Out and About
By Ezra Glinter January 30, 2012
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The Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics is giving its Golden Pencil award to “Dry Bones” creator Yaakov Kirschen.
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Forward contributor Robert Zaretsky writes for The New York Times about Paris, as seen through Hollywood’s lens.
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The Times profiles Yiddish vaudevillian Shane Baker. Read the Forward’s profile of Baker from 2010 here.
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Keven Shea Adams takes pictures of an abandoned 1920s theater hidden above an East Village bodega.
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Rachel Shteir appreciates Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary, “Crazy Horse,” and its depiction of the female rear end.
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Germany has used copyright laws to block the republication of “Mein Kampf.”
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Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell’s painting “The Wall of the Temple” has been returned to its home at Congregation B’nai Israel in Millburn, N.J.
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Kazimierz Smolen, director of the Auschwitz memorial site, has died at 91.
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What can you do with a degree in Jewish Cultural Arts? This video will explain it to you:
