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Don’t Compare Stephen Miller To Pig-Pen!
In an October 10 article in the Hollywood Reporter, Stephen Miller’s former third-grade teacher from Franklin Elementary School compared Trump’s Senior Advisor to the beloved “Peanuts” character Pig-Pen. How dare she? “Do you remember that character in ‘Peanuts,’ the one called Pig Pen (sic), with the dust cloud and crumbs flying all around him?” Miller’s…
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Music A Yearlong Celebration Of Kurt Weill Is Off To An Operatic Start
Responding to the current debate over immigration policy inside the nearby Beltway, the University of Maryland has declared a Year of Immigration. Part of the yearlong initiative is the University’s first Kurt Weill Festival, which kicked off October 6 with the German-born composer’s 1937 opera-oratorio “The Road of Promise.” “The reason why we’re studying Kurt…
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A Nazi Commandeered Her House. She Survived The Holocaust By Hiding In It Anyway.
An inquiry into the provenance of a painting by Egon Schiele has produced an extraordinary account of its former owner’s life in Nazi-occupied Vienna. Elsa Koditschek, a Jewish widow who sent her children to safety ahead of the German invasion, spent much of World War II living in hiding in an upstairs apartment of her…
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November 1: POSTPONED Scarsdale, New York : When #MeToo Meets The Midterms
POSTPONED In light of the Pittsburgh attacks, we are canceling, with regret, Thursday’s event When #MeToo Meets the Midterms – How Gender and Politics Interact This Election Season. We hope to offer some version of this program in the future. It’s been a year of reckoning for women. There have been countless stories of harassment…
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Music The Secret Jewish History Of Everyone Nominated For The 2019 Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall Of Fame
The nominees for the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony have been announced, and as in past years, it’s a diverse if somewhat bizarre group, ranging from commercial heavy-metal group Def Leppard to Detroit proto-punks the MC5 to pop-R&B megastar Janet Jackson to English art-rockers Radiohead. Trying to make sense of the…
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November 1: Manhattan: ‘Being A Yiddish Writer In The USSR After The Holocaust’
The Yiddish Forward is proud to sponsor Ber Kotlerman — author of the award-winning Forverts article on the topic — as he presents, “Being A Yiddish Writer in the USSR After the Holocaust: The Fate of Der Nister,” on November 1. Kotlerman, professor of Jewish literature at Bar-Ilan University, co-authored the award-winning Forverts story on…
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October 30: Manhattan: And What Does She Say?
Jewish Orthodox women have a lot to say. On October 30, join Forward Lifestyle Editor Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt for “And What Does She Say?” a panel led by accomplished Orthodox women. The event, at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Square Synagogue in Manhattan, brings together four women in leadership roles for an empowering conversation. Accompanying Chizhik-Goldschmidt,…
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October 18: Glencoe, Illinois: How Liberals And Conservatives Can Find A Common Language?
In this divisive time, how can we maintain civil dialogue, even with those with whose views we completely disagree? Forward editor-in-chief Jane Eisner seeks to find the answer. On October 18, she’ll host a discussion titled, “How Liberals and Conservatives Can Find a Common Language,” alongside Bret Stephens, New York Times columnist and senior contributor…
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Why Right Wing Claim That Kavanaugh Was ‘Crucified’ Is So Dangerous
Comedians often zero in on the Trump Administration’s tendency to depict victims as tormentors — and tormentors as victims. That’s how the #MeToo movement became a referendum on the rights of white men, the “sons” and “husbands” who could be accused at any time for no reason. Now we’re seeing a rewrite of the story…
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8 Questions For Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom has written his first sequel. Following his 2003 bestseller, “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” the prolific, Detroit-based author has returned to the story of Eddie the theme park maintenance man and the little girl, Annie, he died saving. The new book, “The Next Person You Meet in Heaven” out Tuesday, October…
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October 15: Manhattan: ‘The Forbidden Conversation’
Join Forward opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon in conversation with Gili Getz on October 15, following a performance of his one-man show, “The Forbidden Conversation.” In his show, Getz, an Israeli-American photojournalist and actor, shares his personal reckoning with the difficult conversation surrounding Israel within the American Jewish community. The performance, at 7 p.m. at the…
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