Adrianna Chaviva Freedman is an entertainment writer living in New York City. You could find her work on her website and follow her on Twitter at @ac_freedman.
Adrianna Chaviva Freedman
By Adrianna Chaviva Freedman
-
Fast Forward Anti-Vaccine Myths Among Ultra-Orthodox Help Fuel Historic Measles Outbreak
The number of measles cases nationally may soon set a 21st century record, the Washington Post reported. As of Tuesday morning, the number of measles cases across the country had reached 465, spurred in large part by the ongoing outbreak in the Hasidic communities in Brooklyn and New York’s Rockland County, as well as an…
-
Fast Forward Doctor Who Tweeted About Giving Jews Wrong Meds Went To Jewish Medical School
Last week, a hospital in Southern California withdrew a job offer from Lara Kollab, an osteopath in the internal medicine residency program, over the discovery that she used anti-Semitic language on Twitter. The tweets, dating back to 2012, include some that evoke Kollab’s medical training: she wrote that she would “purposely give all the yahood…
-
The Schmooze A New Haggadah Tells Passover Story In Emojis Entirely
It’s the illustrated Haggadah like you’ve never seen it before, and it’s bound to cause conversation at your Seder. Coming out just in time for Passover, author, IT specialist and language-lover Martin Bodek of Passaic, NJ has created a Hagaddah using only emojis. With certain pictograms placed together in a specific order, the reader gets…
-
The Schmooze Vampire Weekend’s New Album References The Creation Of Israel
Imagine a rock album about falafel and delis, white supremacy and early modern Zionism. Whether you will it or not, it’s no dream. On their upcoming album, alt-rock group Vampire Weekend continues to quietly bring intensely Jewish themes into mainstream music. “Father of the Bride,” the band’s fourth album, to be released on May 3,…
-
Community My Orthodox Rabbi Father Taught Me To Love LGBT People
Growing up as a religious girl, I always pictured myself having a husband, enough kids to fit a minivan, and living in a comfortable home. I dreamed of having a wedding where I see my future husband meeting me halfway down the aisle and then finish the walk to get married under the chuppah. But…
-
The Schmooze Seth Meyers’ Wife Gives Birth In Apartment Lobby
Mazal tov to the Meyers family! Late night talk show host Seth Meyers, and his wife, Alexi Ashe, welcomed a second son, Axel Strahl, to their family. Alexi gave birth in the lobby of their apartment building. Their newest addition joins two-year-old son Ashe Olsen into the fold. “We get into the lobby of our…
-
The Schmooze Timothee Chalamet Is The Youngest In 80 Years To Be Nominated For Best Actor
It’s a dream come true for a 22-year old Jewish boy from New York City: Timothée Chalamet is officially the youngest actor in 80 years to be nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for his performance in Call Me By Your Name (2017). And we’re shepping a lot of nachas. (He also makes…
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
- 2
Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
- 3
Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
- 4
News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
In Case You Missed It
-
Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
-
Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
-
Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
-
Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
