Out and About
By Ezra Glinter January 26, 2012
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In Brooklyn, Crown Heights is the new Williamsburg.
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Steven Spielberg may direct a Moses biopic called “Gods and Kings.”
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The Village Voice’s Jen Doll publishes her lost interview with “Goosebumps” author R.L. Stine.
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George Robinson profiles cellist Maya Baiser and her love of tango for the Jewish Week. Read my profile of Beiser from 2010 here.
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Listen to Leonard Cohen’s new album, “Old Ideas,” in its entirety.
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Medieval Jewish scrolls from Afghanistan are causing a furor among the scholarly.
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Bridget Kevane profiles Vanessa Hidary, aka the “Hebrew Mamita,” for Tablet. Read Hidary’s Q&A with The Arty Semite here.
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Jason Diamond profiles Nathan Englander for Capital New York.
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Howard Jacobson on Holocaust remembrance: “Little by little, week by week, in country after country, the rights of Jews to remember their recent past with outrage are being whittled away.”
