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1 month ago | 
forward.com | Sam Shepherd
In Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years, now playing on Broadway, the main character is ecstatic to date anyone other than a Jewish woman. "If you had a tattoo, that wouldn't matter, If you had a shaved head, that would be cool," sings Jamie, a novelist, after his first date with Cathy, an actress. "If you came from Spain or Japan or the back of a van, just as long as you're not from Hebrew school," he continues.
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1 month ago | 
forward.com | Sam Shepherd
Before he was given access to insider information about the United States cabinet's most secretive war plans, Jeffrey Goldberg spent some of the early years of his journalism career at the Forward. As a reporter, New York bureau chief and columnist from 1992 to 1998, he wrote about the declining health of the Lubavitcher rebbe, the Reform movement's embrace of same-sex marriage and his own shifting views on Zionism, among other topics.
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1 month ago | 
forward.com | Sam Shepherd
Not even a prince could save Disney's live-action remake of Snow White, which had a grim debut this weekend. With a budget of $250 million, the film only recouped $43 million at the box office. On the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a dismal average rating of 43%. Even before Snow White hit cinemas, the film's production was poisoned with controversy.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Sam Shepherd
9 hours agoIsrael's latest war plans: To occupy Gaza and rule PalestiniansTEL AVIV, Israel — The Israeli military has drawn up plans for a major ground invasion into Gaza to fully occupy the territory within a few months and establish military rule there, according to two people who reviewed the war plans.
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2 months ago | 
forward.com | Sam Shepherd
Before we meet Adam in As Time Goes By, a new off-Broadway play about gay male hookup culture, we meet his apartment. Overlooking Riverside Drive, Adam's studio is every modern Manhattanite's dream. The bedsheets are a subtle, masculine grey. A record player spins next to an exposed brick wall. The only clutter in the room consists of a couple of scattered cardboard boxes that give us a clue as to how recently Adam moved in.
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2 months ago | 
forward.com | Sam Shepherd
After No Other Land won the Oscar for Best Documentary last weekend, some critics online said the filmmakers forgot to thank a crucial player in the film's production. "1. Hayim Katsman was a peace activist in Israel who volunteered to help film 'No Other Land that just won the Oscar for best documentary," posted the Israel advocacy account Hamas Atrocities on X Monday. "2. Hayim was murdered by Hamas terrorists on October 7th. 3.
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2 months ago | 
forward.com | Sam Shepherd
In both Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist and Allison Epstein's novel, Fagin The Thief, the word "Jew" appears more than 300 times. But there's a big difference in how the authors use the word. In Dickens' 1838 original, the term "Jew" is interchangeable with the character Fagin, the wily mastermind who takes in a gang of orphaned boys in London and trains them to be pickpockets. The text refers to Fagin as "the Jew" more often than it does his own name.
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2 months ago | 
forward.com | Sam Shepherd
When a Barbra Steisand lookalike, dressed in a sequined black gown and a platinum blonde wig, walked up on stage Wednesday night, the Williamsburg crowd cheered as if the real Streisand had flown in from California to dazzle them. The audience hollered and spilled popcorn as she sang selections from The Way We Were and A Star is Born, before she introduced the evening's main event: a screening of Yentl.
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2 months ago | 
forward.com | Sam Shepherd
A popular pro-Israel social media influencer incited outrage over the weekend when she posted a video on her Instagram of far-right Israeli nationalist Meir Kahane delivering a speech about how Israel ought to use force to inspire fear among Palestinians. "Rabbi Meir Kahane, of blessed memory, was labeled as a violent extremist, but he was right," Lizzy Savetsky wrote in the post's caption. "This is the truth right here. The only language the Arabs understand is force and fear.
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2 months ago | 
canberradaily.com.au | Sam Shepherd
It likely comes as no surprise to learn that the past few years have been difficult for Australian businesses. From the starting days of the 2020s, business owners have needed to navigate the uncharted waters of lockdowns, looming recession concerns, and rising inflation, all whilst dealing with a landscape that has been irrevocably changed by COVID-19 and global political instability.
