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Culture May 28: Better-than-Ratner’s Blintz
Join Rob Eshman, national editor of the Forward and creator of @Foodaism for a live demonstration of his wonderful lemon blueberry blintzes. Better than Ratner’s? We think so. Follow along with the recipe. This is part of our new series, “#ForwardFocus: Talks in Trying Times,” in which Forward editors are moderating weekly talks with Jewish…
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Culture June 12: Live Q&A with ‘There are No Lions in Tel Aviv’ director
The Forward is excited to partner with the JCC’s Israel Film Center for their virtual festival, featuring a fascinating lineup of films! ‘There are No Lions in Tel Aviv’, a story of Max Shorenstein and the Tel Aviv Zoo, runs from June 7 through June 14. Catch the virtual screening and then join Forward national…
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Culture June 14: We Are Here: A Celebration Of Resilience, Resistance, And Hope
The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Sing for Hope, and Lang Lang International Music Foundation will come together to present “We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope.” This special concert event commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II…
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Culture June 14: Live Q&A with ‘Dayan: The First Family TV Series’ director
The Forward is excited to partner with the JCC’s Israel Film Center for their virtual festival, featuring a fascinating lineup of films! ‘Dayan: The First Family TV Series’, a series that follows five generations of the Dayan family — “The Israeli Kennedys,” runs from June 7 through June 14. Catch the virtual screening and then…
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Culture WATCH NOW June 19: A Jewish conversation about Juneteenth
Watch here. Rabbi Sandra Lawson, a chaplain at Elon University in North Carolina, and Tema Smith, a contributing columnist at The Forward, will talk with Editor-in-Chief Jodi Rudoren, about the holiday that celebrates the end of slavery in the United States, and how Jews are — and should and could be — marking it this…
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Culture WATCH NOW: June 17: Will Israel really annex the West Bank (and what happens next)?
Watch here. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to extend Israeli sovereignty over much of the occupied West Bank as soon as July 1, despite misgivings of the Trump administration. Is this the death of the two-state solution? Of Israel as a Jewish democracy? Of Palestinian national aspirations? David Makovsky, head of the Israel-Arab relations…
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Culture WATCH NOW: June 10: Meet The Winners of Our Young Writers Contest
Watch here. What’s it like to go to school in a time of curfews, Zoom classes and social isolation? Trapped inside, how do you manage to find freedom? Forward senior editor Adam Langer talks to the winners of our writing contest about being young, isolated and hopeful in 2020. This is part of our new…
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Culture WATCH NOW: May 27: After Corona: How our Jewish world will change
Watch the recording here. Does virtual engagement make our communities more inclusive or more polarized? Will day-school and camp survive? Will observance finally become more affordable? Join our editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren; Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick; parenting expert Bethany Mandel; Forward contributing columnist Alex Zeldin; spiritual leader of Lab/Shul NYC, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie; Executive Director of the…
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