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Going Down to Funky Town

By Ezra Glinter

Here are a few lyrics from “Tweet Tweet,” the title track from Abraham Inc.’s recently released debut album: “We bring the nigguns from the street/Get off your seat/Stamp your feet/Come and touch me in the tweet tweet/Ya da di bum bum, ya da di bum bum, ya da di bum bum.”Read More

In a Closet With No Light

By Ezra Glinter

Homosexuality is one of the most profound and least tractable problems confronting Orthodox Judaism today. The party line — that attraction to members of one’s own sex is simply another illicit desire that must be overcome — is not a sufficient response to the painful experiences of gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews. “Eyes Wide Open,” a film by Israeli director Haim Tabakman, tragically illustrates this often denied truth.Read More

Raiding the Archive: Bringing Klezmer to the Masses Once Again

By Ezra Glinter

It’s a truism of traditional music that in order to go forward, you have to go back. To innovate on old material, you have to know the old material in the first place.Read More

Nowhere Near the Finish Line

By Ezra Glinter

David Mamet’s new play “Race” opened this week on Broadway. For all the claims the characters in the play make about the subject, “Race” itself advances one central idea: Obama or no Obama (and he is not, in fact, ever referenced), we won’t be escaping the tangle of racial-identity politics anytime soon.Read More

Seduced by Stavans

By Ezra Glinter

Ilan Stavans is no stranger to the pages of the Forward. Since 1994, the Mexican-American writer and critic has contributed numerous essays and reviews to the newspaper, including an article from 2007 called “Forverts & I.” In it, he reflects on his long-standing relationship with the Forward in both its Yiddish and English editions.Read More


 

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