Out and About: Painting Jerusalem; Roseanne Barr for President?

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
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Roseanne Barr announced on the Tonight Show that she was running for president.
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Sarah Lazarovic illustrates her family trips to out-of-the-way shuls.
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Jenna Weissman Joselit reviews Michael Levy’s “Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion.”
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Richard McBee takes a look at paintings depicting the destruction of Jerusalem.
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Along with Jack White and Norah Jones, Bob Dylan is recording an album of lost Hank Williams songs.
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Jeffrey Shandler writes about the Jewish relationship to opera for the Milken Archive.
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The Washington Post covers the controversies at JCCs over Israel-related programming. Read the Forward’s take on the subject here.
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One woman’s search for the real Garden of Eden.
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Ashdod’s Shalom Israel dance company was expelled from the Utah Dance Festival after reports of inappropriate behavior.
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Israeli radio personality Adi Talmor has died at age 58.
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