This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter February 14, 2011
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Jordana Horn goes to see “Wandering Eyes,” a film about Israeli bi-polar rock star Gavriel Balachsan, at the Reelabilities Film Festival (read more coverage of the festival here).
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Jay Michaelson argues that being gay and Orthodox is not an oxymoron.
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Philologos argues that being a rhinoceros and a faynshmeker is an oxymoron.
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A.J. Goldmann goes to see the forgotten artworks of Expressionist poet Else Lasker-Schüler.
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And in the latest Yid Lit podcast, Allison Gaudet Yarrow talks to writer and humorist Sloane Crosley.
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