This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
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Jenna Weissman Joselit looks at Reconstructionist founder Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan’s efforts to get rid of Kol Nidrei.
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Sarah Breger goes to see the Jew-tastic cancer comedy “50/50.”
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Philologs responds to a South African judge, who inquires whether a woman of valor is like rubies, pearls, or maybe coral.
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Amy Klein provides us with Anthony Weiner’s Yom Kippur prayers.
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Jenny Hendrix investigates the history of Jews and Prohibition.
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