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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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‘May I help you, Mr. Perlman?’ — a lesson from the maestro at the Zabar’s lox counter
So, I was slicing away. I looked up and sitting before me was Itzhak Perlman. Mr. Perlman is a regular at Zabar’s — you know, like Woody Allen’s mother. He’s been shopping here for years. He is held in such high esteem that the store manager assigns one of the sub-managers to walk around the…
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‘Hollywood’ imagines inclusion, but snubs films about Jews
Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” presents a gauzy Tinsel Town where anything was possible. In it, the movie-making mecca of the postwar period supplied a panacea for all America’s ills, counting major blows against racism, homophobia and gender inequality in one, monumental evening at the Academy Awards. Hays Code be damned! Forget the trending hashtag of #OscarsSoWhite…
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Music Barbra Streisand urges relief for essential workers — through song
“You’ll Never Walk Alone” is having a moment, but Barbra Streisand is eternal. In a new video posted to her YouTube channel, the singer, known for her exceedingly rare live vocal performances, used the song to laud those working through the coronavirus pandemic. While the video, with its images of healthcare workers, grocery store cashiers…
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WATCH NOW: Talking Shavuot with Ben Katchor, author of The Dairy Restaurant
Watch the recording here. You can’t eat at dairy restaurants for Shavuot, but you can hear all about them. Join MacArthur Fellow and author Ben Katchor as he discusses the holiday and his critically-acclaimed new book, The Dairy Restaurant, with Rob Eshman, national editor of The Forward. This is part of our new series, “#ForwardFocus:…
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What all the critics of “Unorthodox” are forgetting
“Unorthodox” is, if anything, entirely orthodox. That is to say, the much-viewed and reviewed Netflix offering about a young woman who flees her insular hasidic community follows the typical convention of a number of books and documentaries portraying the ostensibly suffocating lives of hasidim and the quest of some of the braver souls among them…
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In “Unorthodox” and “One of Us,” a balancing act of hope and despair
The top question I’ve been getting for the past month is “What do you think of ‘Unorthodox’?” As Executive Director of Footsteps for a decade I’ve seen over a thousand new members come through our doors, and watched a community of people leaving ultra-Orthodoxy blossom into a global movement. “Unorthodox” is beautifully done, and it…
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