The dispute between Chabad-Lubavitch and Russia over the Schneerson library is gumming up the works for major art exhibits. Hundred of Wikipedia contributors are descending on Haifa today for the seventh annual Wikimania conference. At the Paris Review, Sadie Stein writes about her grandfather, Joseph Stein, who wrote the screenplay for “Fiddler on the Roof.”…
Harold Bloom explains why Jonah is his favorite book of the Bible. A new exhibit in Philadelphia brings to light Rembrandt’s Jewish Jesus. A posthumous Amy Winehouse album is in the works. Officials at the Israeli embassy in Athens were dispatched to see a Roger Waters show and to look for anti-Semitic content. Woody Allen…
Maurice Sendak has written and illustrated his first children’s book in 30 years, titled “Bumble-Ardy.” A new social networking site is based in the Proust Questionnaire. Joel Schalit evaluates Berlin’s susceptibility to an Oslo-type attack. Justin Bartha, who is currently starring in Zach Braff’s play “All New People,” will next appear in Jesse Eisenberg’s “Asuncion”…
Former Forward staffer Seth Mnookin chronicles the trials and triumphs of the New York Times. An archeological excavation of the ancient Israelite city of Shechem is taking place under the auspices of the Palestinan Department of Antiquities. Bob Dylan’s grandson Pablo has launched a rap career, describing his grandfather as the “the Jay-Z of his…
Paris art dealer and racehorse breeder Guy Wildenstein faces up to seven years in prison for harboring missing artworks. Should the Israeli government intervene in the country’s bookselling business? Nahma Sandrow and Arthur S. Leonard weigh in on Joseph Dorman’s documentary, “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness.” Jacob Silverman, Leil Leibovitz and Mike Reddy wonder…
Jo Ellen Green Kaiser ponders the death of JDub and the future of new Jewish media, if there is one. How William L. Shirer, author of “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” was a better journalist than historian. Jerusalem celebrates a Woodstock revival. Jerry Seinfeld has joined Twitter. Today is the 17th anniversary of…
Bollywood filmmakers are visiting Israel to make connections and scout locations during the Jerusalem International Film Festival. Prolific and influential graphic designer and Vanity Fair caricaturist Paolo Garretto was once a member of Mussolini’s bodyguards. A collection of Jewish Iraqi books discovered in a basement used by Saddam Hussein’s secret police and recovered during the…
Bob Marley’s son, Ziggy Marley, talks about his connection to Jewish culture and his new comic book, “Marijuanaman.” According to its makers, the video game “El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron” (covered on The Arty Semite here) is going to be controversial among American gamers, but more because of its graphics than because of its…
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