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Barbra Streisand’s brand-new duet with Bob Dylan is a whole lot different than you might think
Though Dylan and Streisand's voices may seem ill-suited to each other, the two complement each other gorgeously on 'The Very Thought of You'
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Düsseldorf To Host Exhibit On Holocaust Refugee Art Dealer, In Turnabout By Mayor
An exhibition about Jewish art dealer Max Stern is once again on to be held at the Stadtmuseum in Düsseldorf, Germany, The New York Times reports. The news comes after Düsseldorf mayor Thomas Geisel reversed his own controversial decision, made in November, to cancel the show. It was set to open in February. The exhibition…
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Film & TV Movie News: Best Under-The-Radar Films Of 2017, Guillermo Del Toro Goes Biblical
One little-discussed aspect of all of the problems in the world is that they can distract people from the news about movies. The world is an endless conveyor belt of horrors, and this can keep one from finding out about what films exists. The Forward considers it a mission to help remedy this; read on…
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The Best Films You Missed In 2017
It’s the time of the year when people give prizes to movies, yet the vagaries of the hype machine mean that some worthy films are less-discussed than others. This doesn’t mean that you can’t seek them out for your own viewing pleasure. Here are four nice movies you probably missed this year that deserve a…
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Why Time’s Trump Cover Is A Subversive Work of Political Art — Even A Year Later
Time Magazine put Donald Trump on its cover last year. The Forward’s Jake Romm called the cover shot a covert act of political subversion. It became the most-read article in the history of our digital publication. A year later, his analysis rings even truer than ever. Time Magazine’s annual “Person of the Year” announcement is,…
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This 25-Year-Old Jewish Guy Plays SpongeBob On Broadway
NEW YORK (JTA) — There’s a new star on Broadway and his name is — wait for it — SpongeBob SquarePants. “SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical” opened earlier this month to rapturous reviews. And no one collected higher praise than the title character, played by Ethan Slater, a graduate of Ramah summer camps. For those unfamiliar…
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I Dated Lenny Bruce And Knew Joan Rivers. ‘Mrs. Maisel’ Gets Them Wrong.
For 20 years I had a successful career as one of the first female sit-com writers, with credits including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Maude,” among others. After a Writer’s Guild Strike in 1989, I moved from Los Angeles to New York and took a year off to re-connect with…
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How Games Pioneer Bernie De Koven Taught The Gospel Of Play
Bernie De Koven is a beloved inspiration to generations of game players and designers. For almost 50 years, his Jewish roots have motivated him to follow in the footsteps of his father and become a rabbi of sorts, a “shaman of play” for the parks, and the streets, and the ballfields, leading his “congregation” to…
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After Sexual Harassment Investigation, Jewish Museum Severs Ties With Prominent Curator
The Jewish Museum has fired Jens Hoffmann, a highly regarded curator with a worldwide reputation, after conducting an investigation into accusations of sexual harassment made by people on the Museum’s staff. Hoffmann had been suspended earlier this month while the investigation was underway. As of press time, Robert Pruzan, chairman of the Museum’s board, had…
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Swedish Music Videos Teach Children Yiddish
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Thanks to Yiddish’s status as an official minority language in Sweden, the Scandinavian nation finances many initiatives to encourage its use. Besides the yearly international Yiddish seminar, a program sponsored by the Yiddish authority in which lecturers and performers from around the world speak to Sweden’s Jewish…
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Uriel Weinreich’s 50th Yahrzeit Honored With Special Issue Of Linguistics Journal
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Although he is better known in the Yiddish cultural world for his landmark textbook “College Yiddish” and his “Modern English-Yiddish/Yiddish-English Dictionary”, Uriel Weinreich was also a pioneer in the field of sociolinguistics. Even today, 50 years after his tragic death from cancer at the age of 40,…
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Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, Landmark Manhattan Art House Theater, Will Close
One of New York City’s most revered art house movie theaters, Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, has announced that it will close in January 2018. The theater, founded, co-owned and operated by Dan and Toby Talbot, has been open since 1981. As The Hollywood Reporter’s Gregg Kilday reported, Ewnetu Admassu, the theater’s general manager, said the cinema…
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