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Max Rose and Nicole Malliotakis’ campaign ads tell an ugly love story
I have never lived in New York’s 11th Congressional District, and yet I know that its incumbent congressman, Rep. Max Rose, is a hypocrite who has “betrayed the Blue.” I know this because his challenger, Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis — a “first-class fraud” who has profited off of the opioid crisis — told me so. I…
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Heschel, Lipstadt, Wisse and Schneerson are here — but is that enough?
The New Jewish Canon: Ideas & Debates 1980-2015 Edited by Yehuda Kurtzer and Claire E. Sufrin Academic Studies Press, 492 pp, $39.95 What might now be called “the old Jewish canon” would consist of the Tanakh, Mishnah, and Gemara, as well as a few other widely studied texts such as “The Guide for the Perplexed”…
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November 11-19: the Forward partners with DOC NYC
The Forward is excited to partner with DOC NYC, the largest documentary film festival in the US. This year’s festival will take place completely online, so audiences across the country can tune in and watch films anytime between Nov 11-19. We are delighted to provide you with a discount code for $3 off tickets to…
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November 11: A Bintel Brief – A JArts TheatreWorks Stage Reading
This event will take place on Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00 p.m. ET/ 4:00 p.m. PT. Click here to register. The JArts TheatreWorks group proudly presents a staged reading of “A Bintel Brief.” The Bintel Brief was a Yiddish advice column that started in the early 20th century by Abraham Cahan, the editor of Der…
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WATCH NOW January 14: From civil rights to anti-racism
Watch a recording of the talk here. Watch as we took a look back and forward at the relationships among Blacks and Jews and the complexities across our interwoven communities. Join Professor Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Professor Marc Dollinger, author of “Black Power, Jewish Politics;” Ginna…
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Bellow and Nabokov are gone; their delightfully smug offspring lives on
It’s a brave writer who declares war on cliché. Eventually you’ll lose, probably by friendly fire, and even if you manage to ignore the bullets in your ass, someone else will be glad to poke at them. Most writers, knowing this full-well, try to avoid clichés without fighting them outright. Orwell may have scolded his…
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From 1897 to 2020: Vote with fury, and with hope
This is the sixth installment of a special series exploring the Forward’s election coverage throughout its 123-year history. Click here to sign up to receive it through our email newsletter, and find our earlier installments here. On Oct. 13, 1897, six months after the Forward was founded, the fledgling paper issued its first major opinion…
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November 12: What happens now? The U.S. election results and their implications
This talk will take place on Thursday, November 12 at 7:30 p.m. ET/ 4:30 p.m. PT. Register here. No matter who wins this historic election, the new administration will face huge challenges. Can the country be unified or does more division or even chaos lie ahead? What do the election results portend for U.S. Middle…
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Imagine, if you will, a sort of Yiddish ‘Brigadoon’
Imagine a village in Poland so isolated that it has escaped the horrors of 20th-century Jewish history. This is the challenging suspension-of-disbelief that Max Gross, a former Forward staff writer, requires of readers of “The Lost Shtetl.” Their reward is a wryly engaging picaresque novel that toggles between social satire and bittersweet romance. The town…
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The Jewish James Bond stories Sean Connery likely never knew
Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who died on October 31 at age 90, may have been unaware that his celebrated film role as James Bond could possibly have included lines about how he preferred Manischewitz kosher wine, instead of martinis, shaken and not stirred. Rabbi Raphael Zarum of the London School of Jewish Studies has…
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November 23: Faith and Gratitude in the time of COVID-19 – An Interfaith Discussion
This talk will take place on Monday, November 23 at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT. Register here. How have different religious organizations weathered the pandemic? And what does the future hold for communities of faith? In honor of Thanksgiving, a universal day of gratitude, we hope you will join a group of young…
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