Out and About: Comics for Passover; Jeff Goldblum and His Jazz Orchestra
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter April 18, 2011
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Vanessa Davis illustrates Passover’s seeming absurdities.
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Sarah Lazarovic illustrates her Passover Seder with her converted huband, Benjamin Errett.
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Jeff Goldblum wows Coachella festival with his jazz orchestra.
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The Arty Semite contributor Jenny Hendrix takes on the gender-neutered Bible for The New Yorker.
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The Detroit Metro Times profiles Jewish Music blogger Jack Zaientz.
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How Polish-born Stephanie Rosenthal became a bestselling feminist author in China in the 1920s.
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How Prussian-born Julius Meyer became an honory Sioux and an interpreter of Native American languages for congress.
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Toronto’s Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company has taken up a new residence at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, where it will present the world premiere of Hannah Mosocovitch’s “The Children’s Republic.”
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Israeli opera singers serenade mid-day traffic in Jerusalem.
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Edward Ullendorff, an expert on Semitic languages and translator of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie’s autobiography (among many other accomplishments) has died.
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