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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News For young Jews with time on their hands, new service program proves a boon
Every morning, Isabel Kornman, 24, puts on a mask and walks from her Washington, D.C., apartment to a nearby non-profit called So Others Might Eat. Stationed a safe distance from the few other volunteers allowed inside the building, she spends the day preparing food for SOME’s food bank and sorting the mail it receives for…
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News Q&A: Volunteering with chevra kadisha in the era of coronavirus
Before the coronavirus pandemic, Deborah Drillman, 54, was one of 55 women volunteering with the Chevra Kadisha of Queens and Long Island, an organization that prepares deceased people for burial according to Jewish tradition. Now, as the virus ravages Jewish communities in and around New York City, their work is more necessary than ever. Because…
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Life Meet the bakers who introduced Zach Banner to challah
When Pittsburgh Steelers offensive tackle and emergent Jewish ally Zach Banner posted a blow-by-blow video of his inaugural encounter with challah, Jews around the world found themselves a little verklempt. But the four hard-core Steelers fans who provided his first loaves were simply awash. “I was a mess,” said Sara Loffman, 27, the oldest of…
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Culture Forget Seth Rogen’s Israel comments. What did he say about Orthodox Jews?
The latest episode of Marc Maron’s podcast “WTF With Marc Maron” comes with a “trigger warning” for anti-Semites. “You are REALLY not going to like this episode,” the comedian captioned his chat with Seth Rogen about the star’s upcoming movie, “An American Pickle.” But, as it turns out, Maron and Rogen ended up triggering other…
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The Schmooze WATCH: Shira Haas can’t curb her enthusiasm about ‘Unorthodox’ Emmy nod
One of the time-honored traditions of any awards season is watching actors pretending to be caught totally off guard by news of their nominations. Desperate to seem “chill” and “relatable,” these celebrities want us to believe that they are too busy running errands or watching tennis to pay attention to the highest prizes in their…
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The Schmooze Seth Rogen talks Jewish identity and why he doesn’t want to live in Israel
On Monday, Seth Rogen joined comedian Marc Maron on his podcast “WTF” to chat about his latest flick, “An American Pickle.” The film is a romp through the Lower East Side of Jewish immigrant yore, so it’s fitting that the podcast touched on some key issues of modern American Jewish identity: summer camp, roots in…
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The Schmooze Demi Lovato is engaged to a nice Jewish boy from New Jersey
In the time it took most of us to stop touching our faces in public, Demi Lovato has shacked up with a member of the tribe — and locked him down for life. The songstress is engaged to Jewish actor Max Ehrich, less than four months after the two went public with their relationship. Lovato…
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Fast Forward Mort Klein and Ice Cube talk anti-Semitism and racism in two-hour conversation
Morton Klein, leader of the conservative Zionist Organization of America, has spoken with rapper Ice Cube about issues of racism and anti-Semitism. “I, Mort Klein, just had a 2 hour conversation with Ice Cube. We both grew up poor in Black hoods. Cube told me he thanked Jews for starting NAACP, many Black schools &…
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