Out and About: Alice Walker Sails For Gaza; Woody Allen Heads For Rome

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky

By Ezra Glinter June 23, 2011

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• Novelist Alice Walker explains why she is sailing to Gaza.

• The New York Times profiles Idan Raichel, Israel’s “musician of the decade.”

• JWeekly profiles the Ridin’ Chai Motorcycle Club of Northern California.

• In Souciant, The Arty Semite contributor Joel Schalit writes about Public Enemy in Arabic.

• In Tablet, The Arty Semite contributor Shulem Deen writes about his journey from Hasid to Hipster Brooklyn.

• Woody Allen has announced that his next film, “The Bop Decameron,” will be set in Rome and will star Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg and Ellen Page.

• Remember that labor mural in Maine? Governer Paul LePage has apparently been receiving thousands of angry e-mail over his decision to remove it.

• The mystery of a rare World War II photo album is solved

• The new issue of Jewish Fiction .net is out.

• The new issue of Country Yossi Family Magazine is also out.