Polish City Displays Two Faces
By Donald Snyder
Instructors at a ground-breaking college teach Poles Jewish subjects, while two miles away a popular radio station’s broadcasts demonize gays and Jews. In this letter from Poland, Donald Snyder explores this cultural rift.Read More
Afropoptastic
By Mordechai Shinefield
Twenty-five years after Paul Simon’s “Graceland,” American Jewish artists still draw heavily on African popular music. Ezra Koenig (left) and his band Vampire Weekend exemplify the indie Afropop sound.Read More
The Jewish Elvis, Anthropologist
By Dan Friedman
Melville Herskovits wanted to link African-American culture to Africa. A documentary centered on his quest aired recently on the PBS series “Independent Lens” hosted by Maggie Gyllenhaal.Read More
Evangelist for Silence Promotes Quiet Gift
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
A disadvantaged Brooklyn school observes a morning ritual conceived by a Hasidic Jew heeding the Lubavitcher’s Rebbe’s call for a moment of silence in public schools.Read More
‘No Alternative to Day Schools’: An Exchange
Scholars and educational experts respond to Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s recent essay “There Is No Alternative to Day Schools” — and Greenberg replies to his article’s critics.Read More
Love Is In the Air
With Valentines Day — the nondenominational day of love — around the corner, we asked Jewish celebrities, authors, and Forward editors to share wisdom from their first year of marriage.Read More
Black (Jewish) History Month In Film
By Dan Friedman
The black adoptive daughter of white Jewish lesbians in Brooklyn is the subject of Nicole Opper’s new documentary, “Off and Running.”Read More
Resist Segregation
The need to restrain the burgeoning power of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel grows ever more urgent. The latest flashpoint is public transportation.Read More
