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The Odyssey Of Dr. Richard Simms — An Art Collector Like No Other
Editor’s Note: On this day in 1867, the artist Käthe Kollwitz was born. Today, we revisit the first story in our four-part series about the life and career of Dr. Richard Simms, a dentist who became one of the world’s foremost collectors of Kollwitz’s work. Part II may be read here. When Richard A. Simms…
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Did Trump pay a Jewish kid to take his SATs for him?
In her forthcoming book, Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump vivisects the current resident of the White House, documenting a family legacy of emotional abuse and special treatment that made him the man he is today. But according to Trump, a clinical psychologist, not all of the president’s advantages fell under the family’s escutcheon; the young…
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Weirdest George Soros canard yet puts billionaire in cahoots with Beyoncé
In between funding Antifa, bringing caravans of undocumented immigrants to the U.S. border and planning nationwide protests against police violence, Jewish billionaire George Soros is spearheading a decades-long con to hide Beyoncé’s secret Italian heritage from the world. At least, that’s what one Florida politician wants you to believe. On July 4, Congressional candidate K.W….
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The JCC theater camp director who changed my life
There I was: 10 years old, tiny, squeaky, with a mediocre haircut and crooked teeth, delivering a Shakespearean monologue on the big stage at the Denver, Colorado JCC. I was playing Nick Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” It was a big character, and a big challenge for me, congenitally shy as I was. But…
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Why the Ayn Rand Institute getting a federal handout is the Rand-iest thing ever
What does Ayn Rand do when a global pandemic strikes? Does she use the impressive torque of her sterling bootstraps to vault over adversity? Does she seize the moment of a supine economy to make her own happiness and fortune — likely with locomotives — at the expense of all others? We’ll never know. Though…
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How Jewish themes inspired Ennio Morricone
The Oscar-winning Italian composer Ennio Morricone, who died on July 6 at age 91, is cherished by film fans for his scores to Spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone as well as Quentin Tarantino’s “The Hateful Eight” (2015), for which he received an Academy Award. Yet as Morricone sometimes pointed out to journalists, his artistry…
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Why Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001’ is the ultimate golem story
News that one of the iconic spacesuits from Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” is going up for auction, gives us occasion to explore the link between the myth of the golem and Kubrick’s legendary science fiction film. The suit was made by the company P. Frankenstein & Sons Ltd. in Manchester, England, and the…
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NBC’s Jacob Soboroff on the ongoing crisis of family separation
Jacob Soboroff was among the first American civilians to witness what family separation looked like. By the time the NBC and MSNBC correspondent arrived at the Casa Padre center in Brownsville, Tex. in June 2018, the policy had already affected thousands of migrants. “Going to a former Walmart that’s 250,000 square feet and seeing 1,500…
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McCarthy was anti-Communist. Was he also anti-Semitic?
Was the anti-Communist Senator Joe McCarthy also an anti-Semite? That question assumes new resonance in this era of spiraling xenophobia. And there’s fresh evidence in the Wisconsin lawmaker’s personal and professional papers, which I was the first person to gain access to as part of researching my book, “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of…
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What Trump’s “Garden of American Heroes” says about his America — and the way other countries handle their history
Standing before the graven images of four American presidents on Friday July 3, Donald Trump announced the establishment of a “National Garden of American Heroes,” an offer of further idolatry that left historians puzzled by its strange assortment of figures. At first glance, the American icons pegged for statuary treatment in the executive order declaring…
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The Forward wins big at the 2020 Rockowers
The 39th Annual Simon Rockower Awards for Excellence in Jewish Journalism, held virtually on July 3, recognized a broad swath of the Forward’s coverage, from the strange saga of a thrift store Torah to the swan song of the paper’s print edition to the infectious tunes of Hanukkah a capella. Forverts staff writer Jordan Kutzik…
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