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Culture David Mamet, Doing The Seemingly Inevitable, Has Written A Play About Harvey Weinstein
LOS ANGELES, Feb 23 (Reuters) – David Mamet has written a new play about film producer Harvey Weinstein, the Pulitzer Prize winner said in an interview published on Friday. Timing for production of the play, currently titled “Bitter Wheat,” is still to be determined, the report said. “I was talking with my Broadway producer and…
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Fast Forward Israeli Military Investigating Palestinian’s Death In West Bank Confrontation
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian man died after a confrontation with Israeli troops in the West Bank on Thursday that the Palestinian Authority condemned as a “cold-blooded execution.” The Israeli military said the man had attempted to attack troops and that it was investigating the incident. In security camera footage posted on social media and…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Songbook Tied To Austrian Far Right Leaders
An Austrian student fraternity has a songbook containing anti-Semitic lyrics making fun of the Holocaust and insulting Jews, a newspaper said on Tuesday, three weeks after it exposed a similar case that forced a far-right politician to quit. The earlier case reported by Falter prompted the resignation of a prominent member of the anti-Islam Freedom…
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Fast Forward Polish Embassy In Israel Vandalized With Swastikas As Shoah Law Fallout Grows
JERUSALEM/WARSAW, Feb 18 (Reuters) – Swastikas and profanities were daubed on the entrance to Poland’s embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well as Poles and others, were among perpetrators of the Nazi Holocaust. Poland sparked international criticism over its stance on the facts of the Holocaust when…
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Fast Forward Pressure Mounts On FBI Over Botched Response To Tips About Florida Shooter
Pressure is mounting on the FBI director to resign after his agency admitted it failed to investigate a warning that the man accused of killing 17 people — including several Jews — at a Florida high school possessed a gun and the desire to kill. The disclosure spread angry disbelief among residents of the Miami…
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Fast Forward Met Museum Can Keep Picasso Sold To Fund Escape From Nazis, Judge Rules
NEW YORK, Feb 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking the return by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan of a Pablo Picasso masterpiece that a German Jewish businessman was allegedly forced to sell at a low price to fund an escape from the Nazis and fascism. U.S. District Judge…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis: Europe Must Do More To Fight Anti-Semitism
VATICAN CITY, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Pope Francis called on European countries on Monday to do more to fight anti-Semitism, saying indifference on the issue was a virus that could allow the ideas of racial hatred to spread. Francis issued his appeal in a speech to a Rome conference on the responsibility of states to…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Culture Minister Hails Her Country’s Oscar Failure
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s culture minister breathed a sigh of relief on Tuesday that her country’s contender had failed to land an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film – despite not having watched the movie. “Foxtrot” tells the fictional story of an army checkpoint where bored Israeli troops shoot Arab passers-by after mistaking a…
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