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…
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Books
Must Jews be defined by trauma? Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s sharp new novel offers a surprising answer
For decades, Jewish books, movies and TV have equated Jewishness with neuroticism. Why does it still define us?
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Remembering Arnold Band, a towering figure in Jewish studies
Band, who has died at 94, brought a classicist touch to his studies of Agnon, Kafka, Yehoshua and countless others
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Americana meets meshuggeneh at a museum exhibit about MAD magazine
The Norman Rockwell Museum show about the influential humor magazine presents a merger of two sensibilities: gentle and crude, rural and urban — and gentile and Jewish
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Art The distressing truth behind an exhibit about antisemitism — it’s always timely
In a Tribeca gallery, 21 artists confront an issue that was relevant long, long before Oct. 7
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Books She was a nice Jewish mother — and an organized-crime boss
Meet Fredericka Mandelbaum, who made a fortune from stolen goods and bank robberies
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Amateur detectives are invited to join search for a lost Jewish library looted by the Nazis
The Library of Lost Books project is trying to collect items looted from the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, known as the Hochschule
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July 4th hot dog debate: Nathan’s kosher-style vs. Joey Chestnut’s Impossible choice
Eating hot dogs is a July 4th tradition, even without Joey Chestnut at Nathan’s Famous contest
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Talmudic wisdom holds Trump to a higher standard than the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court just granted Trump presidential immunity, but the Talmud held leaders to a higher standard
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Music How two Jewish musicians turned front porches in Brooklyn into a vibrant music scene
Roy Nathanson and Aaron Lisman are turning Ditmas Park residents of all ages into jazz aficionados
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Music How a Jewish kid named Lou Reed left ‘the most boring place on earth’ to become ‘King of New York’
The career of the legendary founder of the Velvet Underground was filled with Jewish references and collaborators
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How do you write a meaningful eulogy?
The words we share also serve as a source of strength for the person as they make the journey from this world to the next
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Opinion How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
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Film & TV A new documentary challenges stereotypes about Orthodox Jewish women — and their wigs
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News Most Jewish voters rate Mamdani poorly, new poll finds
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Fast Forward After a Maryland teacher’s death, her 200-piece Judaica collection finds new life in a Jewish museum
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Fast Forward British Green Party candidate tweeted about killing Zionists from Anne Frank parody account
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Yiddish World New documentary captures the lively history of Yiddish theater in America