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I share a birthday with the Forward. As it turns out, so do a lot of people and things.
The Forward's first issue was published 125 years ago. I came decades later. And a bunch of other things happened on April 22.
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Remembering the only Jew on the first Freedom Ride – 75 years ago
Igal Roodenko, who received a 22-day prison term for his action, was the only Jewish participant on the trip, which led to the better known Freedom Rides of 1961.
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Books A.J. Jacobs on Jews, puzzles and how Sondheim changed American crosswords forever
The 'Puzzler' author shares his Wordle insights - and his puzzle collection.
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In ‘Russian Doll,’ inherited Holocaust trauma spills through generations — via time travel
The mind-bending Netflix hit isn't afraid of diving deep and getting weird in its hallucinatory newest installment.
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Lego rabbis, Hasidic coloring books: How toy makers and publishers created an alternative Jewish universe
A new book explores the toys, music and kids’ books found in strictly Orthodox homes.
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Film & TV In ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Jimmy cries antisemitism at a country club
It was an angle he never worked - cause only Saul Goodman could.
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Grocery store displays are full of matzo — but none of it is kosher for Passover. Why?
It begs the question: Why does non kosher-for-Pesach matzo even exist?
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Iris Apfel’s bold new H&M fashion launch is perfect for Passover
Iris Apfel is living proof that it’s never too late to follow your dreams. Today, at age 100, she’s launching a fashion collection with retail giant H&M. Yet until she was 84, she’d never worked professionally in fashion as a designer or model; her career was in interior decorating. Her brightly patterned, brazenly clashing outfits…
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At 90, Elaine May remains a deceptively and defiantly Jewish artist
The Jewish quotient in the creative works of director, screenwriter and actress Elaine May, whose 90th birthday will be feted April 21, remains oddly misunderstood. Yet May, as recent recipient of a Tony award, honorary Oscar, and National Medal for the Arts, is widely esteemed in the showbiz community. The Academy Award is a trifle…
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Barry Manilow gives us harmony and Hebrew in a sometimes hammy musical
If “Memory” wasn’t already a marquee name in showtunes, Barry Manilow probably would have used the title for a song in his new musical. Now playing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, “Harmony,” about the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of German singer-comedians, is also all about memory – both history’s short recall for a popular…
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Emerging from a ‘twilight world,’ Delia Ephron offers a harrowing story of loss and survival
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life By Delia Ephron Little, Brown and Company, 304 pages, $29 If you’re expecting a light, frothy read, Delia Ephron’s “Left on Tenth” isn’t your book. You’ll need to brace for (emotional) impact if you pick up this memoir of late-life love and life-threatening illness. Ephron was the…
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