Out and About: Adam Sandler Becomes a Valet; Alfred Kazin in His Journals

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky

By Ezra Glinter December 13, 2010

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• Is Adam Sandler’s next movie going to be about parking cars?

• Russian Jewish oligarch Roman Abramovich needs an entire island to house his art collection.

• Read an exerpt of Alfred Kazin’s journals, to be published this spring by Yale University Press.

• Michael Chabon has been elected director of The MacDowell Colony.

• How enigmatic Israeli music icon Ofra Haza became a breakout hit on British pirate radio.

• Czech Jewish writer Heda Kovaly and English Jewish graphic artist Doris Seidler have died.

• Read “Jerusalem Stone” by Sherri Mandell, winner of the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation short fiction contest.

• New Yorker film editor Richard Brody on the portrayal of Poland in Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah.”

• Is Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” a play about Israel?

• Among the casualties of the Carmel fire are 15,000 rare books.

• At least seven different musical traditions converge at the Jerusalem Oud Festival.