagree on Israel. They agree on him.
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Fast Forward Organizers of London Israeli real estate fair apologize after West Bank properties surface despite denials