This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
By Ezra Glinter July 2, 2010
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Eli Valley sends Stuart the Jewish Turtle to Johannesburg to stop Judge Goldstone from attending his grandson’s bar mitzvah.
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Paul Berger yuks it up with Russian Jewish comedians in New York.
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Jerome E. Copulsky reviews “The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness” by Oren Harman.
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Judah S. Harris visits the Jewish Culture Festival in Charleston, S.C.
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Benjamin Ivry reflects on literary critic Harold Bloom as he enters his ninth decade.
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Jay Michaelson wonders whether the values of peoplehood and Israel aren’t on a natural collision course.
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And Philologos communes with God/G-d/god, gosh darn it.
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