HEEB talks to the world’s most prolific “Downfall” parodist. Darren Aronofsky may direct a George Washington biopic. Yiddish theater comes to Johns Hopkins University. A Haifa street-art collective goes to London. The Israeli film “The Policeman” won the prize for Best Film at the Buenos Aires film festival. Shulem Deen writes for Salon about how…
Ruth Franklin tells us what we can learn from video footage of Anne Frank. Not everyone loves the new HBO show, “Girls.” NPR talks to Kazuo Ueda, author of the Yiddish-Japanese dictionary. Read our piece on Ueda and his work here. Cynthia Ozick has been shortlisted for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction. Jason Diamond…
In this week’s New York Times Book Review Steve Almond reviews Etgar Keret’s “Suddenly, a Knock on the Door,” and Jonathan Rosen reviews Peter Beinart’s “The Crisis of Zionism.” Read the Forward’s coverage of those books here and here. Listen to Gary Shteyngart read from Keret’s book, here. The Museum of Jewish Heritage wants to…
Brooklyn has a [new Jewish superhero.][1] A synagogue and a church will share space in a historic New York chapel. Joel Schalit writes an open letter to Gunter Grass. The Jewish Journal talks to Frank London of The Klezmatics. Herman Wouk, who will be 97 in May, is coming out with a new novel. [1]:…
Is the ex-Hasidic community about to get it’s own reality show? The founder of the Freelancers Union explains why Moses was the first Union representative in history. Celebrate Pesach, Andy Warhol style. Avi Steinberg gives his take on the New American Haggadah in the Boston Globe. Why the Seder is, or is not, based on…
Read the story behind Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap and it’s founder, Emanuel Bronner, a third-generation Jewish soap maker from Germany. “Six,” a play by Forward contributor Zohar Tirosh-Polk, has won top prize at the Jewish Plays Project. Will Sarajevo lose its 660-year-old Haggadah? Canadian immigrant Kathleen Reiter stole the show on Israel’s “The Voice.” The…
An expedition is underway to recover hundred of millions of dollars worth of art stolen by Nazis, which is believed to be buried in a mine. A.B. Yehoshua imagines a meeting between David Ben Gurion and Ze’ev Jabotinsky. Guernica magazine interviews Forward opinion editor Gal Beckerman. The Montreal Review of Books looks at a history…
The Jewish Museum shows how it created a 35-foot-tall wallscape in Soho for the current Kehinde Wiley exhibition. “Mad Men” creator Matthew Wiener is set to direct “You Are Here,” a film starring Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis. One school in Toronto is reviving 400-year-old Passover songs that haven’t been heard since 1644. Lianne Stokes…
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