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How Soccer Explains Israel And Palestine (Mostly)
More Noble Than War: A Soccer History of Israel-Palestine By Nicholas Blincoe Bold Type Books, 304pp, $16.99 With its tag line of “two great tastes that taste great together,” Reese’s Pieces is actually an outlier as a successful combination product. More often, when you take two previously proven ingredients and combine them, your audience is…
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Is It Kosher To Boo The President?
President Donald Trump had a busy Sunday. He began it with a 9 AM press conference announcing the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and ended the evening at Nationals Park, where he was booed by a crowd of baseball fans. Probably not how he thought the day would go. The jeering — courtesy…
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Music The Secret Jewish History Of Judy Garland
Fifty years after her passing, Judy Garland is having a moment. Renee Zellweger portrays her in the new feature film “Judy.” A new Showtime documentary, “Sid & Judy,” examines her life and career, focusing on her relationship with Sidney Luft, who served as her husband for 13 years and her manager for even longer. And…
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Kanye Features Kenny G, Name-Drops Barry Manilow ‘Jesus Is King’
Kanye West’s long-awaited ninth studio album, “Jesus Is King,” dropped Friday, breaking the internet in a manner only he and his wife, Kim Kardashian, know how to do. An extension of West’s Sunday Service gospel-rap group, it is Yeezy’s most explicitly religious record to date, nodding to old gospel standards and quoting scripture in between…
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The Real Mark Zuckerberg Is A Lot Less Impressive Than The Movie Version
Screenwriter and playwright Aaron Sorkin has written for politicians, presidents, news anchors, colonels — all, for the most part, fictional. But Sorkin did have a rare real subject in his 2010 film “The Social Network,” gifting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg with some of the most sardonic and arch lines in the entire Sorkin-verse. Lately, some…
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In Asia, A Mania For Kafka
On October 26, an “Unfolding Kafka Festival” featuring art installations, dance performances and film screenings, will open in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand. It is the third such biennial festival organized and directed by the Thai choreographer Jitti Chompee, marking a further advance of the Prague-born Jewish writer in Asia. Among its offerings is a…
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Without His Secret Identity, Will Superman Still Be Jewish?
The medium of comic books is a fundamentally American art form — and an overwhelmingly Jewish one. Superman, Batman, Captain America and the Fantastic Four all came from the minds and Bristol boards of Jewish-Americans, most of whom were first-generation. How these heroes spread from a New York nucleus of insular, and often nepotistic, artists’…
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Behold The Treasures Of Our Print Archives
Jackie Kennedy holding up a copy of The Forward; animation characters created by the Fleischer studios; Lower East Side residents in a matza riot; everyday life in Algeria, Mandate Palestine, the Upper West Side of New York and the ball fields and boxing rings of America. All of these images were created by press plates,…
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Auschwitz Exhibit To Extend Run At Museum Of Jewish Heritage
A train car that shuttled Jews from ghettoes to concentration camps, artifacts from Anne Frank’s secret annex and a shofar that was blown at Auschwitz — all of these objects are now on view at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. You now have more time to see them….
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What The Bible Tells Us About Quid Pro Quo
It’s rare for Latin to make headlines, but quid pro quo, the Latin phrase meaning “thing for thing” that in 16th-century English came to mean the process of substituting one medicine for another at an apothecary, continues to blare across news reports around the world. In case the extensive texts The New York Times published…
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Yiddish ‘Fiddler’ Will Close In The New Year – Here’s All Of The Forward’s Coverage Of The Groundbreaking Revival
After an 18-month run split between Battery Park and Off-Broadway, the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene’s Yiddish production of “Fiddler on the Roof” will take its final bow on January 5, 2020. But the show’s departure should be cause for celebration. Like the Hanukkah oil, the show’s footlights burned longer than anyone anticipated, with the award-winning…
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