for Friday, August 25, 2023

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Helen Mirren’s Golda is golden — but the film merely glitters

PJ Grisar in Forward

"Golda," featuring Helen Mirren as Golda Meir, focuses on Meir's leadership during the Yom Kippur War, portraying her complex emotions and decision-making under pressure.

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Heads hail GCSE successes at Jewish schools

Jewish Chronicle

Several Jewish schools have excelled in this year's GCSE exams, with Immanuel College achieving three times the national average for top grades and JFS seeing 55% of grades at 7 or above.

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August 25's Short Reads

Tablet The Night They Drove Oliver Anthony Down

Tablet Soul Candles

Moment From the Newsletter | Kohenet’s Final Ordination of Hebrew Priestesses

Forward After 547 days of war, I am ready to leave Ukraine again — this time, with sadness

Forward Conservative movement’s ban on rabbis officiating at interfaith weddings will stand

Forward Helen Mirren’s Golda is golden — but the film merely glitters

Kveller Serena Williams Gave Her Daughter the Perfect Hebrew Name

Forward I feel so disconnected from Jewish life. Help me find the right community

Emes Ve-Emunah A Common Sense Approach to Issues of Modesty

Moment WATCH | New Holocaust Museum Opens—In a Video Game

Future of Jewish Israel's secret attack on Syria, Jewish resistance hero identified, and more!

Jewish Currents “To Hell with This Depressing Atmosphere” - Three comics from <em>Tits & Clits</em>, the most risqué of the second wave’s underground women’s anthologies

Forward Jared Armstrong, basketball player who fought for Israeli citizenship, is now working to promote Black-Jewish relations

Kveller Jewish Baby Names That Start With the Letter ‘T’

Forward GOP debate tackles Israel and Soros + Jewish ghosts emerge from Bronx's past

eJewishPhilanthropy Leadership and favoritism: Thoughts on Parshat Ki Teitzei

eJewishPhilanthropy Exploring camp from a different perspective

Forward Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy spar over aid to Israel at first GOP debate

Rationalist Judaism Angry Birds

Moment From 2007 | Lost in India

Forward Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian warlord presumed dead in plane crash, was of Jewish descent

Tablet The War Comes to Odessa

Tablet ‘When I Found Authentic Torah, It Was Like Electricity’

Tablet Among the Protesters

Jewish Insider Hawaii Gov. Josh Green faces his biggest test

Lehrhaus The Mashiach Card

Forward They're students at a Black, Catholic college — and they won a national prize for antisemitism education

The Beinart Notebook Terrell Starr on Reporting in Ukraine and Israel-Palestine

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