Out and About: New York’s ‘Power Congregations’; ‘Maus’ at 25
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Paul Buhle wonders whether comics are the Jewish art form.
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Jeff Newelt picks the top 11 comic books of 5771.
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Ruth Franklin looks back at Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” on its 25th anniversary.
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Foster Kamer picks New York’s top 10 “power congregations.”
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In a newly published lecture, Saul Bellow ponders the role of “A Jewish Writer in America.”
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Gertrude Himmelfarb reviews Adam Kirsch’s “Why Trilling Matters” in The New Criterion.
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Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk has managed to register himself with the interior ministry as “without religion.”
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Mizrahi music comes to the Kremlin.
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The Shtetl Hipster comes to Tumblr.
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There is now a “Schindler’s List” action figure.
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Which celebrities are bad for the Jews? A new coffee table book has it figured out.
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On the Yiddish Song of the Week blog, Itzik Gottesman introduces “Dreyfusl mayn kind,” a rare song about the Dreyfus affair.
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