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December 24: Manhattan: The Forverts At YiddishFest
Catch Yiddish Forward editor Rukhl Schaechter at YI ❤ NY YiddishFest this month. Celebrate Hanukkah at the inaugural festival, which will run from December 21-29. YI ❤ NY YiddishFest aims to capture Jewish and Yiddish culture, as well as the spirit of miracles and light, freedom and artistic expression. It will feature theater, Klezmer concerts,…
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December 23: Manhattan: Hanukkah Celebration
Celebrate Hanukkah with The Forward at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan. On December 23 at 5 p.m., Yiddish Forward editor Rukhl Schaechter and JCC volunteer Susan Levin will light candles and help lead Yiddish Chanukah songs, followed by “pontshkes” (Yiddish for doughnuts) and other treats. Songsheets will be provided for the audience. To find out…
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December 22 and 24: Manhattan: Archivist Chana Pollack At Yiddish New York
Join Forward archivist Chana Pollack at Yiddish New York, where she will lead not one, but two discussions on how the storied publication covered important moments in history. Yiddish New York, a Yiddish culture festival featuring films, educational workshops, performing arts, art exhibitions and more, will run from December 21 to 26 on the Lower…
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Q&A: Seth Rogen On Tikkun Olam, Anti-Semitism And Killing Hitler
“I get a lot of acclaim in everything I do except for movies,” actor, writer and director Seth Rogen told me over the phone from Los Angeles. On Monday December 2 in New York, Rogen will earn another accolade: The Workmen’s Circle’s Generation to Generation Activism Award, which he’ll receive with his father, Mark. Mark…
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December 18: Beverly Hills, CA: An Orthodox Female Journalist’s Story
Join Forward Life editor Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt in Beverly Hills, California, as she shares her journey in her discussion, “Let Me Hear Thy Voice: Feminism, Modesty & Journalistic Ethics; An Orthodox Female Journalist’s Story.” Avital, who also teaches journalism at Yeshiva University’s Stern College, will explain the challenges of speaking truth to power, reporting on her…
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December 13: Chicago: Breakfast With Jodi Rudoren
Join Jodi Rudoren, the new editor-in-chief of The Forward, and Rachel Fishman Feddersen, CEO and publisher, for breakfast and a conversation about the future of Jewish journalism, the Chicago Jewish community, and how the two can best connect. Jodi, a former Chicago bureau chief of The New York Times, and Rachel will host the gathering…
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December 6: Manhattan: Conversation With A.G. Sulzberger And Jodi Rudoren
Don’t miss The Forward’s editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren and A.G. Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, in conversation with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue on “The Role of Journalism in a Fast-Changing World.” The event is Friday, December 6 at 7:15 p.m., immediately following services at the synagogue, on 87th Street in Manhattan….
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Art All Roads Lead Back To Käthe Kollwitz
This is the third in a four-part series of stories about the work of Käthe Kollwitz and how it influenced artists, activists and collectors like Dr. Richard Simms, part of whose collection is being exhibited by the Getty Center in Los Angeles. You may find the previous articles here and here. In 1971, as America…
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The Nine Lives of Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher, A Life on the Edge By Sheila Weller Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 386 pp. $28 She was a Hollywood daughter, ingénue, actress, muse, novelist, screenwriter, script doctor, comedienne and eloquently funny spokesperson on behalf of bipolar disorder. That’s just nine of the lives of Carrie Fisher that Sheila Weller unpacks in her sympathetic,…
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Remembering The Ultimate Jewish Polymath — Jonathan Miller
Jonathan Wolfe Miller, the English Jewish author, stage director, and medical doctor, who died on November 27 at age 85, proved that issues of identity can transcend conscious denials. During youthful appearances in the influential satirical review “Beyond the Fringe,” Miller played a character who announced: “I’m not really a Jew, you know, just Jew-ish.”…
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The First Yiddish Play Staged In America Gets A Timely Encore
When Boris Thomashefsky arrived in New York Harbor in 1881, before the Statue of Liberty — and before Ellis Island – he carried with him the spirit of a born performer. But he had not yet found an outlet for his talents; neither, for that matter, had America. Within a year of his immigration, things…
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