Out and About

Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
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Meet Julius Schmidt, America’s first condom tycoon.
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The Jewish Star profiles Footsteps, an organization that helps people leaving the ultra-Orthodox community.
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Joseph Herscher is the Rube Goldberg of Brooklyn.
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Read “The Hobbit,” in Hebrew.
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The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s exhibit from the collection of Leo and Gertrude Stein is [coming to New York] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/An-Eye-for-Genius-The-Collections-of-Gertrude-and-Leo-Stein.html?c=y&story=fullstory) this winter.
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Photojournalist Eve Arnold and silent film writer Frederica Sagor Maas have died.
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