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WATCH NOW: April 22: Yiddish on Duolingo: How the long-awaited course came to be
Watch the recording here. Earlier this month, Duolingo added Yiddish to its list of languages, and thousands have already signed up. Meet the team of Yiddish mavens who worked for five years bringing the mameloshn to the popular language learning app. Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter will speak to Myra Awodey, Duolingo’s Lead Community Specialist; Meena…
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April 11: A Conversation with Mohammed Darawshe
This talk will take place on Sunday, April 11 at 11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT Click here to register. The Forward is excited to partner with Temple Ner Tamid of Bloomfield, NJ. Mohammad Darawshe is a citizen of Israel whose family has lived in the town of Iksal, just outside of Nazareth, for…
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Bernie, please be my matchmaker
On Friday morning, Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced an amendment to raise the federal minimum wage to $15/hour. In the midst of his impassioned speech, he slid in this line: “You got young people who want to go to school, want to socialize, want to date, want to do things that young people do. And they…
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Music Is Drake off to get some Jesus in his life?
In his newly-released EP, Drake is once more considering God’s plan for him. Judging by one song’s contemplation of Jesus, he may be entering a 1980s Dylan phase. On the track “Wants and Needs,” the artist formerly known as Aubrey Graham reflects on his success, which his mother, Sandi (née Sher) suggests is “Godsent.” That…
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Is interrupting inherently Jewish (and inherently rude)?
Are Jews just inherently rude? The stereotype — whether employed in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” or applied to Bernie Sanders — is that Jews speak over each other, shout and interrupt. Sanders even got in trouble for it, people complaining that he shouted too much during his campaign, while Jews on Twitter leaped to his…
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What British antisemitism on the left can teach us
David Baddiel's "Jews Don't Count" is targeted at the British left, but is quite instructive for Americans
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On this podcast, the pulpit looks a lot like the playing field
It’s tough to say if Rabbi Erez Sherman knows more about sports or the Torah. Maybe it’s a tie. “I found that people will either do sports or Judaism and they can’t do them at the same level at the same time,” Sherman 38, said in a phone interview from his home in Los Angeles….
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Did Art Buchwald come up with ‘Coming to America?’
“Coming 2 America,” arriving on our shores Mar. 5, promises the return of fan favorite Saul, the Jewish barber shop patron (played by Eddie Murphy), who has evidently led a biblically long life. The writers on the original film, David Sheffield and Barry W. Blaustein, are also returning. But it remains to be seen if…
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Film & TV Why Heschel’s example was the exception, not the rule
Far too often, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel is used to justify an attitude he never held: complacency. Whenever there is a civil rights anniversary or friction in white Jewish and Black relations, Heschel, a leading rabbinical luminary in the mid-century, is the go-to stand-in for the entire Jewish community. His march through Selma with Martin…
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Previously on ‘Shtisel’: Catch up before Season 3 arrives on Netflix
A lot has happened since the last season of “Shtisel” aired in 2015. Season three — which is already airing in Israel, and will be available on Netflix March 25 — will pick up four years after the last season ended, but it’s hard to remember where we left off. Out here in the real…
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Is Disney’s ‘WandaVision’ a story of intergenerational Holocaust trauma?
Set against a candied nostalgic concoction of the great American sitcom, “WandaVision” on Disney+ is a story of trauma, upheaval and loss. This should come as no surprise considering the origins of the show’s protagonist, the Marvel superhero Wanda Maximoff, also known as the Scarlet Witch. Wanda, along with her twin brother Pietro, survived the…
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