Out and About: Midrash and the Megillah; Einstein’s Archives Unleashed
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How Yiddish poet Itzik Manger brought midrash to the Megillah.
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Bob Dylan, Brandeis University, 1963: Coming soon to a record store near you.
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In other Dylanalia, Bob’s upcoming Asian tour now includes stops in both China and Vietnam.
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David Kaufmann on new poetry by Adrienne Rich.
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The Hebrew University is putting Albert Einstein’s archives on the Internet.
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Have bar mitvah YouTube videos gone too far?
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How to write a Purim Shpil.
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“Imagining Madoff” will open Theater J’s 2011/2012 season.
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Lou Reed’s manager is being investigated by police for allegedly threatening to send Israeli hitmen after a “headhunter for the stars.”
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Influential art historian Leo Steinberg has died.
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