Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jewish culture. Here, you’ll learn about the latest (and sometimes earliest) in Jewish art, music, film, theater, books as well as the secret Jewish history of everything and everyone from The Rolling Stones to…
Culture
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The towering Jewish critic who taught me to grok art and hate Picasso
After Max Kozloff died at 91, a New York community came together to remember and to mourn
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Theater Hannah Arendt is a detective solving the mystery of Eichmann in a new play
‘The Banality of Evil’ adapts Arendt’s famous dispatch from Jerusalem
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You should probably be aware of that Purim song’s problematic backstory
It was made famous by Harry Belafonte and Johnny Cash. And at least one version included the N-word.
The Latest
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Film & TV Will Aaron Taylor-Johnson make James Bond Jewish again?
The actor was reportedly offered the role of the fabled secret agent
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This Jewish artist got her start before WWI. A century later, she’s still in the avant garde
In the early 20th century, Odessa-born artist Sonia Delaunay pioneered abstract paintings, whimsical furniture and boldly patterned textiles that feel wholly contemporary today.
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Art How one wedding dress came to symbolize the strength of more than 2,000 Jewish women
Andi Arnovitz is one of seven contemporary artists in 'Threading,' an exhibition at the Jerusalem Biennale
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Theater How ‘Hester Street’ made its way to the stage
Joan Micklin Silver’s classic film debuts as a play at Theater J
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Film & TV Over 450 Jewish Hollywood professionals slam ‘blood libel’ of Jonathan Glazer Oscar speech
The open letter critiqued 'The Zone of Interest’ director linking the Holocaust to Israel’s war in Gaza
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Books A superhero, a scientist and a T. rex who scares his seder guests star in 2024’s new Passover children’s books
Learn about 11 new children’s books released for Passover 2024
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A new William Shatner documentary is more meet-and-greet than film
‘You Can Call Me Bill’ is an intimate, and often boring, discussion with a pop culture icon
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On April 8, God will turn the sun into darkness and the moon into blood
Solar eclipses are rare and scientifically interesting, but Jewish texts say they're punishment for sins
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The real Jewish history of Lt. Robert ‘Rosie’ Rosenthal, heroic pilot in Apple TV+’s ‘Masters of the Air’
Series creator John Orloff called Rosenthal “one of the most amazing human beings I have ever had the honor to write about"
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Fast Forward Ye debuts ‘Heil Hitler’ music video that includes a sample of a Hitler speech
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Fast Forward Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted Jews are ‘dangerous’
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Opinion Anti-Israel rhetoric is fueling an alarmingly powerful new wave of antisemitism on the right
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Sports ‘All my homies hate paintball Nazis’: Antisemitism scandal tears through paintball community
In Case You Missed It
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News ‘I’m happy with my choice’: Orthodox Trump voters worry about Qatar, Israel, tariffs – but stand by their man
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Fast Forward Resolution calling for ‘urgent delivery’ of Gaza aid co-sponsored by nearly all Senate Democrats
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Fast Forward Israeli left-wing leader Yair Golan doubles down after suggesting Israel ‘kills babies as a hobby’
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News Some of Israel’s staunch supporters are now using words such as ‘genocide’ to describe the war
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