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…
Culture
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How the Oct. 7 aftermath splintered the New York Dyke March
Amid debates on Zionism, the beloved Pride month ritual saw a founder ejected and an organizer doxxed
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Film & TV Is there a Messianic Jew on Disney’s ‘Mickey Mouse Funhouse’?
A Jewish character wears a necklace with a Messianic seal at a Hanukkah celebration
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Ye’s antisemitism is old news, but it’s time to pay attention again
The artist's newest song, 'Heil Hitler,' is doing numbers online, which is noteworthy
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Art How the war changed an artist’s life, his politics — and his painting
Before Oct. 7, Sam Griffin's work was personal and introspective; then he was drafted into the Israeli army
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The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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The woman who saved stolen Jewish art — and the writer who is finally telling her story
The hero of Michelle Young's 'The Art Spy' is Rose Valland — a quiet, relentless French art historian who risked everything to save Jewish-owned art from the Nazis
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Is Pope Leo Jewish? Ask his distant cousins — like me
Family trees show some relations I’m proud to have, and others I’d rather forget
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Should Diaspora Jews be buried in Israel? A rabbi responds
The biblical Abraham and Joseph offer inspiration — as does a mystical tradition
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Is this heaven or is it New Jersey? 9 innings of the Jewish American pastime
On the ballfields of Montclair, New Jersey, an impromptu game triggers memories of baseball and Bible
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How one Jewish woman fought the Nazis — and helped found a new Italian republic
80 years ago, Teresa Mattei fought with the resistance and went on to help write Italy's constitution.
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Everything you need to know about every Pope Leo — even the antisemitic Leo and the one with the elephant
What does it mean that the newest pope has chosen the name Leo XIV?
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