The Schmooze

Out and About: Jewish Hong Kong; Festivus in Orange County

Jean Epstein Image by Wiki Commons

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:

Ezra Glinter is the critic-at-large of the Forward.

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