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In 1930s German And Austrian Art, Portents Of A Dark Future
Currently at the Neue Galerie, the exhibition “Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of 1930s,” is as fateful as its title suggests — devoted to paintings, photographs, prints and drawings made under the lengthening shadow of Nazi terror. It’s a show suffused with anxiety and denial. Many of the artists were representatives of the…
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Theater Why We Need Hanoch Levin Now, And Maybe In Yiddish
Going to see an intense, absurdist Hebrew play performed in Yiddish for 20 people in Manhattan’s West Village may not be the most esoteric entertainment I’ve enjoyed in my decade at the Forward (though it surely comes close), but explaining its significance presents a challenge. And yet, just like Hanoch Levin’s “The Labor of Life”…
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Film & TV Who Was That Masked Man In ‘Eyes Wide Shut?’
One of the most iconic moments from Leon Vitali’s career in movies – which began in acting and evolved to encompass an expansive range of activities working as what might with a good degree of understatement be described as an “assistant” for legendary filmmaker Stanley Kubrick — came as he was masked and anonymous. During…
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Visit the Lower East Side With The Forward
On June 10, the Newsroom Society will go on a walking tour of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Conducted by the president of the Forward, Sam Norich, the tour will hit the highlights of this historical neighborhood with so much resonance for the Jewish American community and for the Forward in particular. We will…
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Covering A Polarized Community — Jane Eisner At The National Jewish Student Journalism Conference
Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward will be appearing at the 2018 National Jewish Student Journalism Conference, a selective gathering of Jewish student writers, from 2-3:15 p.m. on May 14 at the NYU Bronfman Center (7 E. 10th St, 5th Floor, New York). She will join an editors’ roundtable called “Covering a Polarized Community” with…
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The Secret Jewish History Of Oliver North
In selecting Oliver North to lead the powerful pro-gun lobby, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is getting more than just the mastermind of the Iran-Contra Affair and a convicted felon who lied to Congress. They’re also getting a rabidly pro-Israel Christian evangelist who for decades has been outing what he claims are anti-Semites in the…
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The Iranian Revolution Still Haunts Its Jewish Survivors
I still remember the moment, 38 years ago, in the wake of the Iranian Revolution, when I overheard my mom tell my dad in a hushed voice that Dr. Parsa had just been executed. My mom’s shoulders were shaking and her voice was low. She said that the revolutionary forces had put Dr. Parsa in…
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Rupture And Renewal — Jane Eisner In Conversation With Jonathan Sarna
Jane Eisner, editor-in-chief of the Forward will be appearing in conversation with Jonathan Sarna the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History and Chair of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University. The Center for Jewish History will host the event at 7pm on Wednesday May 16. Professor Sarna…
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Roseanne Greets Muslim Neighbors With Islamophobia — Until This Happens
In this week’s episode, Roseanne hates on the Muslims. Spoiler alert: By the end, Roseanne gets woke. But how many racist jokes can the season’s highest-rated scripted TV series make without itself being racist? I wonder how I’d feel if Roseanne Conner (played by Jewish actress and comedian Roseanne Barr) made the kind of cracks…
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Associate Of The Swedish Academy Acts Like Philip Roth Character, Denies Philip Roth Nobel — Again
Somewhere, a giddy Wes Anderson is developing a film about an elderly novelist, one of the most lauded and prolific in the world, who spends his late years waiting eagerly for each October, feeling sure that this — this! — is the year he will be given his due, and awarded the world’s most prestigious…
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Amos Oz’s Daughter Claims Israeli Authors Can’t Win The Nobel. Is She Right?
Fania Oz-Salzberger, the historian, author and daughter of Amos Oz, took to Twitter to offer what she described as “one tweet and that’s it” on the subject of Amos Oz and the Nobel Prize. Tweeting in Hebrew, she made three points: “1. He’s not dreaming and he’s not trying. He knew long ago that it…
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