The British Mandate-era bar Casino de Paris has reopened in Jerusalem. Take a look at one of the most Jewish Bob Dylan photos ever. “The Jazz Singer” returns to New York City. Egypt cancelled new age 11/11/11 celebrations at the Pyramids out of fear that the Jews might return to claim them. The Jewish Theatre…
Producer Brian Grazer will replace Brett Ratner at this year’s Oscars. Variety takes a look at Caroline Hirsch, the grande dame of New York comedy. Jed Perl has some nice things to say about the exhibit of Islamic art at the Met. Steven Spielberg’s name has been blacked out of Tintin posters in Beirut. Roger…
Robert Deniro might play Bernard Madoff in a possibly forthcoming HBO film. Another soon-to-be-completed movie tells the story of Yoni Netanyahu, who was killed during the Entebbe Operation in 1976. NPR looks at “The Radical Camera” exhibit at The Jewish Museum. WNYC listens to the Forward’s first-ever radio show, which was on… WNYC! Jenna Weissman…
A posthumous Amy Winehouse album is set to be released in December. The British music label EMI is being sold to Russian-born billionaire Len Blavatnik. For the 125th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty, Nextbook Press has created an interactive version of Emma Lazarus’s poem, “The New Colossus.” Nathaniel Rabkin takes a…
An HBO film directed by Oliver Stone and about New York City “master builder” Robert Moses is in the works. David P. Goldman explains what makes Don Giovanni a Jewish opera. The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis gave its 2011 award for best stage production to Mark St. Germain’s “Freud’s Last Session.” Read…
Vivian Gornick celebrates Emma Goldman’s revolutionary individualism. Leonard Cohen accepts the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters with one of the most moving acceptance speeches of all time. Israeli boxer Ilya Grad has become the first Israeli to enter Malaysia, in order to participate in a reality TV show about boxing. Nahma Sandrow watches Yiddish…
Gareth Unwin, producer of “The King’s Speech,” is hoping to increase cooperation between the British and Israeli film industries. A dispute has arisen over the sale of Norman Mailer’s Brooklyn Heights apartment due to custom renovations performed by the late author. A new project is afoot to digitize the Cairo Geniza. The Jewish Museum in…
Marc Chagall and his contemporaries get a reappraisal at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Max Elstein Keisler thinks about Y-Love and Aramaic hip-hop. Ayelet Dekel talks to filmmaker Julia Loktev at the Haifa Film Festival. An exhibit at New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World brings to life the Jews, Christians…
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