Out and About

?Footnote? director Joseph Cedar. Image by Getty Images
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Rabbi Norman Lamm’s new book on Purim gets a glowing review.
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HEEB talks to “Footnote” director Joseph Cedar.
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On the Yiddish Song of the Week blog, listen to “Hayda-liu-liu” performed by the linguist Mordkhe Schaechter.
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Daniel Treiman identifies ‘the greatest tangent in movie reviewing’ in a piece by former New York City mayor Ed Koch.
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Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” is heading to Broadway.
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Michael Stuhlbarg talks about “Hugo” and the upcoming season of “Boardwalk Empire.”
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Zackary Sholem Berger reflects on the great Yiddish literary journal, Di Goldene Keyt.
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The earliest known Ladino-language memoir is translated and back in print.
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Watch a new music video by The Arty Semite contributor Max Elstein Keisler:
"Why I became the Forward’s Editor-in-Chief"
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief.
And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over. We urgently need the Forward’s courageous, unflinching journalism — not only as a source of reliable information, but to provide inspiration, healing and hope.
