Out and About
Image by Andrea Strongwater
By Ezra Glinter January 16, 2012
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David Mamet is looking for a Hebrew teacher.
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Leonard Cohen talks about romance, poetry, suicide, music, Sergio Leone and cigarettes in a 1988 BBC interview.
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On Conan O’Brien, David Cross called a producer of “Alvin and the Chipmunks” “the personification of what people think about when they think negatively about Jews.”
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Andrea Strongwater paints the lost synagogues of Europe.
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Ron Capshaw spells out Arthur Miller’s real Communist ties, including his Marxist theater criticism under the pseudonym “Matt Wayne.”
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Daniella Cheslow profiles Mendy Cahan, one of the erstwhile Israeli Yiddishists. It’s one of the better such pieces, but anyone who wants to write something about Yiddish, especially for a Jewish publication, should probably read this first.
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Claire Wagner Kosterlitz, Bauhaus artist and eventual receptionist in Irvington, N.J., gets an exhibit at the Jewish Museum of New Jersey.
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Fashion blogger Mordechai Rubinstein, aka “Mr. Mort,” gets profiled by the Times.
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Has Mishpacha magazine been banned?
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