This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
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Eric A. Goldman shares his discovery of the classic Canadian film “Lies My Father Told Me.”
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Katherine Preston looks at the similarities between “The King’s Speech” and “Going With the Flow,” a short documentary about speech therapy.
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Debra Nussbam Cohen praises the accomplishments of Jewish feminist Judith Plaskow.
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Philologos gets out his trunk.
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Jeremiah Lockwood looks back at a year of the Nigun Project.
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Todd Hasak-Lowy digs Israeli Beat writer Yoram Kaniuk.
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Lisa Traiger unravels the controversy surrounding Theater J’s Voices from a Changing Middle East festival (read our review of the festival’s production of “Return to Haifa” here).
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In a new podcast Jon Kalish talks to the Hasidic drop-outs behind “Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish” (read more about the film here and here).
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