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Ingrid Bergman’s Lifelong Love Affair With the Jews
Ingrid Bergman, who would have turned 104 today, August 29, is cherished by film fans, especially for playing two foes of the Nazis: Ilsa Lund in “Casablanca” and Alicia Huberman in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Notorious.” Her late-career incarnation as Golda Meir in the 1982 TV film “A Woman Called Golda” surprised some viewers. Yet her own…
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Setting The Record Straight On Christian Zionism
'Many Christian Zionists equate the modern nation-state of Israel with the land of the biblical Israelites'
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Fashion Designers, Artists Protest Stephen Ross’s Hudson Yards Art Space
An enclave for the arts near the Hudson River is the latest institution to feel blowback for billionaire businessman Stephen Ross’s support for President Trump. Artists and fashion brands are protesting The Shed, a recently-opened venue for emerging artists at Hudson Yards, the sprawling, $25 billion riverside development spearheaded by Ross’s real estate firm, Related…
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You’re So Vain, You Probably Think This Dating Column’s About You
“F—k you, c—t,” a man emailed me in response to an article I wrote about dating. “I hope you get over 30 very soon, lose your mediocre looks, and end up a childless feminist cat lady cause you don’t deserve to replicate and Am Yisrael and all humanity will be better off without your kind.”…
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How The Forverts Covered The Peekskill Riots In 1949
Editor’s Note: During the Peekskill riots, in late August, 1949, a violent KKK and fascist mob attacked attendees of a planned concert by Paul Robeson in Westchester County, New York. The violence spread outward, and a number of black and Jewish residents of New York City and Westchester were injured. The following is a translation…
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WATCH: How Standard Yiddish Pronunciation Originated
Dr. Hershl Glasser, a Yiddish scholar, lexicographer and Forverts contributor, visited the Forverts’ studio to discuss the history of standard Yiddish pronunciation and to explain why he champions it despite objections from many Yiddish speakers.
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The Secret Jewish History Of ‘Death Wish’
It has been forty-five years since the first “Death Wish” movie was released. It has a surprisingly rich yet hidden Jewish history. Before becoming as a movie franchise that has lasted for six films between 1974 and 2018, “Death Wish” started life as a 1972 novel with a Jewish protagonist. Brian Garfield’s book of the…
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Inside The 1949 Westchester KKK Attack Where Rioters Chanted ‘We’re Hitler’s Boys’
This article was originally published on September 2, 2009. It was re-published for the 70th anniversary of the Peekskill Riots on August 26, 2019, and lightly edited to reflect the new anniversary of the event. Peekskill, New York, on the bank of the Hudson River, was home to L. Frank Baum, the author of “The…
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Why Everything You Think You Know About Christian Zionism Is Wrong
'Christian Zionists do not secretly want to convert Jews; in fact many argue vociferously against missionizing'
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For The Anniversary Of The Hitler-Stalin Pact, A Look Back
Editor’s note: This piece, included in Ada Pagis’s collection of short fiction “A History Lesson” and translated into English by Tsipi Keller, was originally published on August 19, 2011. It was republished on August 23, 2019 to acknowledge the week of the 80th anniversary of Hitler and Stalin’s non-aggression pact. In the German war archives,…
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How Refugee Artists Processed Their Displacement During The Nazis’ March Toward War
In the late 1930s, as the global threat of Nazism accelerated, a number of Jewish artists fled en masse from Germany and Austria, seeking safe harbor wherever they could. “The Art of Exile: Paintings by German-Jewish Refugees,” an exhibit by The Leo Baeck Institute at the Center for Jewish History that began in June, tells…
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