The latest issue of the Laba Journal is out: “The Laba Guide to Noah’s Ark.” Muslim silversmith Kamai Rubaih is helping to preserve the art of Yemeni Jewish silver jewelry. Shane Baker tries to give away “A Biographical Dictionary of Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union.” Catholics in Paris protested against a so-called “blasphemous” play….
Dozens of Israeli artists, intellectuals, academics and former military officials are asking Prime Minister Netanyahu to freeze the country’s wave of anti-democratic legislation. NPR’s “On the Media” talks to author Susan Daitch about her novel “Paper Conspiracies” and the Dreyfus Affair. Stanley Kauffmann reviews “Paul Goodman Changed My Life.” (Read The Arty Semite’s review here…
The Beastie Boys are being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Tablet features a work-in-progress graphic novel about the roots of hip-hop. GQ features an illustrated account of the raid on Osama bin Laden. The latest edition of Jewish Fiction.net is out, featuring stories by S.Y. Agnon, George Jonas and Lea Kaminsky….
The world’s oldest Holocaust museum, in London, is moving to a new home. Nicolas Cage showed up at a Chabad fundraiser in Alaska. Tablet magazine ranks the top 100 Jewish films. Shulem Deen contemplates whether a Native American chant at a Rainbow Gathering can replace the Hasidic gatherings of his youth. Philip Glass joined an…
Listen to Itzik Manger read his poem, “A Tree That Stands.” Artist Jacqueline Nicholls and Forward artist-in-residence Eli Valley talk to Jason Solomons about Occupy Wall Street and the Israeli tent protests for the Guardian’s “Sounds Jewish” podcast. John Berger talks to The Paris Review about reimagining Spinoza’s sketchbook. William Deresiewicz writes about being an…
The Times photographs Brooklyn’s Russian ballet. Liana Finck gives a graphic take on the Forward-sponsored Graphic Details exhibition. The Ben Uri Gallery in London is showing the once-missing works of painter Josef Herman. The New York Times profiles the Jewish trans-band Schmekel. Read Eddy Portnoy’s piece for the Forward here. Forward contributor Joshua Furst is…
Hipster Jew does The Big Lebowski, Sesame Street style. The Jewish Week gives its first Excellence in Journalism Award to photojournalist Ruth Gruber. Twelve tracks recorded by Amy Winehouse are being held in the Island Records vault, and the record label intends to keep them there. Jonathan Lethem talks to Laura Miller about the literary…
The infamous Jewish secret agent Oy-Oy 7 has returned, and Andrew Silow-Carroll is celebrating. In preparation for Thanksgiving, William Shatner warns about the dangers of exploding turkeys. Nineteen-year-old Jewish rapper Mac Miller has reached #1 on the Billboard charts with his independently produced album, “Blue Slide Park.” Take a gander at Leonard Cohen’s gun collection….
100% of profits support our journalism
