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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Fast Forward Fewer than half of Americans know 6 million Jews were killed in Holocaust: Pew
A few days before the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a newly released survey from the Pew Research Center illustrated what Americans know about the Holocaust — and what they don’t. More than 80% of Americans adults know that the Holocaust was a campaign to exterminate Jews; asked to describe it in their…
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The Schmooze Economist Joseph Stiglitz goes analog to rebut Trump at Davos in real time
Addressing a packed auditorium in the World Economic Forum in Davos, on the first morning of the conference, President Trump painted a rosy picture of the American economy, crediting his administration’s policies with achieving “an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen before.” It’s true that unemployment is currently at 3.6%,…
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Life For National Bagel Day, Forward staffers share their favorite spots
Bagels: we wait on line for them, we spend entire Sundays enjoying them, we gobble them on the subway in our darkest hours while strangers wrinkle their noses at poppy seeds cascading to the floor. Bagels are central to American Jewish life. Scratch that, they’re central to American life. Actually, this year scientists uncovered Bronze…
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The Schmooze Where’s Waldo? A striped t-shirt becomes an American Jewish sensation
The Siyum HaShas — a nationwide celebration that ends each cycle of Talmud study — occurs only once every seven and a half years. So when Brooklyn accountant Yonatan Gray had a belated idea for how to celebrate it, he had to wait a long time to put it in action. At the 2012 Siyum,…
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Culture “My Polish Honeymoon” proves you really can make a rom-com out of anything — even Holocaust tourism
Kazimierz, Krakow’s Jewish quarter, was once home to thousands of Jews. Today it boasts seven intact synagogues, a rarity in Eastern Europe, and a vibrant bohemian cafe scene. In its souvenir shops, you can buy tasteful notebooks stamped with the Yiddish alphabet, Instagrammable postcards of fin-de-siècle bourgeois Jewish life, and statuettes of hook-nosed Jews holding…
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The Schmooze Timothée Chalamet to portray Bob Dylan in upcoming biopic
When Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, he didn’t know that the greatest accolade of his life still lay ahead — the honor of being portrayed by an actor whose face is so precious people make money by superimposing it on Impressionist art. In other words, Timothée Chalamet. On January 6,…
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Life How to light a Yahrzeit Candle
Judaism provides several rituals to guide families through the difficult days and months after a loved one’s death. During shiva, the first seven days after a funeral, mourners gather in their homes with friends and family. For the next thirty days, a period known as sheloshim, they avoid parties and public entertainment. Even after these…
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The Schmooze Karlie Kloss’s Kushner Connections Come Under Fire on Project Runway
On Thursday, our favorite new member of the tribe Karlie Kloss was called to answer for her political connections on the literal runway. The supermodel-turned-coder, who serves as a judge on the current season of Project Runway, was taken aback when a contestant sardonically asked if she would wear one of his creations to dinner…
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