Out and About: Tel Aviv Dance, Jason Alexander at UCLA

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky

By Ezra Glinter October 4, 2010

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• Meet Avi Yitzhak, Israel’s first Ethiopian fashion designer.

• Jewish Fiction .net, “the first English-language journal devoted exclusively to the publishing of Jewish fiction,” has launched.

• Roberto Rodriguez and Abraham Inc. are among several Jewish-y acts included in the Village Voice’s Jazz Consumer Guide.

• The fourth annual Tel Aviv Dance festival opens today, bringing 12 international dance troupes to Israel throughout October.

• Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine has returned to the podium following back surgery, starting off the season with an all-Wagner program.

• “Robert Lifton: The Nazi Doctors,” opens this week at New York’s Film Forum.

• “Bonnie and Clyde” director Arthur Penn has died.

• Jason Alexander is starring in “They’re Playing Our Song” at UCLA.

• And Bob Cohen, profiled last week on The Arty Semite, writes about his trip to New York with Técsői Banda.