Irene Katz Connelly is a staff writer at the Forward. You can contact her at connelly@forward.com. Follow her on Twitter at @katz_conn.
Irene Katz Connelly
By Irene Katz Connelly
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Culture Work-from-home veteran David Laskin on writing through the pandemic
While chatting with the author David Laskin I occasionally glanced over at my window, where a few ailing succulents liven up the gray apartment blocks on view outside. Laskin was doing the same, but he had a better excuse: His home office in Seattle, Washington looks out on the Puget Sound, with cloudy views of…
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The Schmooze We tried the vegan meat winning over New York’s legacy delicatessens
I had an unreal Reuben last night. The Reuben was very good, but I’m using the word in its literal sense, because this was one seriously devious sandwich. Nestled between the sauerkraut and melted cheese were slices not of corned beef but “Corn’d Beef,” the signature product of Mrs. Goldfarb’s Unreal Deli, an upstart line…
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Culture How an Israeli video whiz created the typewriter supercut that’s helping you be (or feel) productive at home
Typewriters ooze productivity — which might be why we love using them to procrastinate. If you’ve been on the internet in the last month, you probably spent two minutes and three seconds watching this mesmerizing montage of cinematic typewriters. The supercut, which went viral on the inspiration-seeking corners of the internet, is set to Leroy…
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Culture Sweatpants, sneakers, and lots of coffee: How the Jewish world is working from home
When schoolchildren of the future learn about the chaos and despair of the coronavirus pandemic, I hope they also learn that we explored Mars from our kitchen tables. As NASA’s Perseverance rover began its search for life on Mars, scientist Sanjeev Gupta made another kind of history by sharing pictures of himself controlling the rover…
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Culture ‘Slow, small, imperfect’ — round two of pandemic Passover comes with its own perks and challenges
This time last year, I penned the Forward’s inaugural guide to virtual seders. But the one I organized for my own family in 2020 was a hot mess. Muting was a Herculean feat that few could accomplish. Audio feedback dogged ancient blessings. There was an ill-fated experiment in communal singing. By the time we finished…
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Culture These filmmakers are putting Asian-American Jews on camera. Here’s what they want you to know
It’s a precept you’ve probably heard, no matter what form your Jewish education took: “You shall not oppress the stranger, because you know what it’s like to be strangers in the land of Egypt.” Found in the Torah portion mishpatim, that sentence is often cited as a command for compassion rooted in Jewish values. But…
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The Schmooze Netflix will debut a follow-up to ‘Unorthodox’ — but it’s not what you think
Whether you are pining for more drama about formerly Haredi Jews or simply have an unending appetite for puns on the word “Orthodox,” Netflix has you covered. Almost a year after releasing the blockbuster miniseries “Unorthodox,” the streaming giant announced a reality show entitled “My Unorthodox Life,” about Julia Haart, a fashion executive who left…
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Culture Farewell to Norton Juster, who guided generations of readers through ‘The Phantom Tollbooth’
Milo, the protagonist of “The Phantom Tollbooth,” may be just ten years old. But readers may recall he experiences a very grown-up brand of ennui. “Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he’d bothered,” we learn of Milo in the first pages of the children’s…
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