Shira Li Bartov
By Shira Li Bartov
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Fast Forward Toronto’s first Holocaust museum looks to the post-survivor era
'What we set out to do from the very beginning was to ensure that this was a place to hear from survivors long after they’re gone,' the museum’s executive director said.
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Fast Forward As ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ ends, will its Jewish legacy be more than a punchline?
For some, its representation of Jews on mainstream TV made it a pioneer of the 2010s. For others, it reinforced tropes
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Fast Forward Ice cream truck outside Auschwitz provokes criticism
A spokesman for the museum said the truck, which is just outside of the institution’s protected zone, is an example of “aesthetic tastelessness” and “disrespect”
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Theater ‘An American Tail’ musical adaptation hopes a Jewish immigration story will resonate in 2023
The team hopes to tour the show if it has success at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis
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Culture The real Jewish history behind Netflix’s ‘Transatlantic’ and the WWII rescue mission that inspired it
The story of Varian Fry, who helped lead an operation that saved thousands of Jewish artists and other refugees, gets the Netflix treatment
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