Tom Tugend
By Tom Tugend
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Culture Tchaikovsky’s ‘Great’ Big Jewish Problem
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – While researching his latest one-man show, “Our Great Tchaikovsky,” Hershey Felder — a playwright, actor and composer who has brought the loves, torments and soaring music of some of the world’s greatest composers to the stage — faced a moral question. Does towering talent exculpate a composer, or any artist, for…
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Film & TV Kirk Douglas’ New Book Explains How The 100-Year-Old Found True Love
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — When movie star Kirk Douglas married Anne Buydens in Las Vegas, the justice of the peace asked Anne to raise her hand and repeat after him, “I take thee, Kirk, for my lawful husband.” Anne, who had recently arrived in the United States from Europe, raised her hand and proudly proclaimed,…
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Fast Forward Raoul Wallenberg Document That Saved Jewish Woman From Nazis Fetches $13K
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A document signed by Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg that saved a Jewish woman from the Nazis sold at auction for more than $13,000. On Sept. 22, 1944, an affidavit signed by Wallenberg in Nazi-occupied Budapest saved the life of Zsigmondne Simko, a Hungarian Jewish woman, by declaring that she was under the…
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Fast Forward ‘Anti-Semitic’ Cartoon of Netanyahu Published By UCLA Student Newspaper
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — A cartoon called anti-Semitic that was published in the University of California – Los Angeles student newspaper has been strongly condemned by civic and campus organizations, among them a pro-Palestinian student group. The cartoon published Monday in UCLA’s Daily Bruin shows Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu standing in front of two stone…
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Breaking News Jewish Stars Shut Out Amid Night of Upset Wins at Golden Globes
LOS ANGELES (JTA) – It was not the best of times for Jewish talent at Sunday evening’s Golden Globe awards. None of the dozen Jewish nominees, including such respected actors as Natalie Portman, Liev Schreiber or Jonah Hill, made it to the winner’s podium. It was left to two artists, hardly mentioned in the advance Jewish…
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Breaking News Obama Celebrates Jewish Survivor and Korean War Hero
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Among his last official acts, outgoing President Barack Obama has signed a bill affixing the name of Tibor Rubin to the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Long Beach, California. Rubin, a Hungarian-born child survivor of the Holocaust, had to wait 55 years until his valor in the Korean War was recognized with…
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Breaking News Israel’s ‘Sand Storm’ Fails to Make Oscars Short List
LOS ANGELES — Israel’s hopes for an Oscar as best foreign-language film were dashed when “Sand Storm” failed to make the cut as competing entries from 85 countries were narrowed to nine semi-finalists. Noticeably, however, three of the nine movies on the shortlist, which was determined Thursday evening, deal with the Nazi era, indicating once again…
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Breaking News George Lucas Honored at $3.5 Million Shoah Foundation Gala
LOS ANGELES – Encouraged by members of Hollywood royalty, 700 guests at the Ambassadors for Humanity gala contributed some $3.5 million for the far-reaching work of the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation. Following the impact of Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List,” the director established the Shoah Foundation in 1994. A signature achievement of its global…
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