This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
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Benjamin Ivry examines the work of misunderstood painter Philip Guston.
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Philologos investigates Sarah Palin’s use of the term “blood libel.”
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Jenna Weissman Joselit looks at the love affair between Jews and statistics.
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The Forward interviews Joan Rosenbaum, departing director of the Jewish Museum.
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Eve Grubin reads the spiritual poetry of Yehoshua November.
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Scott D. Seligman looks back to 1903, when New York’s Chinese community held a fundraiser for victims of the Kishinev pogrom.
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And on the Forverts video channel Paul Glasser reads from “A Yom Kippur Scandal” by Sholom Aleichem:
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