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Graphic Details:  Confessional Comics by Jewish Women is now at New York’s Yeshiva University Museum after successful runs in San Francisco and Toronto.  Catch it until April 15, 2012.  The show, which I co-curated with Sarah Lightman, is inspired by on a story I wrote for the Forward.

The Forward, North America’s leading Jewish news source, is sponsoring Graphic Details.

“When ninth-grader Shulamit Izen fought to establish a group uniting gay and straight students at her Boston-area Jewish high school in 2001, the effort seemed remarkable enough to inspire a film.  Now, organizations supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students are becoming fixtures of student life at a growing number of Jewish day schools.”  More

“Zitz. Bleib. Breng!  The newest member of an Israeli emergency-rescue team may not speak Hebrew — or speak at all — but he may respond to Yiddish variations on ‘Sit. Stay. Fetch!’  New recruit Oman, who hails from the Netherlands, is a rescue dog trained to take orders in Yiddish.”  More

“It’s been through multiple bankruptcies. Its iconic Upper West Side store is but a memory. And it now faces the loss of its only remaining space. But H & H Bagel — once New York’s dominant producer of Jewishy baked treats — will rise again, its beleaguered owner told The Wall Street Journal yesterday.”  More

“Last week, the Forward reported that Turkey had selected a young Jewish pop singer as its representative to 2012’s Eurovision music competition.  Now, in a very different kind of cultural milestone, Turkish state television network TRT has announced it will air Claude Lanzmann’s landmark documentary ‘Shoah’”.  More

“An old joke used to blame the Titanic disaster on the Jews because of the ‘Iceberg.’  But in the case of this week’s sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, there actually is a Jewish connection.”  More

“Turkey’s emissary to this year’s Eurovision Song Contest is a 24-year-old pop singer from the western metropolis of Izmir named Can Bonomo.  He’s also Jewish, and his nomination may represent an intriguing form of cultural détente at a time of frosty relations between Turkey and Israel.”  More

“As Jerusalem continues to shake off its, er, parochial reputation, Israel’s Ministry of Tourism this week announced the second annual Jerusalem International Marathon will run its course on March 16 around some of the Holy City’s most iconic sites.”  More

“A gritty tale of stolen Nazi artwork is about to get the big-budget treatment from Hollywood.’The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History,’ by author Robert M. Edsel, has been optioned by actor/filmmaker George Clooney.”  More

“Stephane Gendron, mayor of tiny Huntingdon, Quebec and host of French-language chatfest “Face a Face,” informed his audience last month that Israel is an “apartheid regime” and doesn’t deserve to exist.” More