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 Get To Know These Three Latin American Jewish Poets On #WorldPoetryDay
On National Poetry Day, we introduced you to four of our favorite American Jewish poets. Now, for World Poetry Day, get to know three Latin American Jewish poets. There’s a surprising lack of their work in English translation, so if you’re a Spanish-speaker — all three are from Spanish-speaking Central and South American countries —…
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Culture Ruling On Roman Polanski Case Expected Within 90 Days
Almost 40 years after film director Roman Polanski fled the United States to avoid further sentencing after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, a Los Angeles judge is set to rule on what might be the last iteration of Polanski’s case within 90 days, CNN reports. A warrant for Polanski’s arrest has been…
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Culture Is This 23-Year-Old Brooklyn Native Opera’s Next Great Star?
Countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, at 23 years old, might be one of opera’s most promising stars. He’s lined up engagements for the next few years, appearing next with Virginia’s Wolf Trap Opera and the Houston Grand Opera Studio. His subsequent commitments are currently under wraps. He was just named one of the winners of the…
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Culture Is Michael Chabon A Better Writer Because He Doesn’t Use A Lot Of Exclamation Points???!!!
At least according to the forces behind the National Jewish Book Awards, Michael Chabon is something of an accomplished writer. But what, exactly, makes him so good? A new analysis by statistician Ben Blatt, author of the recently published “Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve,” measures how well a group of 50 authors, plucked from lists…
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Culture Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen Among Winners Of Prestigious Metropolitan Opera Competition
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, a 23-year-old countertenor and recent Princeton graduate, was named one of six winners of this year’s Metropolitan National Council Auditions. The award is one of the most prestigious granted to young opera singers; past winners include Renée Fleming, Susan Graham, and Eric Owens. In the competition’s last round, the Grand Finals Concert…
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Culture At Book Launch, A Broadway Playwright Discusses His ‘Lurid Past’ — And, Perhaps, Present
The night was cold and sure to get colder, and at the playwright Sherman Yellen’s Upper East Side apartment, talk of snow, predicted the next morning in abundance, was so earnest as to make one nearly see it already. In fact, ensconced in the warm dim light of the 11th-story living room with a glass…
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Culture Norman Podhoretz, One Of The Last Great New York Intellectuals, Is Holding His Ground
Norman Podhoretz, 87, has lost more influential friends than most people ever dream of making — among them playwright Lillian Hellman, critic Lionel Trilling, philosopher Hannah Arendt, and novelist Norman Mailer. In John Leland’s new profile of Podhoretz for The New York Times, one thing is clear: For Podhoretz, those feuds are as intellectually vivid…
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The Schmooze Lena Dunham Speaks With Ariel Levy, And More To Read, Watch, And Do This Weekend
Having safely gotten ourselves past the Ides of March, it’s time to celebrate with a weekend filled with the best cultural events across the country. In New York, spend Friday night at the 92nd Street Y, where Ariel Levy will speak with Lena Dunham about her new memoir “The Rules Do Not Apply.” (That memoir…
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