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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How Al Jolson helped to remake America
A new biography from Richard Bernstein explores the meteoric success of the Jewish performer, while confronting the reviled practice of blackface that made Jolson a star
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BINTEL BRIEF This father is fed up with his anti-Zionist kid — and they’re not even Jewish
Bintel says please don't be like Tevye, who sat shiva for his living daughter
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How the closing of a website for Yom Kippur confessions explains the internet
The death and life of AtoneNet, a living tapestry of Jewish guilt
The Latest
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Jews didn’t cause Hurricane Milton, but kind of did control the weather in biblical times
As flash floods threaten St. Petersburg, Florida, we consider Noah, the ark and how Jews pray for rain
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Sports 5 Jewish things about the Mets — and why Jewish fans adore them
The connection to the Brooklyn Dodgers, loving the underdog and bein’ amazin’
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New conspiracy theory just dropped — Jews are causing the hurricanes
Marjorie Taylor Greene accused a shadowy "them" of causing hurricanes in order to swing the presidential election
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Art What if there was a flag that both Israelis and Palestinians could take pride in flying?
Tom Haviv, creator of the Hamsa Flag Project, reflects on a utopian symbol’s meaning post-Oct. 7
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Film & TV In a searing new documentary, unimaginable pain and suffering in the West Bank
Winner of the Best Documentary award in Berlin, 'No Other Land' arrives with images of war and pleas of peace
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Why Jews see pomegranates as symbols of both love and war
The pomegranate tree planted by Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff has conflicting meanings
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Books Was the viral Ta-Nehisi Coates interview a hit piece or fair play? A journalism ethics expert weighs in.
After Tony Dokoupil’s questions on CBS Mornings faced criticism, the network said it fell short of editorial standards
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How my odious cousin Roy Cohn was responsible for creating Donald Trump — and me
For this author, 'The Apprentice' is a chillingly accurate film that hits way too close to home
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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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