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…
Culture
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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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‘What’s Kosher?’ An Indian-Jewish poet’s take on memory, belonging, and her people’s delicious history.
Zilka Joseph's new of book of poetry, 'Sweet Malida: Memories of a Bene Israel Woman,' dips into the culture and mythology around the subcontinent's largest Jewish community
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Music The hugely influential record label that unites Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan and Bernie Sanders lives on
Founded by Moses Asch, Folkways continues to be a repository for underappreciated voices
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Film & TV Nudniks, nude performers and a Nobel winner have one thing in common — they all love the Marx Brothers
The second ever Marxfest drew visitors from across the country to celebrate the beloved family act
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On the road again — except a lot more Jewish than Jack Kerouac, or T.S. Eliot for that matter
Reuven Fenton's debut novel 'Goyhood' interrogates Jewish identity with a jaunty sense of adventure
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Film & TV Did Labour suspend a candidate for liking a Jon Stewart joke?
The 10-year-old joke about Israel continues to be relevant
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BINTEL BRIEF A rambunctious child is driving Mom nuts. What can she say besides ‘Stop’ and ‘Don’t’?
Bintel offers 9 ways to cope with a 'vilde chaya' — wild child — right out of a Maurice Sendak story
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Viral meme urges ‘all eyes on Rafah’ — yet it fails to show Rafah at all
The irony of bringing attention to the death toll in Gaza with a sanitized, AI-generated image
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Film & TV Critically acclaimed Israeli film offers great performances, family tension, and nostalgia for an unsavory past
Ayelet Menahemi’s 'Seven Blessings' won 10 Israeli Oscars, including best picture
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What will they say about you when you die?
If your eulogy was written today, what would you want it to say?
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Film & TV How I helped bring the story of Hollywood’s Jewish founders to the Academy Museum — where it belongs
The museum's new 'Hollywoodland' exhibit offers a needed corrective for (some of) its previous oversights
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Theater A hauntingly bizarre musical upends Stephen Sondheim’s signature maxim — here, everyone is alone
In Dave Malloy's COVID-era 'Three Houses,' a brilliant structure saves three little pigs but leaves audience out in the woods
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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 Three arrested in murder of rabbi in United Arab Emirates; Israel denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’
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News Trump promised peace in the Middle East. Will his 2020 plan be the blueprint?
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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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