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

Roseanne Barr announced on the Tonight Show that she was running for president.

Sarah Lazarovic illustrates her family trips to out-of-the-way shuls.

Jenna Weissman Joselit reviews Michael Levy’s “Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion.”

Richard McBee takes a look at paintings depicting the destruction of Jerusalem.

Along with Jack White and Norah Jones, Bob Dylan is recording an album of lost Hank Williams songs.

Jeffrey Shandler writes about the Jewish relationship to opera for the Milken Archive.

The Washington Post covers the controversies at JCCs over Israel-related programming. Read the Forward’s take on the subject here.

One woman’s search for the real Garden of Eden.

Ashdod’s Shalom Israel dance company was expelled from the Utah Dance Festival after reports of inappropriate behavior.

Israeli radio personality Adi Talmor has died at age 58.