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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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‘If not for the Forward, I’d never have been born.’
“So much happened in that time. My dad was really a great guy — I guess you could say, in the end, that he was a salesman. “ This is a love story from another time, a saga that transcends borders. Our tale begins in Poland, where Harry Korniarski was born, and winds its way…
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The case against flogging Mark Zuckerberg
The Reality Game : How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth . By Samuel Woolley . Public Affairs, 278 pages, $28 . There’s a whole book of the Talmud dedicated to crimes that should be punished by lashes — Makkot. Allthough our early internet age is in many ways beyond the imagination…
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A new Holocaust opera premieres — in Thailand
Thailand might not seem the most probable point of origin for a new opera about the Holocaust, but on January 16, the world premiere of “Helena Citrónová” by the composer Somtow Sucharitkul, 67, will be staged in Bangkok. It is about a real-life Auschwitz survivor of Slovak Jewish origin who at a trial in 1972,…
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‘Oh, my Gawd!’ Rachel Bloom and Fran Drescher are making a ‘The Nanny’ musical
It’s a tale (nearly) as old as time: A millionaire Broadway producer meets a bridal shop worker from Queens, hires her as a caretaker for his children, then eventually takes her to wife. Now, that classic story will become a stage musical. Yes, a Broadway treatment of hit 1990s sitcom“The Nanny” is forthcoming. As Deadline…
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In 1960, Clifford Odets wrote his final film — for Elvis
Wise men say only fools rush in to a vanity film project for a singer of limited acting ability. That didn’t stop Clifford Odets, at least when it came to the King of Rock and Roll. The year was 1960, and the socialist playwright was entering his third and final decade working in film. His…
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On Elvis Presley’s 85th birthday, a story of his brush with Jewishness
Editor’s Note: This story ran in 2014 as part of the Forward’s “Our Promised Lands” series. We’re re-revisiting it today in honor of what would have been Elvis Presley’s 85th birthdayt. In the summer of 1954, Elvis Presley released his first single. He had one problem: He couldn’t play it. The aspiring 19-year-old singer was…
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How Elizabeth Wurtzel, ‘Prozac Nation’ author and breast cancer advocate, shaped America
Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose bracingly candid memoirs brought attention to the deeply-rooted problems of addiction and depression in America, died in a Manhattan hospital on January 7. She was 52 years old. Wurtzel died as a result of leptomeningeal disease, a complication that occurs after cancer spreads to cerebrospinal fluid, her husband, Jim Freed, told The…
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What ‘The Good Place’ says about Jewish ethics
This article contains spoilers for all four seasons of NBC’s “The Good Place.” Like many things in Judaism, notions of the afterlife can seem to be a jumble of competing interpretations. There’s no consensus as to what the life-to-come may look like, but one suggestion of heaven is the yeshiva shel ma’ala — or the…
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As Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial begins in New York, new assault charges emerge in LA
On Monday, soon after a walker-bound Harvey Weinstein limped into New York’s State Supreme Court in Manhattan for the preliminary steps in his first criminal trial, the movie mogul was hit with new rape and sexual assault charges in California. Los Angeles prosecutors released a criminal complaint with new charges against Weinstein made by two…
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