Drowning out hate, modest hotels, and biblical blueprints
| 5:00 PM Jul 2, 2009
• Stephan Kuhn, a member of Germany’s Green Party, was arrested in Dresden for blasting klezmer music outside City Hall, drowning out a neo-Nazi meeting. We’re not sure if this is a special rule for politicians, but his $210 fine went to a charity for victims of right-wing violence. [JTA]
• In other Green Party news, ...
Fiction echoes the nightly news
| 12:12 PM Sep 13, 2005
The levees had not yet been breached when I met the angel Adiel, who’s given the task of reporting the destruction of the world in a novel by the late Shlomo DuNour. Having ordered the book through interlibrary loan, I never imagined this Biblical imagining would arrive in time to be illustrated by CNN.
Adiel, translated ...
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Wallace Shawn on being Jewish—onscreen and off
William Kentridge and the art of righting history’s wrongs
At 50, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Beth Sholom synagogue still glimmers—leaks and all
While trying on new artistic hat, artist develops series of paper coats
How Russian-Jewish émigrés are changing the face of competitive ballroom dance
How a latter-day vaudevillian from Kansas City got himself to speak perfect Yiddish
As it progressed, the playwright’s autobiographical trilogy grew more dark—and more true
