Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jewish culture. Here, you’ll learn about the latest (and sometimes earliest) in Jewish art, music, film, theater, books as well as the secret Jewish history of everything and everyone from The Rolling Stones to…
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Film & TV Can ‘September 5,’ a film about Israeli hostages in a time of Israeli hostages, survive the news cycle?
Tim Fehlbaum’s film about the Munich massacre is hard to separate from today’s headlines
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Art He photographed athletes and he photographed nudes — André Steiner contained multitudes
Just in time for the Olympics, Paris is celebrating the work of Jewish photographer André Steiner
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Duck Everlasting — The secret Jewish history of Donald Duck
Was Disney's sputtering creature a symbol of liberty or of mankind's fowl propensity to embrace duck-tatorship?
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This Mexican diplomat helped Jews flee Hitler. Does that make him Mexico’s Schindler?
Some say Gilberto Bosques was just doing his job. Others call him a hero
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Film & TV In the story of a Jewish teenager coming out and coming of age, a brilliantly understated film
Jeremy Borison's 'Unspoken' is a triumph for a debut film director
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Film & TV Antisemitism isn’t the only reason Hollywood Jews are upset about that Academy Museum exhibit
The exhibit celebrates Hollywood's Jewish founders while also not shying away from some hard truths
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With never-before-seen security cam footage, movie brings viewers inside tense hostage crisis at Texas synagogue
‘Colleyville’ is Israeli-American director Dani Menkin’s latest documentary to explore a slice of modern Jewish history
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Theater His family survived the Holocaust. He survived long COVID. It’s Josh Fox’s ‘survivor’s obligation’ to fight the oil industry
In ‘The Edge of Nature,’ the Oscar nominee uses folk song to warn us about climate change
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We’re in a psychological war with ‘the greatest propaganda machine in history’ — will we survive it?
In 'Stories Are Weapons,' Annalee Newitz identifies our mortal enemy, who looks awfully familiar
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Google is answering search queries with AI now. What does that mean for Holocaust history?
Artificial intelligence can often distort facts or be used by bad actors.
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BINTEL BRIEF I don’t like my friend’s boyfriend. Do I have to invite him to my wedding?
Bintel says: You’re the bride, but remember that all actions have consequences
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Film & TV What the world has lost with the loss of Anouk Aimée
With the death of the actress, who was born Nicole Dreyfus, comes the death of an idyllic image of France
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Chabad rabbi killed in United Arab Emirates; Israel denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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