30 November 2009

Is a Picture Hipper than 1,000 Words?


Back to the Forward (really the in-print gathering place for the current Jewish zeitgeist) - their edgy cartoonist Eli Valley skewers Jewish leadership and self-pretension every week. Quite honestly, I often think he goes too far and (many) others accuse him of self-hatred. However this week's strip asks the ironic question, "What if Kafka's contemporaries conceived of the ironic, post-denominational Judaism of Heeb?"

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