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Short Stories, Live

Schreiber to peform Safran Foer, Keret

By the Editors|March 22, 2011 2:30 PM|1comment

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Liev Schreiber (whose first name is Isaac—who knew?).(Wikipedia)

Tablet Magazine is a proud sponsor of the latest installment in Symphony Space’s “Selected Shorts” series. At the Upper West Side locale, actor Liev Schreiber and others will perform stories by Jonathan Safran Foer and columnist Etgar Keret.

The event (details here) is April 6 at 7 pm. Hope to see you there!

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For several years I produced a “Readers Theater” that was modeled on the “Selected Shorts” series at the Symphony Space. It was a wonderful program and turned me into an avid reader and appreciator of short stories. If you can attend, GO!

The Napkin Artist

Remembering Yiddishist, linguistics scholar, Holocaust survivor, and painter Edward Stankiewicz, who died this year

By Frances Brent

Hannah Arendt, Guilty Pleasure

By J. Hoberman — Thrill to the Jewish Philosopher Queen as she does battle with boring Nazis, The New Yorker, and Mossad

A Growing Fear in France

By Clémence Boulouque — As political and financial crises deepen in Western Europe, French Jewry is facing a familiar test

John Kerry’s Silly Play

By Lee Smith — The secretary of state prattles about imaginary treaties while the Arab world is engulfed by a Sunni-Shia civil war

Happy Birthday, Mr. Kissinger

By Gil Troy — The influential former secretary of state—courtier, careerist, proud American, conflicted Jew—turns 90

Dumb and Dumber

By David P. Goldman — How neocons and Obama liberals have created catastrophe by consensus in the Middle East