Out and About: Ashkelon’s Adult Archeology Camp; Leonard Nimoy Lives Long and Prospers
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By Ezra Glinter March 28, 2011
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Jewcy reviews the work of Bonnie Lucas, “another artist toiling forever as art teacher with a mature body of thirty years work in her fifth floor walk-up.”
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What better place than Israel for an adult archeology camp?
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But are Jewish studies on decline in the country’s universities?
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Talmud study is catching on in South Korea.
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Happy 80th birthday, Leonard Nimoy!
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A replica of the 17th-century Gwozdziec wooden synagogue is being built as part of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews, currently under construction in Warsaw.
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Hannah Munitz, General Director of the Israeli Opera, has received the title of Commendatore in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, the country’s highest ranking honor.
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The Anne Frank Museum might be moving in next door to the Park 51 mosque.
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“Bumble-Ardy,” a children’s book about a pig who longs to party, will be the first in 30 years written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
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Now, maybe, he’ll get to finish that Hobbit adaptation he started way back when.
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