Irene Katz Connelly is a staff writer at the Forward. You can contact her at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @katz_conn.
Irene Katz Connelly
By Irene Katz Connelly
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The Schmooze Donna Zakowska, fashion genius of ‘Mrs. Maisel,’ takes home costume design award
Midge Maisel has been the best-dressed denizen of the Upper West Side since 2017. Now, the woman who creates her enviable ensembles is getting some credit. At the Costume Designer’s Guild Awards last week, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” costume designer Donna Zakowska scored big. Beating out onesies in “GLOW,” Soviet-chic greatcoats in “Chernobyl,” the beatnik…
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The Schmooze ‘Leaning in’ to marriage: Sheryl Sandberg announces engagement to Tom Bernthal
Sheryl Sandberg may be the queen bee of Facebook, but to reveal her upcoming nuptials she turned to the platform favored by cool kids worldwide — Instagram. On Monday, Sandberg announced her engagement to strategic consultant Tom Bernthal in an effusive post that could have been ripped from a Valentine’s Day rom com. “You are…
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News Twitter’s meme du jour takes inspiration from a Bernie Sanders campaign video
In this year’s crowded Democratic primary field, where death by a thousand tweets can strike at any moment, the pressure is on for candidates to seem #relatable to their supporters. Elizabeth Warren films herself calling hundreds of donors; Pete Buttigieg’s campaign has embraced a jazzercise-style dance to Panic At The Disco’s single high hopes; and…
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News How would the tunnel Trump proposes between the West Bank and Gaza work?
President Trump’s 180-page peace plan proposes a tunnel to connect the West Bank and Gaza but didn’t offer details about how it would work. To find out what a project of this scale would entail, the Forward spoke to two experts on tunnel construction. Michael Horodniceanu, a former engineer-in-chief at the MTA and Israeli citizen,…
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The Schmooze Jesse Eisenberg is starring in the most chic Holocaust biopic we’ve ever seen
Jesse Eisenberg shot to fame playing the tech giant whose incursions into civic life we’re all busy #resisting. Now he’s playing a member of the actual, capital-R “Resistance” — but we still can’t stop thinking of him as Mark Zuckerberg. This spring, Hollywood’s worst interviewer is set to star in an oddly aestheticized biopic of…
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The Schmooze What you need to know about the female rabbi on the cover of ELLE France
From Simone de Beauvoir’s swashbuckling feminism to Agnes Varda’s ombre hair, France basically invented the alt-cool female intellectual. So when a leading intellectual appears on the cover of a fashion magazine, you can bet it’s happening in the country of liberté, égalité, and — today, at least — sororité. View this post on Instagram @delphinehorvilleur…
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Culture The thoughtful grace of Kate Middleton’s Holocaust survivor portraits
A U.K. exhibit commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz includes works by an artist more often seen in front of the camera than behind it: Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge and an avid amateur photographer. Middleton contributed two portraits to the Royal Photographic Society’s exhibit of photos of Holocaust survivors with…
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The Schmooze Here are some of the best Twitter tributes for Holocaust Remembrance Day
In a social media campaign organized by the World Jewish Congress, Holocaust survivors shared their stories and encouraged others to post pictures to Twitter holding signs emblazoned with the slogan “We Remember.” The Nazis conducted medical experiments on Sami Steigmann when he was just one-year-old. He is alive today because a German woman saved his…
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