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Nicole Krauss’s debut short story collection is an argument against staying calm
“To Be a Man” By Nicole Krauss Harper, 240 pages, $21.59 Noa, the teenage protagonist and narrator of Nicole Krauss’s short story “End Days,” wakes up with two disasters on her mind: the wildfires that have just “jumped the borders” into Los Angeles, where she lives, and her parents’ impending divorce. Compared to one couple’s…
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December 4: Jodi Rudoren to join ‘Women to Watch Impact Summit’
This talk will take place on Friday, December 4 at 12 p.m. ET / 9 a.m PT. Register here. Whether you’ve joined JWI at Women to Watch and couldn’t wait to come again, or you’ve never been and have wanted to go… this is your best opportunity to fully experience JWI. They have innovated a…
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9 spooky, Jew-y films to watch for Halloween (8 of which aren’t ‘Hubie Halloween’)
Craving spooky, scary, Jewish viewing for Halloween? We've got you covered
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Joe Klein has harsh words for Miles Taylor, a very different ‘Anonymous’
Before Miles Taylor, there was Joe Klein. Klein was a reporter at Newsweek when he anonymously published “Primary Colors,” a bestselling roman à clef informed by his coverage of the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign. In the summer of 1996 — after months of denial — Klein admitted he was, in fact, Anonymous. So, what…
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Michael Cohen is on Cameo — here’s what you should make him say
After years of following the every whim of Donald Trump, the man who served as consigliere and pit bull attorney to the president, then called him a racist before Congress, is prepared to say whatever you want him to — for the price of $100. Yes, Michael Cohen has a Cameo. For the uninitiated, Cameo…
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December 5: Interview with Maya Zinshtein, director of ‘Til Kingdom Come
This talk will take place on Saturday, December 5 at 6 p.m. ET / 3 p.m. PT. Purchase film tickets here. Following your ticket purchase, you will be sent a link to register for the Q&A. The Forward is excited to once again partner with the Marlene Meyersen JCC Other Israel Film Festival, a leading…
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The true grit of the Jews who fought by John Brown’s side
August Bondi, Theodore Wiener and Jacob Benjamin helped the abolitionist cause
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December 7: Interview with David Osit, director of The Mayor
This talk will take place on Monday, December 7 at 7 p.m. ET / 4 p.m. PT. Purchase film tickets here. Following your ticket purchase, you will be sent a link to register for the Q&A. The Forward is excited to once again partner with the Marlene Meyersen JCC Other Israel Film Festival, a leading…
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How ‘Borat’ got its sound — an interview with Erran Baron Cohen
Growing up, Erran Baron Cohen and his younger brother, Sacha, would entertain their parents’ guests during Shabbos at their home in London. “Me and Sacha were often quite bored actually,” Baron Cohen said. “We used to make up funny songs on the piano for our own amusement. One was called ‘Schvitzin”, which was about Jews…
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How ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ gets history wrong
in 1987, I wrote and directed the film, “Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8,” which received an ACE award that year for best cable movie. I had initially been hired by CBS to make a TV movie based on the transcripts of this famous political trial, as earlier I had written and directed “Katherine,”…
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On his new album, Bruce Springsteen plays the rock ‘n’ roll rebbe
There is a point in “Letter to You,” the new film documenting the making of the new album by the same name, when Bruce Springsteen dons his prophetic cloak and declares: I dwell in a house of a thousand dreams…. We’re not been made perfect by God, but here I try to speak in the…
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