Out and About

?Footnote? director Joseph Cedar. Image by Getty Images
-
Rabbi Norman Lamm’s new book on Purim gets a glowing review.
-
HEEB talks to “Footnote” director Joseph Cedar.
-
On the Yiddish Song of the Week blog, listen to “Hayda-liu-liu” performed by the linguist Mordkhe Schaechter.
-
Daniel Treiman identifies ‘the greatest tangent in movie reviewing’ in a piece by former New York City mayor Ed Koch.
-
Woody Allen’s “Bullets Over Broadway” is heading to Broadway.
-
Michael Stuhlbarg talks about “Hugo” and the upcoming season of “Boardwalk Empire.”
-
Zackary Sholem Berger reflects on the great Yiddish literary journal, Di Goldene Keyt.
-
The earliest known Ladino-language memoir is translated and back in print.
-
Watch a new music video by The Arty Semite contributor Max Elstein Keisler: