This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Image by Gadi Dagon
By Ezra Glinter October 1, 2010
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Gavriel Rosenfeld notes the textual inspiration for the new synagogue in Mainz.
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Nathan Burstein takes a look at “Nuremberg,” a documentary finally getting its American premiere after 62 years.
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Susie Linfield goes to see the current performance by Israel’s Batsheva dance company.
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In Eli Valley’s latest comic, the Jewish community finds salvation in an unlikely source. Valley also joins Forward staff writers Josh Nathan-Kazis and Nathan Guttman in this week’s Reporters’ Roundtable podcast.
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Philologos wonders what it means to be made in the image of God.
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Uzi Silber samples the millennia-old relationship between Jews and booze.
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The second of three excerpts from Forward staff writer Gal Beckerman’s new book “When They Come For Us We’ll be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry,” chronicles the courage of Refuseniks such as Volodya and Masha Slepak, Ida Nudel, and Anatoly Shcharansky.
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And the Forward-sponsored exhibit “Graphic Details: Confessional Comics by Jewish Women,” opens today at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.
