Out and About: Jewish Hong Kong; Festivus in Orange County
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter December 20, 2010
- The Arty Semite contributor Christopher DeWolf profiles Hong Kong’s Rabbi Asher Oser and looks at the city’s Jewish history.
- The Jewish Chronicle talks to actor Elliott Gould.
- VICE Magazine talks to author Sam Lipsyte.
- “Lipstikka,” an already-controversial film by Israeli director Jonathan Sagall, will premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February.
- Anselm Kiefer’s latest exhibit carries a special message for Jews.
- Reading Paul Goodman, “a cantankerous Jewish intellectual of the New Left.”
- Remembering Polish-born French Jewish filmmaker and film theorist Jean Epstein.
- A prisoner in Orange County has managed to get kosher meals on the basis of Festivus observance.
- Shemspeed gives us the 10 best beatboxers of all time.
- And comedian Mendy “king of beards” Pellin does his thing, too:
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