Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jewish culture. Here, you’ll learn about the latest (and sometimes earliest) in Jewish art, music, film, theater, books as well as the secret Jewish history of everything and everyone from The Rolling Stones to…
Culture
-
They were a kosher bakery success story — 80 years later, people are still trying to make a buck off their babka
The tale of Schick's Bakery is one of 20th-century ingenuity and 21st-century capitalism
-
Paintings of unbearable life in the Lodz Ghetto
An exhibit in Warsaw displays artwork created by Jews as a strategy for staying alive.
-
Music For Bob Dylan’s biographer, ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a dream come true — even if it’s mostly fiction
Elijah Wald's 'Dylan Goes Electric' inspired the new Timothée Chalamet-led Dylan biopic
The Latest
-
Why Pastramakah should become the next great Jewish tradition
Started in a Las Vegas bar, the celebration marries cured meats and the Festival of Lights
-
Film & TV This Hallmark Hanukkah film is a minor miracle
‘Hanukkah on the Rocks’ is not purely for the goyishe gaze
-
Every American Hanukkah special, movie and TV episode worth knowing about
Adam Sandler, Hallmark and Disney deep cuts for your viewing pleasure
-
A loss that leaves a bagel-sized hole on the Upper West Side of Manhattan
Why I’m mourning the closing of Absolute Bagels
-
‘A Complete Unknown’ proves that one thing about Bob Dylan will certainly endure
The new Dylan movie packs an emotional wallop, even if it fakes just like a biopic
-
Jewish New Yorkers sit shiva for Absolute Bagels
Longtime Upper West Side residents came to pay their respects after the store’s unexpected closure
-
How from where we started did we ever reach this Hanukkah?
A tale of friendship, resilience, holidays, family, Katharine Hepburn and the power of an unpronounceable acronym
-
Why are the accents in Jesus movies so weird?
Denizens of the imaginary ancient Middle East speak in an exotic-sounding, unidentifiable hodgepodge of sounds
-
The shuttering of Absolute Bagels on NYC’s Upper West Side is driving some to anguish — others to poetry
An elegy for the loss of the best bagel in New York — and maybe the universe
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Music 50 years later, Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ remains the standard by which all albums are measured
- 2
Fast Forward Elon Musk appears to do Nazi salute at Trump inauguration rally
- 3
Culture Is Elon Musk Jewish?
- 4
Music In lawsuit, Drake accuses Kendrick Lamar of picking on ‘Jewish heritage’
In Case You Missed It
-
Opinion Netanyahu’s rejection of an Oct. 7 inquiry is a national disgrace
-
Books Lee Yaron’s account of Oct. 7 attacks named Jewish book of the year
-
News How did the ADL conclude that Elon Musk didn’t give a Nazi salute? It isn’t saying.
-
Fast Forward Elise Stefanik decries ‘antisemitic rot’ in United Nations, backs Elon Musk at confirmation hearing
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
