Sam Lin-Sommer is an editorial fellow at the Forward. You can reach him by email at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter at @SamLinSommer.
Sam Lin-Sommer
By Sam Lin-Sommer
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Culture ‘I vow to be more mindful going forward:’ UK rap star Skepta apologizes for artwork seen as referencing Holocaust
The now-deleted tease for his new single, ‘Gas Me Up,' featured the song’s title tattooed on one of several pale shaved heads.
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News Long-awaited kosher and halal options to become available in New York state prison
A new bill guarantees religiously appropriate foods in commissaries and visiting area vending machines
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Art After the war broke out, Sara Erenthal kept making art — in the name of peace
The artist's new exhibition situates viewers in a big, diverse protest against the Israel-Hamas war
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Film & TV Leonard Bernstein was a big deal. Why does ‘Maestro’ make him so small?
Four critics discuss what Bradley Cooper’s biopic leaves out
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Art In Israeli jewelry, a profound meditation on life in a militarized society
A show at 92NY comes just weeks after the Y's Poetry Center canceled the talk of a pro-Palestinian author
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Culture This Israel-born, Jewish chef is demanding a cease-fire
Ora Wise joins a team of Palestinian chefs mobilizing the food industry in support of besieged Palestinians
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Art In painting the horrors of both Ukraine and Israel at war, an artist finds echoes of Picasso’s ‘Guernica’
Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi has been making art about the October 7th Hamas attacks and their aftermath
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Culture A high-tech answer to the dilemma of how to teach the Holocaust to kids without traumatizing them
"Courage to Act" at the Museum of Jewish Heritage uses hologram-like videos to recount the escape of 95% of Danish Jews to neutral Sweden
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