Out and About
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Vivian Gornick celebrates Emma Goldman’s revolutionary individualism.
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Leonard Cohen accepts the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters with one of the most moving acceptance speeches of all time.
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Israeli boxer Ilya Grad has become the first Israeli to enter Malaysia, in order to participate in a reality TV show about boxing.
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Nahma Sandrow watches Yiddish films at the Medias Central European Film Festival.
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In the new issue of the LABA Journal, Ruby Namdar writers about our attempts to make a name for ourselves, Stephen Arnoff writers about Patti Smith and Elissa Strauss writes about the tchotchkes on her desk.
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The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is set to produce a play about a German chancellor who invites six million Jews back to live in Germany.
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Hungarians rallied against the appointment of far-rightists Gyorgy Dorner and Istvan Csurka to head Budapest’s New Theatre.
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