Out and About: Rembrandt’s Jesus; New Amy Winehouse Album?
Rembrandt Harmenzoon Van Rijn, ?Portrait of Christ,? c. 1655-57. Courtesy of The Hyde Collection.
By Ezra Glinter August 1, 2011
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Harold Bloom explains why Jonah is his favorite book of the Bible.
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A new exhibit in Philadelphia brings to light Rembrandt’s Jewish Jesus.
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A posthumous Amy Winehouse album is in the works.
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Officials at the Israeli embassy in Athens were dispatched to see a Roger Waters show and to look for anti-Semitic content.
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Woody Allen will open up for a PBS documentary in November titled “Seriously Funny: The Comic Art of Woody Allen.”
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Indian film critics have panned a Bollywood film about the Third Reich titled “From Gandhi to Hitler” — which is at least an improvement on its original title, “Dear Friend Hitler.”
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Montreal’s Jewish public library is getting a new executive director.
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Time magazine catches up with Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc and his current exhibit, “Last Folio: A Photographic Journey.” Read Forward Arts & Culture editor Dan Friedman’s profile of Dojc from November, 2010 here.
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Israel’s latest wunder conductor also writes, paints, and reads seven books a week.
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Jewlicious wonders whether circuses are kosher.
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Two new novels by Irmgard Keun, one of Nazi Germany’s most prominent female novelists, have been translated into English.
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Artist, caricaturist and illustrator Sam Norkin has died at age 94.
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