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 Chaim Potok’s Daughter On Playing A Muslim Mother: ‘Devotion Is Devotion’
Naama Potok, daughter of the famed novelist Chaim Potok, has been acting for over three decades. Now, as Playbill’s Joe Gambino reported, she’s taken on a role that’s entirely new to her: That of a Muslim mother in Iran. “I fully honor and accept the profound differences that exist between and among people,” Potok told…
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Culture How Milton Glaser Created The Most Iconic Bob Dylan Poster
In a famous line from the movie “Mean Girls,” one character remarks that another’s hair is “so big” because “it’s full of secrets.” Viewing Milton Glaser’s iconic poster of Bob Dylan, in which the musician appears in silhouette, hair a kaleidoscopic swirl, one might wonder at the significance of the coiffeur. Is it billowing with…
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Fast Forward Ruth Franklin Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
On Thursday, Ruth Franklin took home the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. Franklin was honored for her biography of the writer Shirley Jackson “Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life.” Franklin, a book critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review Of Books, and Harpers, among other outlets,…
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Culture ‘Indecent,’ A Yiddishist Love Story, Begins Trek To Broadway — But Where Are The Danishes?
On a Manhattan Monday, in an airy rehearsal studio far enough west of Times Square to make a grumbling city-dweller breathe with freedom, a group of journalists greeted each other forlornly. “There’s no food,” one photographer grumbled to another, affixing various implements to his camera. To his left, a journalist clutching a notepad and elderly…
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The Schmooze When Justin Trudeau Took Ivanka Trump To A Broadway Show On Welcoming Foreigners
Ivanka Trump accompanied Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau to the Broadway musical “Come From Away.” The musical tells the story of a small Newfoundland town that played host to over 6,000 stranded air travelers when American air space was closed during and following the 9/11 attacks. It’s a depiction of Canadian and American solidarity, a…
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Fast Forward Trump Wants To Kill Federal Arts Funding. These Artists Are Standing Against Him.
In President Trump’s first federal budget plan, submitted this morning, one item has stood out to proponents of the arts: Trump’s call to cut all funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The response has been swift, as over 200,000 Americans have joined PEN America,…
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Culture As Ruth Bader Ginsburg Turns 84, Revisit Her Greatest Moments From The Past Year
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has spent the last few years rocketing to pop culture stardom, as well as, you know, serving as a Supreme Court Justice. We loved her when, at 81, she admitted that she gave away “Notorious RBG” shirts as gifts. We loved her when, that same year, she introduced us to her “dissenting…
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Fast Forward Amos Oz And David Grossman Make Man Booker Prize Longlist
Israeli authors Amos Oz and David Grossman have been named to the longlist for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. The prize, granted annually, is a prestigious award for English-language literature. Oz was nominated for his first novel in a decade, “Judas.” Grossman was nominated for his tragicomic “A Horse Walks Into a Bar.” The longlist,…
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