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A New Film Shows Garry Winogrand’s Life Up Close
When photographer Garry Winogrand died in 1984, he left the world thousands of rolls of undeveloped film. Since that time, those who knew him best have been reckoning not just with his backlog, but also with the legacy of the man himself. In the documentary “Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable,” opening Wednesday September 19…
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Art Nan Goldin Cries ‘Shame’ Over Purdue Pharma’s Anti-Opioid Patent
On September 10, 2018 photographer Nan Goldin continued her protest of Purdue Pharma, which she believes is turning a profit off of opioid addiction — and this time she brought backup. Hyperallergic reports that Goldin’s organization P.A.I.N. Sackler, the Appalachian-based arts collective Queer Appalachia and leadership group the Voices Project joined forces in a statement…
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Hear The Only Recording Of Freud’s Voice
What did Sigmund Freud sound like? We may imagine the heavily-accented, precisely-pronounced English fed to us by pop culture parodies and tributes from “Bill & Ted” to “A Dangerous Method.” While actual audio of Freud is surprisingly scarce, what little we do have seems to support the broader impressions that exist – though it comes…
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Barbara Cassin: What Hannah Arendt Could Teach Israel
On May 4 of this year, Barbara Cassin, a French Jewish philologist and philosopher born in 1947, was elected to the Académie française. Of over 720 members of the French Academy since the 1600s, Cassin is only the second Jewish woman, after the government minister and Auschwitz survivor Simone Veil (1927-2017). A third academician, historian…
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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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