This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
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By Ezra Glinter December 24, 2010
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Matthew Sharpe finds the future of the Middle East in Alan Dershowitz’s “The Trials of Zion.”
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Jerome A. Chanes writes about writing about writing about the Holocaust.
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Mordechai Shinefield isn’t a woman, but he likes listening to them sing.
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Philologos sneaks across the border.
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Laurence Klavan appreciates some underappreciated plays.
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Alon Rab watches the resurrection of a beloved Israeli children’s series on television.
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David Stern ponders the future of the Valmadonna, one of the world’s great Judaica collections.
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And on the Forverts video channel, the second installment of an interview with Yiddish actress Shifre Lerer, on the occasion of her 95th birthday:
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