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That time Yiddishists met extraterrestrials a short while ago in a galaxy not far away
It was a normal summer internship at the Yiddish Book Center ... until the Jedi invaded our turf
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She drew Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande’s new single — and ‘A Bintel Brief’
Cartoonist Liana Finck is a prolific author, contributor to the Forward and The New Yorker and, now, a collaborator with two of the most famous musical artists on the planet. Late last night, in the Bob Dylan surprise content hour, Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande dropped their latest single, “Stuck With U,” a duet that…
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Mindy Kaling’s hit teen comedy has a serious Jewish problem
“Never Have I Ever,” Netflix’s newest teen comedy from Mindy Kaling — the comedian best known for her writing and acting on “The Office” and “The Mindy Project” — has been broadly celebrated for its diversity, and widely hailed as the perfect quarantine watch to binge. That praise is in many ways deserved: The show…
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For Saul Bass on his 100th birthday
To say that Saul Bass designed the 1950s and ‘60s might be an understatement. In truth, you could say that he designed about three or four decades more. The Bronx-born artist, known for his cubist silhouettes and part-for-the-whole approach, would have turned 100 on May 8. The highlights of his career in film lasted almost…
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Who’s narrating Bob Dylan’s prophetic new song? Satan, God or Dylan himself?
In March 1963, Bob Dylan made a demo recording of “Long Time Gone,” one of numerous original songs he wrote for his publishing company, Witmark. In that early song, never officially released, Dylan sings, “I know I ain’t no prophet / And I ain’t no prophet’s son.” Dylan was lyrically riffing on Amos 7:14, where…
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Three things Alice Walker gets dead wrong about anti-Semitism
Editor’s note: We’ve republished this piece, originally published on December 20, 2018, after Walker’s appearance this week on writer Cheryl Strayed’s podcast for The New York Times, “Sugar Calling,” created new outrage. Earlier this week, the internet issued a collective groan when Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker recommended a book by the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist…
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Meet the Tel Aviv teen bringing gender equality to playing cards
Here’s a magic trick: Imagine a standard deck of cards. Now visualize the highest value face card. I don’t need to be David Copperfield to know you’ve pictured a king. But why should that be? After all, queens have been some of the most successful, beloved and longest-serving monarchs. Why are they worth less than…
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Weirdly awful and compulsively watchable — few hurrays for ‘Hollywood’
“Equality and progress – that’s what we should stand for!” said no 1940s studio mogul ever. But that’s exactly what Avis Amberg (Patti Lupone) proclaims as she hoists a martini as big as the Hollywood sign in “Hollywood,” the seven-part Netflix series set in 1947 Tinseltown. (It comes from Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, co-creators…
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May 25: Comfort Cooking for Quarantine with Eve Jochnowitz
Join Scholar of Ashkenazi cooking and co-host of the Forverts cooking show “Eat in Good Health”, Eve Jochnowitz for a live Shavuot cooking demonstration (in Yiddish!) on Facebook. She’ll be preparing a special dish for the holiday — yogurt biscuits and fasolada (a bean soup). Don’t miss the demo on May 25 at 5 p.m….
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WATCH NOW: May 27: After Corona: How our Jewish world will change
Watch the recording here. Does virtual engagement make our communities more inclusive or more polarized? Will day-school and camp survive? Will observance finally become more affordable? Join our editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren; Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick; parenting expert Bethany Mandel; Forward contributing columnist Alex Zeldin; spiritual leader of Lab/Shul NYC, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie; Executive Director of the…
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Why filmmaker Sasha Neulinger is sharing his story of abuse
In 2012, Sasha Neulinger was finishing his film degree at Montana State University. He was 23 and had a job working on a show for National Geographic. He was excited to see what the future held, but his past wasn’t done with him yet. “I was really enjoying where I was, and yet there was…
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How Kraftwerk helped reimagine a post-Holocaust Germany
The founder of pioneering German electronic group, Kraftwerk, Florian Schneider has died at 73. While there is nothing explicitly Jewish about the legendary band, or its founder, Kraftwerk was open in its attempt to create a new German identity in the wake of, and as a reaction to, Nazism and the Holocaust. Take, for example,…
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