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Deborah Lipstadt, Etgar Keret and Ilya Kaminsky take home National Jewish Book Awards
Updated, January 17, 4:32 pm: This story has been updated to include a list to the complete list of winners of the 2019 awards. Short tales of whimsy, a new translation of the Bible, unsung American matriarchs and two rousing calls to combat the so-called “oldest hatred:” These are the winners of the 69th Annual…
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The Kafkaesque story of how Kafka’s “Trial” got cancelled
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include the Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s response to NYU Skirball’s statement that “The Trial” was cancelled due to its decision to withdraw funds. A stage adaptation of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial,” which was set to debut in New York at the NYU Skirball Center March 7, has been…
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“My Polish Honeymoon” proves you really can make a rom-com out of anything — even Holocaust tourism
Kazimierz, Krakow’s Jewish quarter, was once home to thousands of Jews. Today it boasts seven intact synagogues, a rarity in Eastern Europe, and a vibrant bohemian cafe scene. In its souvenir shops, you can buy tasteful notebooks stamped with the Yiddish alphabet, Instagrammable postcards of fin-de-siècle bourgeois Jewish life, and statuettes of hook-nosed Jews holding…
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Why Ladino will rise again
A sold-out crowd packed the house at the Center for Jewish History — and even filled an overflow room viewing the proceedings on screen — at the third annual Ladino Day in New York, home to the largest Sephardic community in America. Tight security and what speakers described as a “daunting time” for “Jews and…
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She was the first Jewish actor to win an Oscar
Each year, the Oscars are a who’s who of Jews. We are routinely represented in winners, losers, hosts and weird kissers (cough, cough Adrien Brody.) Too often, the awards go to boychiks. This year, with no women nominees for director (either Jewish or gentile), we wondered who was was the first Jewish woman to take…
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OscarsSoBoring: What the nominees tell us about 2020
The first weeks of 2020 already feel like a retread of lowlights from years past. A calamitous environmental crisis, an impeachment trial and a teaser of a new, ill-advised war in the Middle East. And then there are the Oscar nominees. This year, like just about every year, shows an Academy unwilling to embrace new…
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The secret Jewish history of Dr. Dolittle
Robert Downey Jr. presumably had a better time making the new movie “Dolittle,” based on Hugh Lofting’s “Doctor Dolittle” stories and opening in theaters on Friday, January 17, than did his fellow Jew, Anthony Newley, who had a miserable experience on the set of the original 1967 “Doctor Dolittle” film version, which starred Rex Harrison….
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From Treblinka, a story of anguish and healing
Driving to Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father By Diana Wichtel Heritage, 278 pages, $22.95 Diana Wichtel’s father was an improbable Holocaust survivor. He managed to squeeze through the window of a rail car on its way from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp, leaving his mother and other relatives to…
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January 27: LA: Breakfast With Jodi Rudoren
Join Jodi Rudoren, editor-in-chief of The Forward, and Rachel Fishman Feddersen, CEO and publisher, for breakfast and a conversation about the future of Jewish journalism, the Los Angeles Jewish community, and how the two can best connect. Jodi, a former LA Times journalist, and Rachel will host the gathering at Temple Emanuel Beverly Hills on…
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January 27: LA: Discussing Media Coverage of Israel
While visiting Los Angeles, Forward editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren will host a conversation at Valley Beth Shalom about media coverage of Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli politics, American Jewry and contemporary anti-Semitism. Come with questions — there will also be an audience Q&A. The event is on January 27 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. RSVP details…
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How a Jewish New Yorker documented Muslim life under Trump
A week into his presidency, Donald Trump made good on a campaign promise to block Muslims from entering the United States. With Executive Order 13769, the Trump administration suspended entry from seven Muslim-majority countries. But the travel ban didn’t just affect residents of those countries — it had sweeping implications for America’s 3.45 million Muslims,…
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