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Why Were Two Washington Nationals Named For A Canaanite God?
Now that my home team, the Washington Nationals, is in the World Series, their opponents, the Houston Astros, will find themselves facing a Nationals pitcher named Aníbal Sánchez. A second Nationals player, Asdrúbal Cabrera, played various infield positions until recently and will probably be pinch hitting. Both of these players were born and raised in…
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Who To Root For In The World Series — The Jewish Star Or The Underdog?
The World Series is baseball’s promised land, and for the second time in the last three seasons, it will include the sport’s best Jewish player, Houston’s Alex Bregman. Actually, that doesn’t tell the entire story, because the 25-year-old third baseman has also become one of the best players in the game, Jewish or otherwise. And…
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To Protect A Predator: How Ronan Farrow Unmasked A Conspiracy
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators By Ronan Farrow Little, Brown and Company, 448 pages, $30 While Ronan Farrow was investigating sexual harassment and assault accusations against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein for NBC News, Weinstein was reaching out repeatedly to Farrow’s bosses to quash his reporting. In one chilling exchange,…
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On Mars, A Jewish Quest For Life — And A Crater’s Tragic History
The discovery of life on Mars has been the stuff of scientific hope and speculative fascination for generations. Edgar Rice Burroughs put John Carter there, Ray Bradbury spun fantastic tales from the imagined landscapes of its dusty soil and, in 1976, NASA landed its two Viking spacecrafts on the Red Planet, making them the first…
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Art Art In Jerusalem Matters— 6 Biennale Artists Tell Us Why
The fourth Biennale for Contemporary Jewish Art is currently being held in Jerusalem, featuring the work of 200 artists in 30 exhibitions. The theme of this year’s Biennale is “For Heaven’s Sake,” and it centers on the Jewish penchant for discussion and argument. In that spirit, the Forward reached out to a half-dozen artists in…
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Will This Astronaut Be The First Woman (And First Jew) To Walk On The Moon?
On October 18, the first all-female spacewalk in history will take place about 240 miles from Earth. One of the women walking is a member of the tribe – and may turn out to be the first woman (and first Jew) to walk on the moon. NASA tweeted on Monday that astronauts Christina Koch and…
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Books Jewish Groups Try To Silence Storytime Reading Of ‘P Is For Palestine’
Jewish groups have issued a legal threat against a public library in New Jersey if librarians proceed with a public reading of a book called “P is for Palestine,” the Bridgewater Courier News reported Monday. The two groups – the Central Jersey Jewish Public Affairs Committee and the Zachor Legal Institute, a legal group that…
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‘Big Mouth’ Mouths Off To Anti-Semites In Its Third Season
The new season of Netflix’s “Big Mouth,” the subversive-in-the-extreme sex-ed show about middle schoolers’ animated adventures in puberty, features the following: The ghost of Harry Houdini; a mist of vape smoke blown into the shape of a Magen David; Neo-Nazis and falsely philo-Semitic Evangelicals; a Passover episode involving incest; a bachelorette party game where you…
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From the Archives: Sukkot Through the Ages
Before Jews could post about #Sukkot on Instagram, they saw it documented in our pages. From tenements in New York to small towns in Poland and Algeria, the Forward’s cameras have roamed the world for over a century, capturing the observance of ancient rites in growing Jewish communities. This year, we’ve combed the archives to…
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The Classical Trouble With Daniel Mendelsohn
Ecstasy and Terror By Daniel Mendelsohn New York Review Books, 378 pp, $18.95 With Daniel Mendelsohn, there’s always a classics analogy. Magazine editors, let us say, then, are like Roman emperors: the longer their reigns, the more frantic the reshuffling of power that follows. Robert B. Silvers edited The New York Review of Books from…
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From The Archive: Portrait Of Harold Bloom As A Young Man
It’s hard to imagine the legendary literary critic Harold Bloom, who died Monday at the age of 89, as a young man. This was largely by design. Bloom playfully projected the aura of a musty, Falstaffian ancient. But, before he became an expert on the English canon, his first language was Yiddish, and like many…
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