Out and About: Brooklyn’s Shofar Master; Frank Miller’s Revenge
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Ezra Glinter October 3, 2011
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Thousands of Jerusalem’s “pashkevilim” are going online.
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Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel is a revenge fantasy against Muslims.
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The Statue of Liberty turned 25.
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Joseph Berger profiles Borough Park’s shofar master.
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Paul Simon was inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Forward arts and culture editor Dan Friedman introduces British readers to “The Wire.”
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Nathan Englander’s “The Reader” gets animated.
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The National Jewish Theater Foundation has received a $60,000 grant to help create a Holocaust theater archive.
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Jewish British poet Emanuel Litivinoff has died at age 96.
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