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Film & TV Why the hot rabbi is having a moment (again)
Adam Brody is set to play a religious leader with sex appeal — he isn’t the first
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September 27: Scarsdale, New York: Scotch In A Sukkah
Toast the new year with neat glass of scotch under the stars. Join the Forward’s whisky correspondent Dan Friedman at the JCC in Mid Westchester for Scotch in the Sukkah – Annual Guy’s Night Out!. Taste some delicious single malts, as well as whiskies of a broad range of ages and origins in a casual…
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September 20: Manhattan: Love Gilda: Film Screening Celebrates Jewish Women In Comedy
Gilda Radner stole hearts and elicited bellyaching laughter as one of Saturday Night Live’s first superstars. One of the most influential comedians of the 20th century, Radner — who died tragically of ovarian cancer in 1989 — is the focus of a new documentary, “Love Gilda: the Eternal Spirit of Gilda Radner.” Join us for…
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Gary Shteyngart On Asthmatic Readers, Greyhound Rides And The Scariest Jews He’s Ever Met
Gary Shtyengart’s new book, “Lake Success,” his first novel in seven years, follows Barry Cohen, a hedge-fund trader under investigation from the SEC, as he bails on his marriage and his autistic toddler son in favor of a Greyhound bus ride in search of the “real America.” It’s a midlife crisis road-trip novel set in…
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‘Oslo Diaries’ Tells Tragic Story Of What Might Have Been
“The Oslo Diaries,” an HBO documentary that will debut on September 13, is a heartbreaking retelling of the events surrounding the making and breaking of the Oslo Accords. The documentary, which reflects on the Accords for the 25th anniversary of the signing of the initial agreement, makes effective use of archival footage, material from previously…
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The Forward’s Past Events
From writer-at-large Jane Eisner discussing Israel with Peter Beinart to life editor Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt discussing the first Orthodox women’s ambulance with Ruchie Freier, and from Yiddish editor Rukhl Schaechter talking about women in Yiddish to executive editor Dan Friedman explaining the secret Jewish history of whisky in a sukkah, the Forward hosts a variety of…
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The Deaths Of Others: Why 9/11’s Great Novel Still Hasn’t Been Written
On September 19, 2001, an obscure Chicago politician was afforded three hundred words in the Hyde Park Herald to react to the September 11 attacks. “Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families,” he wrote, “I must also hope that we as a nation draw some measure of…
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Trust #PlaidShirtGuy To End Trump’s Nightmare Reign
I was wondering if I was reading too much into the near-convergence of Sen. John McCain’s funeral; Labor Day, the traditional kickoff of the campaign season; and Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish holidays of repentance and renewal. But when I saw that Steve Bannon called the National Cathedral service “the High Holy Days”…
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Gary Shteyngart Takes On The Trump Era (Again)
Gary Shteyngart was writing about Trump all along, and we didn’t know it. Consider the contents of his novels: Russian oligarchs undermining foreign governments for obscure reasons; the rotund failsons of the mega-rich, their gross bodies engorged on unimaginable luxury; the blurring borders between politics and multi-level marketing; and, despite ever-increasing inequality and the threat…
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Dorothy Parker’s Childhood Home To Be Demolished
Even Dorothy Parker, the queen of witty ripostes, might have had a hard time making light of this fresh hell. The West Side Rag reports that Parker’s childhood home on 72nd Street near Broadway will be demolished to make room for a 21-story retail and residential development. Parker, who would have turned 125 on August…
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Watch A Clip From A New Animated Film On Oliver Sacks
Famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks is getting the cartoon treatment. On August 28, 2018, Dempsey Rice, the director of “The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks” posted a short clip of the feature-length film to her YouTube page. Over the course of a decade, Rice, a photographer and documentarian, conducted extensive interviews with Sacks, the…
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Behold The Oldest Known Yiddish Writing In The World
A medieval Jewish manuscript bearing the oldest known example of the Yiddish language is making a rare public appearance at Israel’s National Library in Jerusalem ahead of the High Holidays. The Worms Mahzor, named for the German city where it was housed for centuries, is a richly illuminated codex from the 13th century containing the…
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