Out and About

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
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The world’s oldest Holocaust museum, in London, is moving to a new home.
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Nicolas Cage showed up at a Chabad fundraiser in Alaska.
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Tablet magazine ranks the top 100 Jewish films.
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Shulem Deen contemplates whether a Native American chant at a Rainbow Gathering can replace the Hasidic gatherings of his youth.
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Philip Glass joined an Occupy Wall Street protest at Lincoln Center, following a performance of his opera “Satyagraha.”
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Another artist — a painter — gives her take on OWS.
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CNN profiles Mad magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee.
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The Los Angeles Times takes a look inside the Oscar foreign language category race.
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Check out the best and worst from Art Basel Miami Beach.
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“The Lady from Tel Aviv,” an Arabic novel by British-Palestinian writer Rabai Al-Madhoun, has won a supporting award from English PEN Writers in Translation.
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Australian Bram Presser’s story about his grandfather’s shtetl won the Age newspaper’s short story contest.
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Germany is set to double its funding to the country’s Jewish community, to total $13.4 million per year.
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— Joel Brown, Forward board chair
