Talya Zax
The Jewish Daily Forward
New York, NY, United States
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The best of the New York Jewish Film Festival + the Resistance fighter who invented the abortion pill
Today: A shocking violation on an Orthodox influencer’s Instagram, Trump makes an inapt Nazi comparison, and the thrill of learning a baseball star might be Jewish. → Read More
‘Living through them does not work’: New book calls for American Jews to rethink relationship to Israel
Good morning! I’m your Forwarding chauffeur this week — beep beep. Today: The history of kosher kitchens in government residences, a spate of antisemitic incidents in Florida and a setback for LGBTQ students challenging policy at religious universities. → Read More
Finding artistic inspiration in Jewish burial rituals + How Kushner navigated Trump-Biden transition
Today: AI wrote this Shabbat sermon, U.N. condemns new Israeli sanctions on Palestinians, and our new podcast about Anne Frank. → Read More
We listened to Kanye West’s three-hour antisemitic rant so you don’t have to
Good morning! Benyamin Cohen is off, so I am the news queen. (Huzzah.) Today: The White House blasts Trump’s comments as antisemitic; the great Dutch-Jewish boxer betrayed by a teammate during WWII; and a new honor for the first female American Jewish novelist. → Read More
Republicans keep comparing abortion to the Holocaust + Shooting outside Rep. Lee Zeldin’s home
Good morning! Benyamin Cohen is off today and tomorrow, so you are mine, mine, all mine — haha! Today: Kanye West pivots to antisemitism, a portrait of Hitler in a 7th grade classroom and a moment of long-awaited joy for a small New Mexico Jewish community. → Read More
The Jewish justice who helped preserve abortion rights in Kansas + What AIPAC had to do with Andy Levin’s defeat
This article is part of our morning briefing. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox each weekday. Benyamin Cohen is off this week, so I’m filling in on the Forwarding desk. Meet the Jewish judge who helped protect abortion in Kansas. Three years ago, Justice Eric Rosen joined a 6-1 majority of the Kansas... → Read More
What Anne Frank has to do with a Forward editor’s new novel + GOP candidate said abortion is worse than the Holocaust
This article is part of our morning briefing. Click here to get it delivered to your inbox each weekday. Benyamin has the week off, so I’m filling in on the Forwarding desk. “Cyclorama” is a new novel, out today, that examines the effects a high school production of “The Diary of Anne Frank” had on the... → Read More
A sneak peek at Jared Kushner’s memoir + AIPAC spending in this week’s state primaries
Jared Kushner opens up about his Judaism, Ivanka Trump’s conversion and relations with Netanyahu: In a memoir slated for publication on Aug. 23, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and trusted adviser shares tidbits about his Shabbat observance, keeping kosher in the White House and the Trump administration’s Middle East policy initiatives. We’ve got excerpts from a... → Read More
Never have I ever missed Stephen Sondheim more than I do today
What would Sondheim have made of the way we connect to each other now? What would he have seen that the rest of us are likely to miss? → Read More
What we look at when we look at Joan Didion
It's the first thing I think about when I think about Joan Didion: a portrait of her taken in 1996 by the great photographer Irving Penn. → Read More
The Sally Rooney boycott brouhaha is right out of a Sally Rooney novel
Rooney gets that every part of the conflict over her boycott is a gesture of almost monumental insignificance. → Read More
‘Pride is also a Yizkor’: Remembering LGBTQ Jews we’ve lost
“Pride is also a Yizkor.” Those were the words of the Forward’s archivist, Chana Pollack, early in Pride month, as she and I discussed her planned dive into the Forward’s archives in search of its queer history. Her point: Generations of LGBTQ Jews who have faced exclusion from their families and communities have wondered who... → Read More
In ‘Here Today,’ Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish give us the Jewish story we weren’t looking for
Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal star in "Here Today," a film about dementia. → Read More
Trump grants pardon to Jared Kushner’s father, Charles Kushner
Charles Kushner, father of President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, has been pardoned for crimes to which he pleaded guilty in 2004. → Read More
Chagall’s massive ‘Magic Flute’ curtain is up for auction
The 44-by-65-foot curtain is was part of Chagall’s only opera design. → Read More
Pence’s debate fly has a Talmudic ancestor
In the Vice Presidential Debate, a fly landed on his head. In the Talmud, a similar instance occurred with another powerful second-in-command. → Read More
Is Philip Roth the male Joan Didion? Asking for TikTok
A TikTok user claimed that Philip Roth is Joan Didion for men who are too insecure in their masculinity to read Joan Didion. We investigate. → Read More
For America, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a new kind of Jew
Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped the public form an instinctive bond between Judaism and the quest for social justice. → Read More
Why did The Guardian say Ruth Bader Ginsburg ‘abandoned’ her faith?
For several days, The Guardian's obituary on RBG stated that she had "abandoned" her religion. Here's why that's false, and even dangerous. → Read More
What would Ginsburg do? Move forward with hope.
I'll wear my Ruth Bader Ginsburg face mask just once — to exercise a right she fought to preserve. → Read More