Samuel Eli Shepherd is a culture journalist and a digital reporting and editing intern at the Forward. He can be reached at [email protected].
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By Samuel Eli Shepherd
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Eric Adams and president-elect Donald Trump visited the Rebbe’s resting place earlier this year.
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Longtime Upper West Side residents came to pay their respects after the store’s unexpected closure
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The new Hallmark film about a Jewish woman celebrating Christmas is more sensitive than you might imagine
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Theater How Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner became “a match made in meshugas”
A new play, 'Gene & Gilda,' tells the story of a Jewish Hollywood power couple’s rocky romance
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Theater Leah Forster’s new off-Broadway show is anything but Orthodox
The ex-Haredi TikTok comedian on coming out and into her own in 'That's Yentatainment'
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Fast Forward Who is Steven Donziger, the Jewish environmental lawyer who politicians want Biden to pardon next?
Donziger was imprisoned and later put under house arrest after suing Chevron for $9.5-billion
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Community Readers help a ‘left-wing Zionist’ find their political tribe
From expressing solidarity to questioning their political views, 'Forward' readers had plenty of advice for a lonesome, left-wing Jew.
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Theater They created a musical about the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. Today’s activists are listening
"We Live in Cairo," now playing at the New York Theatre Workshop, takes on new resonance in light of pro-Palestinian protests
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