This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish culture where you’ll learn about the latest (and sometimes earliest) in Jewish art, music (including of course Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen), film, theater, books as well as the secret Jewish history of…
Culture
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The urban sukkah: In NYC, they’re on rooftops, terraces, sidewalks and more
No backyard? No problem! City-dwellers build huts for Sukkot wherever they can
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Art He left Berlin with 10 marks in his pocket — he came back with an art collection worth hundreds of millions
Heinz Berggruen led a life on the road and on the run before he brought his artwork back home
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A Forverts truck has turned up as a prop in a Timothée Chalamet movie
The delivery truck with Hebrew lettering was spotted on a film set on the Lower East Side
The Latest
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Columbus may have had Jewish heritage — that doesn’t mean he was Jewish
The explorer’s writings betrayed a Christian fervor
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Books From snoot to tail, a 3,000-year history of Jews and the pig
A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish identity
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Film & TV What’s up with the swastikas and Nazi imagery in ‘Megalopolis?’
Coppola's polarizing epic is neither the first nor the best movie to make dubious points with Nazi motifs
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Film & TV How about we make the next season of ‘Nobody Wants This’ a little less antisemitic?
The first season of the hot rabbi show made its Jews pretty unlikeable — but maybe it's fixable
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Music For a Jewish jazz great, a 100th birthday is a time for a celebration and a new album
Vibraphone pioneer Terry Gibbs was born Julius Herbert Gubenko in Brooklyn, 1924
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When Robert Moses laid waste to the Jewish Bronx, was he trying to obliterate his Jewish heritage?
A new exhibit about Robert Caro's 'The Power Broker' sheds new light on New York's great creator and destroyer
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Will Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally resemble a fascist one from 1939?
Observers are predicting an event like a well-attended Nazi rally
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Film & TV Happiness and autonomy prove elusive in a Palestinian director’s moving family drama
Scandar Copti's 'Happy Holidays' focuses on an upper-class family in Haifa
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News What We Know About Jeffrey Epstein’s Childhood
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News An audiobook narrator told Zionists to kill themselves. A popular romance novelist hired him anyway.
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Fast Forward DNC finding: Biden’s Israel backing cost Harris votes for president
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Opinion The dark message behind Tucker Carlson’s attempt to drum up drama in Israel
In Case You Missed It
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Yiddish טשיקאַוועסן: אַן אַמאָליקער „אסתּר־המלכּה פֿאַרמעסט“ אין אַן אַרגענטינער שטעטלTidbits: A Queen Esther beauty pageant long ago in an Argentinian shtetl
די ייִדן אין באַהיִאַ בלאַנקאַ פֿלעגן יעדעס יאָר אָרגאַניזירן אַ ספּעקטאַקלדיקן פּורים־באַל.
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Books Why Walter Benjamin was all things to all people
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Opinion Benjamin Disraeli once saved Britain’s monarchy — the current one may be beyond repair
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Fast Forward Israeli bobsled squad is disqualified from Olympics after trying to swap in Druze teammate
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