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December 7: Screening of Shared Legacies and conversation with Jodi Rudoren
This screening and panel discussion will take place on Tuesday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m. ET./ 4:30 p.m. ET. Register here. Join a screening of the documentary, Shared Legacies, which explores the history and legacy of Black-Jewish cooperation during the civil rights movement and beyond. Afterward, Forward editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren will moderate a panel about…
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WATCH NOW: January 26: The Sephardic Roots of Israeli Cuisine
Watch now. We’re thrilled to be a partner with JArts Boston on their Taste of Israel festival for this event. You simply can’t understand Israeli cuisine without understanding Sephardic cooking. Sephardic Jews kept their recipes alive through the dark centuries of the Inquisition, passing down to us a rich culinary tradition combining Spanish, Arabic and…
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A new video game has you ‘Heal Hitler’ — should we be outraged?
In a handsomely-furnished psychologist’s office, below a picture window offering a view of a city skyline, a reclined figure, staring down a stately portrait of Freud, speaks about his doting mother and his abusive father. The patient, a man in his mid-30s, is a veteran and amateur artist with a criminal record; he is prone…
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In St. Louis, a Torah curtain tells the story of a woman of valor
In the basement of the Saint Louis Art museum a luminous tapestry — the centerpiece of the exhibit “Signed in Silk: Introducing a Sacred Jewish Textile” — dazzles as if lit from within. The acquisition of this 18th century Italian ark curtain, or parokhet, created by the Jewish teenage girl Simhah Viterbo in Ancona, Italy,…
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The Olympic cardboard beds were finally defeated — by the Israeli baseball team
It was one of the big early stories of the Tokyo Olympics: The cardboard beds. Sure, athletes were told the beds were an attempt to reduce waste, since the materials used to make them are sustainable and easily recyclable. But in the Olympic Village and international media alike, the rumor quickly spread that the beds…
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As Team Israel takes the field vs. U.S., a random history of the countries’ other rivalries
At 6 a.m. tomorrow, Team Israel will take on the United States in its second game of Olympics baseball. (Israel dropped its first game, 6-5, to South Korea in extra innings.) As you may have read before, Israel’s baseball team is largely made up of American-born players — who had to acquire Israeli citizenship to…
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Simone Biles prioritized her health. Kerri Strug never had the chance to.
As the rhinestones on her leotards declare, Simone Biles is the G.O.A.T. — the greatest gymnast of all time. Her record-breaking flips and twists have won her 30 gold, silver and bronze medals over her years competing at the Olympics and World Championships. So when she pulled out of the Olympic women’s team gymnastics final…
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70 years after U.N. convention, a new — and old — way to visualize refugee journeys
July 28 is probably not marked on your 2021 calendar. But, as the 70th anniversary of the United Nations Refugee Convention, it is one of the most consequential days of the year for the 82.4 million people who the U.N. noted were “forcibly displaced” in 2020. In the wake of the massive upheaval of World…
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Remembering Steven Weinberg, the Nobel-prize winning physicist who argued with God
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg, who died on July 23 at age 88, was publicly proud of being an atheist. But he retained a Jewish structure to his thinking throughout his life. Weinberg received the Nobel for his innovations, building on the work of Albert Einstein, in helping to understand how the tiniest components…
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Meet the Ben & Jerry’s franchisee pushing back against boycott — and his customers, who just want to cool off
It’s a high of 90 in New York, but the southeast corner of 104th and Broadway is shady with scaffolding seating. It helps that there’s ice cream nearby. Joel Gasman’s Ben & Jerry’s store, a handsome scoop shop with a mosaic pillar at the entrance, is supplying the usual bonanza of flavors and, beginning this…
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Jackie Mason’s racist remarks are also a part of his legacy
Jackie Mason, who died on Saturday at age 93, will forever hold a storied place in American comedy for helping introduce to the mainstream a brand of humor that was fearlessly, unapologetically Jewish. But the late comedian’s brazen style of commentary also carries a dark legacy in his history of racist remarks. In 1989, Jewish…
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