Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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Fast Forward The man who’s seen more than 400 Holocaust movies — almost every one ever made — has some takeaways
(JTA) — At least 440 narrative films have been made about the Holocaust — and Rich Brownstein has seen just about every single one of them. As a lecturer on Holocaust film for Yad Vashem’s international school, Brownstein has both a personal and professional interest in viewing and cataloguing so many depictions of Jewish suffering….
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Fast Forward Canadian Jewish News restarts, again, eyeing a younger audience
(JTA) — Reports of the demise of the Canadian Jewish News have been, not for the first time, greatly exaggerated. On Sept. 1, the publication — the largest Jewish news organization in Canada — will rebrand as a digital-first enterprise after abruptly shutting down operations in April 2020 and then resuming a trickle of content…
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Food Danny Raskin, Jewish dining columnist who enjoyed an 8-decade career, dies at 102
(JTA) — Even until the very end of his life, in the hospital, 102-year-old Danny Raskin was working on his restaurant column for the Detroit Jewish News. Raskin, whose historic career with the paper lasted 79 years, was meeting with his editors sharing his plan to retire “The Best of Everything” column he had written…
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News Teachers’ unions are increasingly debating Israel — and in some places are backing boycotts
(JTA) — Public school unions in the U.S. are increasingly becoming a hotbed of Israel discourse, with the largest teachers’ union becoming the latest organized body to deliberate measures that censure Israel and support the Palestinian cause. Members of the National Education Association at the group’s annual meeting held over the weekend (with President Joe…
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Fast Forward 2 dead, over 210 injured in synagogue bleacher collapse in West Bank settlement
(JTA) — Israeli paramedics said that at least two worshipers had been killed and at least 213 were injured in a bleacher collapse incident at a synagogue in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev on Sunday. The prayer gathering was held to mark the beginning of the Shavuot holiday. “Hundreds” of haredi Orthodox…
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Fast Forward Dallas Jewish conservatives plan ‘mask-burning’ party to celebrate end of Texas mandate
(JTA) — The political advocacy group Dallas Jewish Conservatives is celebrating Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s lifting of his statewide mask mandate by holding a mask-burning party. The outdoor event, advertised online as “The Official Texas is Now Open Party! #BurnThatMask,” is scheduled to be held March 10, the day that Abbott’s decision goes into…
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Fast Forward Arizona Jewish Post shuts down after 75 years
(JTA) — The Arizona Jewish Post, a 75-year-old community publication covering the Jewish population of Tucson and southern Arizona, announced it would cease operations effective March 1. The Jewish Community Federation of Southern Arizona, which owns and operates the Post, announced the closure in an email to subscribers this week. The letter cited declines in…
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Culture ‘Mr. Kaplan’ Explores Uruguay’s Nazi Past Through Comedy
In 2009, when South American filmmaker Álvaro Brechner’s movie “Bad Day To Go Fishing” was accepted into the Warsaw Film Festival, he took the opportunity to visit the Polish neighborhood where his grandfather was born. Brechner’s grandparents had fled to South America just before World War II, with the family first settling in Bolivia before…
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