The Schmooze

Out and About: Brooklyn’s Shofar Master; Frank Miller’s Revenge

Image by Legendary Comics

By Ezra Glinter October 3, 2011

Thousands of Jerusalem’s “pashkevilim” are going online.
Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel is a revenge fantasy against Muslims.

Image by Legendary Comics

The Statue of Liberty turned 25.
Joseph Berger profiles Borough Park’s shofar master.
Paul Simon was inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Forward arts and culture editor Dan Friedman introduces British readers to “The Wire.”
Nathan Englander’s “The Reader” gets animated.
The National Jewish Theater Foundation has received a $60,000 grant to help create a Holocaust theater archive.
Jewish British poet Emanuel Litivinoff has died at age 96.

Ezra Glinter is the critic-at-large of the Forward.

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