By Michael Kaminer
Groups supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students are becoming fixtures of student life at a growing number of Jewish day schools.
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By Michael Kaminer
Harvey Pekar’s widow hopes to memorialize the comic artist with a statue in Cleveland. As you would expect, it’s going to look a bit different from your classic bronze.
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By Michael Kaminer
A new exhibit brings the Dead Sea Scrolls to Discovery Times Square. The massive show aims to put the ancient artifacts in their historical context.
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By Michael Kaminer
GIVING 2011: We put a call out for young Jews making a difference. You told us about Erin Schrode and nine others helping African villagers and making neighbors laugh.
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By Michael Kaminer
To direct an elaborate, ambitious new production of “One Thousand and One Nights” — translated by a Lebanese novelist and starring a pan-Arab cast — Toronto’s splashy Luminato arts festival turned to a British Jew. But director Tim Supple has built a career on connecting cultures: Acclaimed for bold reboots of stage classics, he brought “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to India, “Twelfth Night” to British TV and “Midnight’s Children” to New York City’s Apollo Theater. With Arab-world turmoil as the real-life backdrop for “intense” rehearsals of “Nights” in Fes, Morocco, Supple talked to the Forward’s Michael Kaminer by e-mail.
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