Out and About

Vivian Gornick celebrates Emma Goldman’s revolutionary individualism.

Leonard Cohen accepts the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters with one of the most moving acceptance speeches of all time.

Israeli boxer Ilya Grad has become the first Israeli to enter Malaysia, in order to participate in a reality TV show about boxing.

Nahma Sandrow watches Yiddish films at the Medias Central European Film Festival.

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.

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.

Hungarians rallied against the appointment of far-rightists Gyorgy Dorner and Istvan Csurka to head Budapest’s New Theatre.