Nadja Spiegelman
By Nadja Spiegelman
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49 Reasons Why 2016 Wasn't as Bad as You Think The Divines
‘Divines,” by French-Moroccan director Houda Benyamina, is set in the suburbs of Paris. The teenage Dounia and Maimouna know the limits of what the world will offer them and still dare to want more. A story of friendship told with the gravity of a love story, a hymn to hope and to hopelessness, the film…
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Life Feminist Battles for the 20-Something
Time Out New York’s daily newsletter was the only thing that popped up in my inbox this morning. After the fifth or sixth refresh in as many minutes, I found myself compelled to actually open it. I was immediately drawn to the “Street Fashion: Wall Street Happy Hour” slideshow. The Forward’s office is a stone’s…
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Culture WATCH: The Forward’s Exclusive Richard Dreyfuss Interview
Richard Dreyfuss is starring in the new off-Broadway play “Imagining Heschel,” in which the Oscar-winning actor plays Abraham Joshua Heschel — the renowned rabbi, theologian and civil rights activist. Dreyfuss recently visited the Forward studio, where he sat down with the Forward’s Dan Friedman. Video edited by Nadja Spiegelman
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News The Interview: Young, Queer and Orthodox
For young people in the tight-knit Orthodox community, being gay can feel extremely isolating. But ever since Mordechai Levovitz co-founded Jewish Queer Youth, a support network for queer Orthodox Jews under 30, there’s been a community ready to accept each other with open arms. He recently visited our podcast studio to discuss coming out to…
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Culture Lawsuit Filed Over Familial Dysautonomia Genetic Patent
A lawsuit now working its way through federal court is adding an interesting twist to the heated debate over genetic patenting. Two scientists from Fordham University are suing Massachusetts General Hospital over a patent on the gene that causes the rare Ashkenazi recessive genetic disorder familial dysautonomia. The two sides are each aligned with groups…
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Culture Court Ruling Could Affect Genetic Patenting
A federal court ruling striking down patents on two cancer-causing genes has the potential to shake up the world of genetic patenting. Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union, together with 18 individual plaintiffs, brought a suit against Myriad Genetics, which holds the licenses to the patents on the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which can…
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Culture The Interview: Unorthodox Desires
Miryam Kabakov, editor of a new essay collection about Orthodox lesbians,”Keep Your Wives Away From Them: Orthodox Women, Unorthodox Desires,” visits the Forward podcast studio to discuss coming out to her traditional parents, visiting a lesbian in the ultra-Orthodox enclave of B’nai Brak, Israel, and how she believes gays and lesbians can find their place…
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Israel News Schindler’s List On the Market
The only privately owned copy of Oskar Schindler’s list — which contains the names of 801 Jewish men, many of whom Schindler helped save from concentration camps — is now for sale online for $2.2 million. Gary Zimet, a historical document sales specialist, is selling the list through his Web site, www.momentsintime.org, on behalf of…
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