Mira Fox

Boston

Journalist @jdforward, covering religion and culture from art exhibits to memes. Vice chair @ForwardGuild — solidarity forever. ♎️ /♏️ cusp. she/her.

Articles

In wake of DC shooting, false flag conspiracies spread

2 weeks ago | forward.com | Mira Fox

It would seem likely, at first glance, that Elias Rodriguez, the 30-year-old man from Chicago who allegedly shot two people outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in D.C., targeted the American Jewish Committee event taking place in the museum as retribution for Israel's actions in Gaza.
I'm not Jewish. Can I still use the name Yael?

2 weeks ago | forward.com | Mira Fox

I'm planning to apply for U.S. citizenship soon after being a permanent resident for a couple of years. Lately, I've been considering adding a second name during the naturalization process.
No matter whose side you're on

2 weeks ago | forward.com | Mira Fox

Over the weekend, Haim - a rock band composed of Jewish sisters Este, Danielle and Alana Haim - got canceled for being, supposedly, Zionist.
No matter whose side you’re on — Israeli or Palestinian — these sites are gonna doxx you | Flipboard

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mira Fox

3 hours agoMicrosoft employee Joe Lopez sent an email to thousands of colleagues after interrupting the Build keynote. A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s Build developer conference in Seattle, Washington, this morning, protesting against the company’s cloud and AI contracts with the Israeli …
Ye's antisemitism is old news, but it's time to pay attention again

3 weeks ago | forward.com | Mira Fox

When the hip hop artist formerly known as Kanye West went on his first antisemitic tirade, some colleagues opined that we should ignore it. Why give more gas to that fire?
Everything you need to know about every Pope Leo

4 weeks ago | forward.com | Mira Fox

Once upon a time, popes used their given names. But then a guy named Mercurius got the job and everyone decided that a Christian leader named after a pagan Roman god wouldn't do, so he took the name John II. Afterwards, it became common practice for popes to take new, papal names. And in the past century or so, those names took on special significance, as a tool to symbolize the direction and priorities of their papacy. Which brings us to our newest pope, who has chosen the name Leo.
On a clever new show, a female rabbi makes Judaism modern

1 month ago | forward.com | Mira Fox

Reformed, a French comedy that just arrived on Max, is ostensibly about a female rabbi, struggling for acceptance; it follows Léa, a character based on Delphine Horvilleur, France's most famous female rabbi. (Horvilleur was even on the cover of Elle.)But the heart of the show isn't really gendered expectations or gaffes about how to address a woman rabbi (though there are plenty of those). It's a story of Léa grappling with the question of how to live in the world as a Jew.
For Christian nationalists, Trump's pope picture isn't a joke

1 month ago | forward.com | Mira Fox

Donald Trump posted an image of himself dressed as the pope Sunday, referencing the papal conclave due to begin this week. The picture, which appears to be generated by AI, was posted on Trump's accounts across every social media platform the president uses - Instagram, his own Truth Social, Facebook - and subsequently reposted by the official White House accounts.
For Christian nationalists, Trump’s pope picture isn’t a joke

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Mira Fox

1 hour agoThe former vice president stepped out Monday for New York City’s most fashionable fête. Kamala Harris has run for (and held) public office, and on Monday, at the Met Gala 2025, she walked into New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, joining a few hundred carefully selected invitees for fashion’s …
Why do Catholic Cardinals all wear yarmulkes?

1 month ago | stljewishlight.org | Mira Fox

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. If you’ve been tracking the gossip around the upcoming conclave — or if you’ve seen Conclave — I bet there’s one question dominating your mind: What is up with those hats? OK, obviously there are other, bigger questions about the secretive meeting of cardinals who will elect the next pope.