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.
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Jewish Fiction .net, “the first English-language journal devoted exclusively to the publishing of Jewish fiction,” has launched.
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Roberto Rodriguez and Abraham Inc. are among several Jewish-y acts included in the Village Voice’s Jazz Consumer Guide.
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The fourth annual Tel Aviv Dance festival opens today, bringing 12 international dance troupes to Israel throughout October.
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Boston Symphony Orchestra conductor James Levine has returned to the podium following back surgery, starting off the season with an all-Wagner program.
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“Robert Lifton: The Nazi Doctors,” opens this week at New York’s Film Forum.
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“Bonnie and Clyde” director Arthur Penn has died.
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Jason Alexander is starring in “They’re Playing Our Song” at UCLA.
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And Bob Cohen, profiled last week on The Arty Semite, writes about his trip to New York with Técsői Banda.
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