This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
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By Ezra Glinter October 22, 2010
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Leah Koenig looks into the proliferation of kosher certification in America.
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Curt Schleier and Gordon Haber ponder “God in America,” a six-hour PBS documentary that debunks the myth that the Founding Fathers were evangelicals.
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Steven G. Kellman goes poking around in Nicole Krauss’s “Great House.”
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Philologos wonders if swearing loyalty to a “Jewish and democratic state” really means anything, anyway.
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Benjamin Ivry profiles Israeli composer Chaya Czernowin, whose works are receiving greater and greater acclaim.
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Zohar Tirosh-Polk reviews “The Human Scale,” a new play by The New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright (previously interviewed on The Arty Semite here) about his experience reporting from Gaza.
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And this week on the Forverts video channel Boris Sandler talks to Yiddish actor Rafael Goldwaser about his play “The Metamorphosis of a Melody” (Previously reviewed on The Arty Semite here) which returns to New York on November 11:
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