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For These Lesbian Activists, The Future Has Always Been Female
In her first public statement since Donald Trump’s inauguration, released by video at AOL’s 2017 MAKERS Conference, Hillary Clinton uttered four words that caused a kerfuffle across the political spectrum: “The future is female.” As The Washington Post’s Katie Mettler reported, at the conference, which unsurprisingly skewed liberal — it was in California, for one…
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NSFW: The True Story of Shitgibbon: 2017’s Most Memorable Insult
Linguists, language bloggers, and amateur word enthusiasts are all taking special delight in headlines featuring the memorable insult “shitgibbon.” After all the blood-pressure-raising press featuring Donald Trump’s insults, ranging from “nasty woman” to “bad hombres,” Pennsylvania state senator Daylin Leach turned the tables and made news by calling the President “shitgibbon.” More specifically, in the…
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Trump Gives Frightening New Relevance To ‘Man in the High Castle’
In case anyone needed reminding, the transition of presidential power to Donald Trump’s administration from Barack Obama’s confirms that context matters. In the dueling aerial photos of the two presidents being inaugurated, Obama in 2009 and Trump in 2017, one shows the National Mall filled to overflowing, the other shows it with glaring open spaces…
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Stanley Bard, Longtime Owner Of The Famed Chelsea Hotel, Dies At 82
After a string of celebrity deaths this past year, the patron saint of New York celebrities has died as well. As dnainfo reports, Stanley Bard, once the manager of the Chelsea Hotel, died in Boca Raton, Florida on Tuesday at 82. As manager of the Chelsea Hotel, Bard turned the institution into a hot spot…
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Broadway Producer Lashes Out At New York Times Over ‘Big River’ Review
It’s rarely considered good form, in the theater world, for high-level creatives involved in a production — producers, directors, etc. — to respond to that production’s reviews. That’s a rule with which Jack Viertel, senior vice president of Broadway theater operator Jujamcyn Theaters and artistic director of New York City Center’s Encores! series, is admittedly…
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Could Crowdfunding Bring Us More Yiddish and Ladino Literature?
Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms have helped filmmakers, bands, visual artists, and regular folks in a jam. Now, the idea of asking friends, family, and the public to kick in dollars to make a project possible is coming to the world of literary translation — as Shortwave, an independent, not-for-profit publisher based in Oxford, turns…
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Why Israel’s Street Lamp Poetry Seems All Too Apt Today
Look up on some of the most famous streets in Jerusalem, and you will see poems or poem-excerpts affixed to streetlamps. I found the one pictured here, on a light-blue banner, high above Emek Refaim Street, which means The Valley of Ghosts Street. The phrase emek refaim appears in the Book of Isaiah (Chapter 17,…
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Did An Israeli Tech Company Accuse Trump Of Plagiarism?
In the (entirely justified) rush to criticize Donald Trump, people are turning towards some outlandish stories in order to sate their (justified) rage. First, there were the crop of false hate crime allegations just post election (we covered one of the false allegations in this article” regarding Trump and Russia. We can also add to…
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EXCLUSIVE: Paul Newman’s Lost Movie Returns — 55 Years Later
Paul Newman’s long-lost film “On The Harmfulness Of Tobacco,” will be shown for the first time in 55 years on February 20. The subject of an extensive and exclusive story in the Forward last November, it will screen at the Film Society of Lincoln Center as part of its “Newman Directs” program. The Lincoln Center…
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Constitutional Scholar Suing Trump Thinks The Case Could Make History
After Erwin Chemerinsky agreed to an interview with me, I sent a benignly gloating text to a friend who, in high school, had been my teammate in an intensive constitutional law competition. “Are you f****** kidding me right now,” he responded. Chemerinsky is something of an icon in the field of Constitutional law. Now, making…
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Have They Finally Found ‘Bugsy’ Siegel’s Killer?
We all know that famous scene in “The Godfather,” the one where the camera cuts back and forth between Michael Corleone attending a baptism and the slaughter of the Corleone family’s enemies. One of the most iconic shots (no pun intended) during the sequence is the scene in which Moe Greene, the Jewish gangster in…
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