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Netflix’s ‘The Spy’ Raises The Bar For Mossad Thrillers – But It Doesn’t Break New Ground
In July of 2018, the Mossad recovered a battered Eterna-Matic Centenaire 61 wristwatch from Syria. The timepiece belonged to Eli Cohen, an Israeli spy who, over several years in the 1960s, gained the confidence of Syrian generals and politicos before they publicly hanged him for conspiracy in 1965. The watch was returned to his widow….
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November 13: Baltimore: Reflections Of An Orthodox Journalist
Join Forward Life editor Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt.” Avital, who also teaches journalism at Yeshiva University’s Stern College, will explain the challenges of speaking truth to power, reporting on her own community, and navigating modernity and tradition at Beth Tfiloh Congregation on November 13 at 7 p.m. After her talk, there will be a Q&A led by…
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How Michael Bloomberg Keeps Reinventing Himself
Michael Bloomberg might be a more compelling figure on paper than he ever was in person. Coming from a family of humble means in Medford, MA, and betraying no great promise as a student, Bloomberg managed to make his way into Johns Hopkins’ prestigious engineering program and, from there, Harvard Business School. He got a…
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Lauren Bacall’s 6 Greatest Moments
Born Betty Joan Perske, the daughter of Jewish parents in the Bronx, Lauren Bacall would soon became the epitome of New York cool. She was the slim, caustic partner of Humphrey Bogart, whom she married at the age of twenty and starred with in such films as “To Have and Have Not,” “Dark Passage,” “Key…
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Pregnant At 57, A Woman Finds Tragedy And Reconciliation
On Division: A Novel By Goldie Goldbloom Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 271 pages; $26 The world conjured by Goldie Goldbloom’s “On Division” lies somewhere between realism and magical realism, at once vaguely possible and highly improbable. That liminal space seems just right for this elegant novel about a Hasidic woman cocooned by her close-knit faith…
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Yes, Really: There’s A Sculpture Of Hitler Praying At Winston Churchill’s Birthplace
Update, September 14, 10:40 a.m.: This article has been updated subsequent to the September 14 theft of Catellan’s “America,” a 19-karat gold toilet. Winston Churchill’s birthplace has just received an unlikely visitor: One Adolf Hitler. The Italian artist and provocateur Maurizio Cattelan’s sculpture “Him,” which depicts a kneeling, child-sized Führer, has been placed before a…
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Acclaimed British Novelist Howard Jacobson: ‘It’s An Anxious Time For Jews’
JTA — Howard Jacobson is a funny writer. He has penned several comedic novels, and many commentators said his 2010 Man Booker prize-winning work “The Finkler Question” was the first humorous book to win the prestigious award in decades. But Jacobson, one of the most celebrated authors in the United Kingdom and an outspoken liberal…
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Inside The Mind Of Arnold Schoenberg, The Genius Who Defined 20th Century Music
Editor’s note: Arnold Schoenberg was born on this day in 1874. 145 years later, we look back at the genius of the Austrian Jewish composer. What happens in the mind of a genius? Mozart’s mind was puerile; if his extraordinary sophistication with music extended to other aspects of his psyche, he didn’t show it. Van…
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Happy 103rd Birthday to Roald Dahl — Beloved Author and Vile Anti-Semite
Born on September 13, 1916, Roald Dahl, the beloved author of “Matilda” and “Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” would have turned 100 today. It’s an anniversary we mark with admiration and a bit of uncertainty as well. For, aside from his brilliant imaginaton and wicked sense of humor, Dahl was also something of an…
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The Odd, Jewish Story Of Hillary Clinton’s Surprise Performance Art In Venice
The day after the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton, the defeated Democratic candidate, gave a steely-toned concession speech in which she proclaimed her continuing belief in American democracy. She was near tears; many, watching, wept freely. At the time, her words came across as the wrenching final statement of a figure whose successes, failings, strength…
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Why Renia Spiegel Is Being Called ‘The Polish Anne Frank’
Editor’s Note: “Renia’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Life in the Shadow of the Holocaust,” has been published, drawing comparisons to the diary of Anne Frank. Last year, the Forward spoke to Renia Spiegel’s sister Ariana and documentary filmmaker Tomasz Magiersk about the diary. “Listen! Listen to me and understand. Some kind of fever took over…
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