We’re thrilled to partner with Watchung Booksellers for this Evening with the Authors virtual event discussing “American Shtetl.” This conversation will take place on Wednesday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. ET / 4:30 p.m. PT. Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels…
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This discussion will take place on Wednesday, February 16 at 7:30 p.m. ET./ 4:30 p.m. PT. Watch now. Who wrote the best Jewish pop song? Was it Bob Dylan? Or Leonard Cohen? Haim? Regina Spektor? Mel Brooks? Watch our panel of writers and critics as they debate who made our list. And why. And…
Watch now. Chutzpod! is a weekly podcast that brings a Jewish lens to life’s toughest questions. Hear how Joshua Malina, co-star of The West Wing, and Rabbi Shira Stutman are teaming up to relate the weekly Torah portion to modern life, in audio, with Jodi Rudoren. The pair have had radically different career trajectories…
WATCH NOW. Join a special conversation in partnership with the Washington Post and the Tenement Museum and learn about the Jewish American story like you’ve never seen it before. The storied museum and newspaper teamed up in December for an interactive essay that transports readers to a Lower East Side tenement. Hear from Philip…
Watch now. We’re thrilled to be a partner with JArts Boston on their Taste of Israel festival for this event. You simply can’t understand Israeli cuisine without understanding Sephardic cooking. Sephardic Jews kept their recipes alive through the dark centuries of the Inquisition, passing down to us a rich culinary tradition combining Spanish, Arabic and…
Watch now. The legendary Oscar-nominated mastermind of “The Seven-Percent Solution,” “Time After Time,” and three classic “Star Trek” films joins Forward executive editor Adam Langer for a discussion of his illustrious career, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and his latest novel, “The Return of the Pharaoh,” which follows Sherlock Holmes on a death-defying…
Watch the conversation here. In 1981, Jeremy Kagan wrote and directed the classic film “The Chosen,” based on Chaim Potok’s novel about two boys from very different Jewish families in 1940’s Brooklyn. To celebrate the movie’s 40th anniversary, Kagan will join the Forward’s executive editor Adam Langer for a discussion of the movie and its…
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