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Their sons are fighting for Israel, and it's driving them mad
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (899+ words) Dana Igvy and Ben Sultan play a mother and son in the film "Oxygen." Courtesy of Israel Film Center Festival The films evoke a world where war and the threat of war are constants. The sound of warning sirens and…...
Tribeca Festival denounces pro-Israel celebrities' red-carpet jokes about Israeli dog rape allegations
5+ hour, 49+ min ago (629+ words) (JTA) " The Tribeca Festival has denounced jokes alluding to allegations of rape against Israeli prison guards made on the red carpet by the comedian and actor Elon Gold and pro-Israel influencer Lizzy Savetsky. The two Jewish figures made the jokes…...
Dave Matthews pushes back on claims his criticism of Israel is antisemitic
16+ hour, 50+ min ago (651+ words) (JTA) " Dave Matthews, the frontman of the American rock band Dave Matthews Band, pushed back on allegations Friday that his vocal criticism of Israel in recent years had crossed into antisemitism. Reading his remarks from a sheet of paper on…...
Memes, mashiach and "Torah-cyclopedias" put a Jewish twist on the Knicks" title hunt
18+ hour, 19+ min ago (848+ words) Knicks" fever has seized Jewish New Yorkers. Image by Forward staff By Louis Keene June 8, 2026 But this week, a different kind of redemption feels imminent in New York " and there"s a new face on the "Messiah" posters. With the…...
My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish" " the Knicks chant capturing New York"s soul
20+ hour, 50+ min ago (443+ words) By Mira Fox June 8, 2026 Perhaps you, like me, have had a very specific earworm for the last week. It's not a song, though there is a sing-song-y element to it. It's a chant: "My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish. My…...
The visionary Jewish poet who survived the Holocaust but not its aftermath
23+ hour, 4+ min ago (772+ words) By Julia M. Klein June 8, 2026 Paul Celan: A Life By Anna Arno Translated by Soren Gauger Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 416 pages, $35" During a 1969 poetry reading in Israel, Paul Celan's audience requested "Deathfugue," his most famous poem. With its hypnotic images…...
The Naked Woman" asks " what would Jewish Chekhov look like?
23+ hour, 19+ min ago (661+ words) By PJ Grisar June 8, 2026 Earlier this year, a lauded revival of Anton Chekhov's overlooked opus Ivanov occasioned the question: What if Chekhov, that great chronicler of overeducated depressives, was a bit more Jewish? That show has a substantial Jewish subplot,…...
John Lithgow wins Tony Award for portraying Roald Dahl in "Giant," about Roald Dahl"s antisemitism
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (750+ words) (JTA) " The actor John Lithgow won his third Tony Award on Sunday for his depiction of the writer Roald Dahl as an antisemite. Lithgow stars as Dahl in "Giant," which opened on Broadway in March. The play, which originated in…...
My irrational, possibly problematic obsession with an $85 yarmulke " The Forward
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (831+ words) By Louis Keene June 5, 2026 Growing up, we had a rule of thumb about yarmulkes: the closer yours was to your forehead, the more strictly religious you were. The'frum bochurim'placed theirs practically on their noses; the boys from Conservative families bobby-pinned…...
They helped elect Los Angeles' first Black mayor; but to him, they were just Bob and Shirley
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (762+ words) When Joshua Silverstein, a Black Jewish theater artist, was growing up in Los Angeles, he recalls one Ashkenazi couple, to whom he refers as Bob and Shirley, that had a particularly profound effect on him. Bob and Shirley were the…...