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 Zac Efron wants to tell you how to live sustainably. You probably shouldn’t let him.
Last weekend, Netflix made the fantasy of every millennial woman who raised her hand too much in middle school a reality: Now, whenever we want to, we can watch Zac Efron listen with bated breath while a confident and qualified female scientist whispers facts about her chosen field in his ear. It’s a gray afternoon…
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Fast Forward ‘I feel ashamed and uninformed:’ Nick Cannon apologizes for anti-Semitic comments
Just a day after demanding an apology from the network that fired him, actor and TV host Nick Cannon made his own apology for anti-Semitic remarks on his podcast. “I extend my deepest and most sincere apologies to my Jewish sisters and brothers for the hurtful and divisive words that came out of my mouth,”…
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News Nick Cannon demands apology, declares network “on wrong side of history”
After being dropped by ViacomCBS for making anti-Semitic comments on his podcast, Nick Cannon has demanded an apology from the media giant, as well as full ownership of his show “Wild ‘N Out.” In an extensive statement posted to Facebook on Wednesday morning, Cannon said that ViacomCBS was “on the wrong side of history” and…
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Fast Forward Opinion writer Bari Weiss resigns from New York Times
New York Times Opinion writer and editor Bari Weiss will leave the newspaper after a three-year tenure. In a resignation letter Weiss posted to her website, she attributed the decision to what she described as an “illiberal environment” within The New York Times. “The truth is that intellectual curiosity—let alone risk-taking—is now a liability at…
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The Schmooze Is #JewishPrivilege a thing? Not so much, say Jews on Twitter
Family members lost to concentration camps. Last names swapped for less conspicuously Jewish ones. Pennies thrown on the school bus. These are a few of the anecdotes Jews shared on Twitter after the hashtag #JewishPrivilege began trending over the weekend. While the hashtag has existed for years, far-right anti-Semitic accounts resurfaced it on Sunday with…
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News Retirement of “Redskins” recalls an earlier name change — inspired by Yitzhak Rabin
Washington, D.C.’s football team announced on Monday that it was changing its name after years of protest from Native Americans, but the milestone move comes 25 years after the city’s basketball team did something similar. That decision — on the part of the team known today as the Washington Wizards — has a little-known Jewish…
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Life Q&A: a pair of podcasting dads on parenting through the pandemic
Yanir Dekel and Alex Maghen have a secret for parents who want to survive quarantine — it’s called couples therapy. “Even if you think your relationship is flawless, do it now,” said Maghen, half of the pair behind Daddy Squared, a blog and podcast tackling the down-and-dirty of gay parenting. Since 2018 Dekel, a web…
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Fast Forward Fast-fashion brand SHEIN removes swastika pendant from website amid outcry
Fast-fashion retailer SHEIN removed a swastika-shaped pendant from its website after shoppers raised an outcry on social media. On Thursday, the Instagram account Here For the Tea, which chronicles scandals in the style world, posted a picture of the item, a gold necklace titled “metal swastika pendant” selling for four dollars. The post quickly gained…
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