Talya Zax is the Forward’s opinion editor. Contact her at zax@forward.com or on Twitter, @TalyaZax.
Talya ZaxOpinion Editor
By Talya Zax
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Culture Does A Jewish Museum Fashion Exhibit Shortchange Jewish Culture?
A new exhibit at Manhattan’s Jewish Museum, “Veiled Meanings,” opens on a striking note, showcasing three different veiled women’s garments that many Americans would not, on first look, associate with Jews, including the Afghani chadur. The exhibit, a brief chronicle of garments common in Jewish communities of the past, has the potential to be a…
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Culture Howard Jacobson, Simon Schama Condemn Labour Party’s Failure To Address Anti-Semitism
Three of the United Kingdom’s most prominent Jewish authors stepped forward yesterday to condemn anti-Semitism in one of the country’s leading political parties. In a Letter to the Editor published in The Times, Simon Schama, Howard Jacobson and Simon Sebag Montefiore criticized the Labour Party, led since 2015 by Jeremy Corbyn, for failing to check…
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Culture Q & A: David Lang, Bang On A Can Co-Founder, Bargains With God
You have suffered a loss. You are grateful to God. You rage, you plead, you express your love. You are a sinner, a mourner, a citizen, alive. There is a psalm for most every experience in the handbook of humanity. And through a monumental program currently running at Lincoln Center, “The Psalms Experience,” audiences can…
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Culture Movie Thursday: Tarkovsky, ‘1945’ And Sexual Assault Allegations
What is Movie Thursday? We’re thrilled you asked. Starting today, every Thursday the Forward will publish a roundup of its best film coverage from the last week. This is where you can find movie recommendations for the weekend, essays on filmmakers, film history and more, and the latest news about Hollywood. Thus: Lights, camera, action!…
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The Schmooze Leonard Bernstein’s Centennial, ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
The craze of Halloween has passed; if you’re still feeling sick from all that candy, there’s luckily a bundle of good, recently-released books with which you can happily stay at home and recover. If you’re not quite ready to hibernate there’s still plenty to do out and about, including more celebrations of Leonard Bernstein’s centennial,…
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Culture Q & A: Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs Biographer, Discusses New Book On Da Vinci
Did it ever occur to you, upon encountering a woodpecker, to wonder about the structure of its tongue? If so, congratulations: You may be the next Leonard da Vinci. Well, only if you’re also curious about some other things: How to divert a river, say, or walk on ice, or measure the sun, or turn…
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Culture Stephen Greenblatt On How The Story Of Adam And Eve Shaped History
Has there been a more consequential story to the history of humanity than that of Adam and Eve? In the assessment of Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare scholar and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Swerve,” probably not. But for Greenblatt, the significance of the origin story of Abrahamic religions ranges past its tangibly profound impact on the…
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Culture Tenement Museum, Nostalgic For The ‘Melting Pot,’ Highlights Contemporary Inequality
1955, the Lower East Side: Eight years after immigrating to the United States, two Holocaust survivors make a home in a six-room apartment. The rooms are big enough to live in comfortably, but only just. In a bedroom decorated in bright colors, its one slit of a window looking down at a staircase, their daughter…
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