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 At 92Y, a quiet coda to an “exhausting” election season
Half an hour before sunrise on Election Day, New York City’s 92nd Street Y opened its doors to voters. About 60 people had already gathered outside, presumably hoping to beat the crowds. “People are very excited and voting like their lives depend on it,” said Aristotle Rosario, 44, one of the poll workers stationed outside…
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Culture Talmudic meme machine Shoshana Gottlieb is mixing parsha and pop culture on Instagram
Shoshana Gottlieb wants you to know she’s not an artist. Sure, she spends her free time crafting original graphics to post online. Sure, her work captures Jewish culture and tradition with a sharp but loving eye. And sure, she has a devoted following who come to her for inspiration and entertainment. Still, she says, “I’m…
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The Schmooze Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost threw a pandemic-era wedding without offending anybody
“Black Widow” star Scarlett Johannson and “SNL” pundit Colin Jost got married over the weekend, providing a definitive answer to the question people have been asking since they started dating: “Really? That guy?” Though the wedding took place last weekend, the couple broke the news on Thursday as part of a fundraiser for Meals on…
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Culture Nicole Krauss’s debut short story collection is an argument against staying calm
“To Be a Man” By Nicole Krauss Harper, 240 pages, $21.59 Noa, the teenage protagonist and narrator of Nicole Krauss’s short story “End Days,” wakes up with two disasters on her mind: the wildfires that have just “jumped the borders” into Los Angeles, where she lives, and her parents’ impending divorce. Compared to one couple’s…
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The Schmooze A special delivery from Paul Rudd helps Brooklyn voters brave the rain
This election season, the wait to vote can make midsummer Disneyworld lines look like a picnic. So by now, you probably know to bring a snack (or a meal, or several) if you’re planning to cast your ballot in person. But if you forget, Paul Rudd might have one for you. On Thursday, the ‘Ant…
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The Schmooze ‘Very nice:’ Kazakhstan is using Borat’s signature catchphrase to seduce tourists
Fourteen years ago, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” made a misogynistic, antisemitic and entirely backward version of its titular nation infamous. In response, the Kazakh government banned the film and threatened to sue its creator, Sacha Baron Cohen. Now, as the long-awaited “Borat” sequel beams into American homes,…
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The Schmooze Jeff Goldblum and the ‘Saturday Night Seder’ crew really want young Jews to vote
For the past several months, actress Beanie Feldstein has been hunkering down with her parents and phonebanking up a storm. Songwriter Hannah Friedman has been composing ditties at the behest of the Biden campaign. “Queer Eye” star Tan France, when he’s not cyber-stalking Beanie Feldstein, has been telling everyone he knows to vote. All three…
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The Schmooze Man Repeller, the Jewish it-girl blog that spanned a decade, is no more
In 2010, Leandra Medine Cohen founded the fashion blog Man Repeller from her parents’ house on the Upper East Side. Now, 10 years later, the publication, which in September changed its name to Repeller, has announced that it will close. “The company has been self-funded by its operations since its launch ten years ago as…
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