By Ezra Glinter February 24, 2011

• How one of the most popular Jewish books of the modern era explained everything from Kabbalah to cosmology, astronomy, geography, botany, zoology and medicine.

• Novelist David Bezmozgis and filmmaker Richard J. Lewis exchange letters on “Barney’s Version.”

• Will Justin Timberlake star in the upcoming Three Stooges movie?

  

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• A film about Europe’s largest Jewish cemetery and two Israeli movies were honored at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.

• Paintings of Rahm Emanuel, covered with pancakes, bagels, challah, and other assorted foodstuffs.

• Does the Jewlicious Festival, which kicks off today in Long Beach and Los Angeles, have enough female artists?

• Christopher Hitchens explains how “The King’s Speech” glosses over British appeasement of Nazi Germany.

• Argentine-born film composer Lalo Schifrin discusses his life’s work.

• A Russian re-write of “The Lord of the Rings” from the point of view of Mordor has been translated into English by one Yisroel Markov.

• A Brooklyn photographer visits Oswiecim.

Correction: A previous version of the post erroneously stated that composer Lalo Schifrin had died. He is in fact alive and well.

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