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 Ohad Naharin, Batsheva Dance Company Artistic Director, Is Stepping Down
Ohad Naharin, the longtime artistic director of Tel Aviv’s Batsheva Dance Company, will step down from his post in September 2018. As The New York Times reports, Naharin will be replaced in his position by Gili Navot, a former dancer and rehearsal director with the company. Naharin will stay on as Batsheva’s house choreographer. Naharin…
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Culture WATCH: Daniel Barenboim Makes Plea For European Unity
Daniel Barenboim, the famed and famously political pianist and conductor, delivered a moving call for European unity while conducting a BBC Proms concert by the Orchestra Staatskapelle Berlin on Sunday. “I think that the main problem today is not the policies of this country and that country and this and that,” he said to an…
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Culture 200 Years After Jane Austen’s Death, How Has She Influenced Jews?
Jane Austen, the well-loved British novelist who died 200 years ago today, mentioned Jews in only one of her novels. (That would be “Northanger Abbey,” in which the heroine shuts down a suitor’s casual anti-Semitism in a sequence of giggle-inducing awkwardness; points for Austen.) But the author has inspired Jews since her work first went…
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Culture Jewish Creator Of ‘Doctor Who’ Suggested Female Star — In 1986
Who, exactly, is Doctor Who? It’s simple, really: An apparently immortal alien who can time travel, likes to get into trouble, get out of it with the use of his sonic screwdriver (don’t ask), and, ideally, fight for the rights and wellbeing of the oppressed along the way. Oh, yes, and every time the Doctor…
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The Schmooze ‘Game Of Thrones,’ Beach Books And More To Read, Watch And Do This Weekend
We can’t lie: Our weekend plans might consist solely of laugh-crying at Fox News’s recent decision to refer to Jared Kushner as “Jared Kosher” and scrolling through apparently endless Kellyanne Conway memes. If you find those two pastimes less than attractive, however, we don’t blame you. Here are some alternatives. 1) Watch The seventh season…
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Culture Iconic Brooklyn Seltzer Man Eli Miller Retires
Eli Miller started shlepping seltzer across Brooklyn close to six decades ago. Park Slope transformed from a neighborhood marked by economic and social strife to one where a brownstone cost millions. “Girls” happened. Hipsters happened. “Williamsburg” became a name that evoked the chic, cool, and expensive, an enclave of scrappy artists no more. But Miller…
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Culture David Mamet Has Banned Post-Show Discussions Of His Plays
Do you like the work of David Mamet? Great! (Well, maybe; the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist has recently left the Forward’s critics less than enthused.) Do you want to produce, say, “Glengarry Glen Ross?” Go for it. But before engaging the audience in a post-show discussion about the play, make sure you have a casual $25,000…
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Art These Are The 23 Books You Need To Read This Summer
Summer! The beach! Camp for the kids! And maybe, this time around, endless hours spent inside, staring in horror at Twitter. If that’s a fate you’d like to avoid, look to one of the following books, which promise to be some of the most interesting releases of the summer and fall. Some will distract, some…
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