This Week in Forward Arts and Culture
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Michael Kaminer talks to Tim Supple, the British-Jewish director of a new pan-Arab production of “One Thousand and One Nights.”
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Lawrence Grossman reviews a history of the Synagogue in America.
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Eli Valley’s first comic as the Forward’s artist-in-residence looks at the similarities between the Knesset and Kafka.
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Susan Tumarkin Goodman leafs through a sketchbook kept by Bella Chagall.
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Philologos goes Pentacostal.
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Shaul Magid reviews a new history of the Frankist heresy, and its intriguing leader, Jacob Frank.
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