for Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Television/Film ›

Why Fran Fine — sorry, Fran Drescher — is the union queen we all needed

Mira Fox in Forward

Fran Drescher, known for her role in The Nanny, has emerged as a strong advocate for labor rights as the president of SAG-AFTRA during a joint strike with the WGA over issues like low pay in the streaming industry.

Politics ›

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Top GOP Senate recruit breaks with party leaders on foreign policy

Matthew Kassel in Jewish Insider

Sam Brown, a retired Army captain and rising Republican Senate candidate in Nevada, is making waves with his non-interventionist foreign policy stance.

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July 18's Short Reads

Moment Great Women Yiddish Writers (You Never Heard About) with Anita Norich and Lisa Newman

Rationalist Judaism Rashi's Giants

Jewish Currents Step by Step - Can Holocaust remembrance stones break Spain's "Pact of Silence" around its civil war?

Jewish Currents Open - The images that comprise <em>Open</em> evoke the almost spectral omnipresence of a malevolent state power.

Jewish Currents The Theologian of the Abyss - "He claimed that God did not exist, and if He did exist, must be an idiot."

Jewish Currents The Strange Logic of Germany’s Antisemitism Bureaucrats - An army of antisemitism commissioners was supposed to help Germany atone for its past. Critics say it is evidence of a memory effort gone haywire.

Tablet The Austerity Diet

Tablet The Spy Who Loved Me

Lehrhaus The Odds of Orthodoxy

Forward How Albert Einstein inspired Mandy Patinkin to rescue refugees

Forward What do Jewish, Christian and Muslim artists talk about when they talk about 'Genesis'?

Forward We need to talk about RFK Jr.'s antisemitic conspiracy mongering

The Beinart Notebook Divided Against Myself in Israel-Palestine

Tablet Lament for Susan

Forward Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench apologizes for antisemitic comment

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