Out and About
Image by Rebecca Smyne
By Ezra Glinter December 29, 2011
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An enormous cinema complex is being planned for the port of Tel Aviv.
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Daniel Retter, an immigration attorney from the Bronx, has written the first index to the Talmud.
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Music students at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance are working to restore lost Jewish compositions.
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Apparently, the beardless Matisyahu is still generating controversy thanks to a run-in with a photographer at one of his shows.
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Palestinian director Susan Youssef has won the Best Film of Muhr Arab Feature award at the Dubai International Film Festival for her Gaza-based movie, “Habibi.”
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Jonathan Ames reflects on his housekeeping habits.
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Don Blanquito, one of the most popular funk musicians in Brazil, is a Jewish kid from L.A. named Alex Cutler.
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Abstract painter Helen Frankenthaler has died at age 83.
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