Out and About: Adam Sandler Becomes a Valet; Alfred Kazin in His Journals
By Ezra Glinter December 13, 2010
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Is Adam Sandler’s next movie going to be about parking cars?
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Russian Jewish oligarch Roman Abramovich needs an entire island to house his art collection.
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Read an exerpt of Alfred Kazin’s journals, to be published this spring by Yale University Press.
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Michael Chabon has been elected director of The MacDowell Colony.
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How enigmatic Israeli music icon Ofra Haza became a breakout hit on British pirate radio.
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Czech Jewish writer Heda Kovaly and English Jewish graphic artist Doris Seidler have died.
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Read “Jerusalem Stone” by Sherri Mandell, winner of the Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation short fiction contest.
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New Yorker film editor Richard Brody on the portrayal of Poland in Claude Lanzmann’s “Shoah.”
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Is Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” a play about Israel?
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Among the casualties of the Carmel fire are 15,000 rare books.
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At least seven different musical traditions converge at the Jerusalem Oud Festival.
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