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 Meet Trump’s Latest Nemesis — Steven Goldstein From The Anne Frank Center
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect began attracting a significant amount of public attention in late January, when its executive director Steven Goldstein published a statement decrying President Trump’s rhetoric and stated policy goals regarding immigrants. “As President Trump prepares orders to wall out Mexicans and shut out refugees from America, today marks one…
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Fast Forward Did Mike Pence Derail Clean Up Efforts At St. Louis Jewish Cemetery?
Earlier today, Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to Chesed Shel Emet cemetery, the Jewish cemetery just west of St. Louis that was desecrated this past weekend. He was accompanied by the Republican governor of Missouri Eric Greitens — who is, himself, Jewish. While many were happy for Pence’s visit, calling it a…
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Fast Forward Philip Roth, Stephen Sondheim Join Writers Exhorting Trump To Reconsider Immigration Ban
Philip Roth, Stephen Sondheim, Art Spiegelman and a number of other Jewish luminaries have lent their names to an open letter beseeching President Trump to reconsider restricting entry to the country for refugees from around the world and immigrants from a group of Muslim-majority countries. The letter, signed by 65 writers and artists and written…
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Culture Sean Spicer Is Fighting With The Anne Frank Center
On the day when President Trump most forcefully condemned anti-Semitism, his press secretary Sean Spicer is clashing with the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, based in New York, over whether Trump’s comments were powerful enough. Trump on Tuesday decried “the anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers,” including yesterday’s wave of 11…
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Culture John Lewis Turns 77 — Here’s How He Honored Elie Wiesel
Today John Lewis — civil rights movement hero, longtime Congressional representative, National Book Award-winner, preacher of the importance of seeking out “good trouble” — turns 77. Little speaks to Lewis’s significance as well as his own words. Whether he’s speaking about his own history, from his childhood in rural Alabama to his place on the…
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Culture Anne Frank Center Calls Trump’s Statement On Anti-Semitism ‘Condescending’ And ‘Pathetic’
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,” Anne Frank wrote in her famous diary. She would likely be proud of an institution bearing her name, the Anne Frank Center For Mutual Respect, which has wasted no time positioning itself as an outspoken critic of President…
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The Schmooze Paul Newman’s Lost Film, And More To Watch, Read, And Do This Weekend
With a long weekend ahead, you have even more time to take in the best cultural events in New York, Washington D.C., Chicago and Los Angeles. If you’re in New York, don’t miss the first public screening in over half a century of Paul Newman’s short film “On the Harmfulness of Tobacco.” Before you go,…
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Film & TV Why An Iranian ‘Death Of A Salesman’ Makes Arthur Miller Even More Relevant
Midway through Asghar Farhadi’s “The Salesman,” Emad, the actor and schoolteacher who serves as the Oscar-nominated film’s protagonist, seizes one of his student’s phones, hoping to delete photos the student has taken of him sleeping. He castigates the boy for the risqué images he finds, telling him his father needs to look at them. A…
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