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Susan B. Anthony’s Jewish Sisters
February 15 marks the bicentenary of the American social reformer Susan B. Anthony. Deemed an “incomparable organizer” by historian Eleanor Flexner Anthony grew up in a Quaker family that possessed only a handful of history books. Yet these included two different editions, in two and six volumes respectively, of the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who…
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Bringing Jews and Palestinians together — through art, education and a new web series
As upbeat music plays, a pair of young women who grew up on opposite ends of Jerusalem but became schoolmates in the city’s only bi-lingual school joke, slipping seamlessly between Hebrew and Arabic. They’re introducing “Mish Mish,” a new web seriesabout two topics rarely explored together: Israeli and Palestinian culture. Referring to her Jewish Israeli…
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WATCH NOW: Being Jewish in the Time of Coronavirus
This event already taken place. Watch the video recording here. Join our live panel discussion, “Being Jewish in the Time of Coronavirus.” Jodi Rudoren, the Forward’s Editor-in-Chief, is moderating weekly conversations with Jewish leaders working to build community through this crisis. Our inaugural episode on Tuesday features Andrés Spokoiny, President and CEO of Jewish Funders…
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In ‘Chanel’s Riviera,’ it’s wartime and the rich are comfortable — and collaborating
There’s a lively market for stories about World War II that make it seem like a more civilized endeavor than it really was. After all, it’s fun to read about plucky Brits standing guard over St. Paul’s, American women gamely donning factory overalls and glamorous Parisians insistent that the high life doesn’t have to end…
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A righteous man in hell
Read this article in Yiddish. In October, the German academic publishing house WBG Theiss published the book, “Letters from Hell” (Briefe aus der Hölle), about Jews who served in the Sonderkommando at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. The volume also includes a new translation from the Yiddish memoirs of Rabbi Leib Langfus, prepared by the author…
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Behold: The trailer for Wes Anderson’s most Jewish film yet
We sometimes like to imagine the private rooms of Wes Anderson: The pastel wallpaper, staid geometry, old knick-knacks and, most of all, the reading material. Works on oceanography accrued for “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou” (2004); the collected works of Stefan Zweig, who inspired “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014) and J.D. Salinger, whose work…
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Books Are you there, Judy Blume? It’s me, Molly.
I spent my childhood summers in a small beach town near Mystic, Conn., swimming in the frigid Fishers Island Sound, catching crabs by affixing sliced hot dogs — or, in a pinch, mussels crushed beneath a paving stone — to thick white string and dangling the bait off the dock. I accompanied my older cousin…
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What Judy Blume taught me about sex, female friendship and hot tubs
Editor’s note: This piece was originally published for Judy Blume’s 80th birthday on February 12, 2018. We’ve republished it in honor of her 82nd birthday. It may not have actually happened this way, but this is how I remember learning about sex: My mother, when I was 11, bought me a copy of Elizabeth Forsythe…
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Did Trump really miss the point of this ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ clip?
President Trump has a busy cable news-viewing schedule, so perhaps he can be forgiven for not being up to date on “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” On Monday night, the president tweeted a (NSFW) clip from the show’s season 10 premiere that aired on January 19. He appeared to miss some crucial context, but that doesn’t mean…
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Did Kirk Douglas really use his last words to endorse Bloomberg?
Mike Bloomberg is paying online influencers to make his presidential campaign look hip, evidently anxious about cornering the youth vote. But the state of his base is perhaps best summed up by an altogether different alleged endorsement: That of film legend Kirk Douglas, who died last week at the age of 103. This weekend at…
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WATCH NOW: Jodi Rudoren to moderate: “Deal of the Century”: What Now for the Israeli Left?”
This event has already taken place. Watch the video recording here. Listen in as Editor-in-Chief Jodi Rudoren moderates a Partners for Progressive Israel webinar, “‘Deal of the Century’: What Now for the Israeli Left?” with Aluf Benn, Editor-in-Chief of Haaretz and Akiva Eldar, columnist for Al-Monitor’s Israel Pulse. Donald Trump and Binyamin Netanyahu recently announced…
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