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The Secret Jewish History Of James Bond
Editor’s Note: George Lazenby, who gained fame for playing the role of James Bond in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” turns 80 today. In his honor, we present our own history of James Bond. It’s hard to imagine anyone less Jewish — or more goyish — than James Bond: He of the shaken-not-stirred-martinis; he who…
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Richard Linklater Is Making Sondheim’s ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ — It Will Take 20 Years
Richard Linklater has had a weird and varied career. He’s given us tender-hearted indie two-handers with his “Before” trilogy. He’s given us broad family comedy with “School of Rock” and the remake of “Bad News Bears.” He’s given us roto-scoped reflections on dreams in “Waking Life” and coming of age campus dramedies with “Dazed and…
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In ‘Mr. Klein,’ A Dark Document Of The French Occupation Muddled By A Story Of Obsession
On July 16, 1942, Paris lost its Jews. They disappeared in what became known as the Vélodrome d’Hiver (Vel’ D’Hiv) Roundup, named for the indoor bicycle racing track where the bulk of a reported 13,152 Jews were detained as they awaited transfer by cattle car to Auschwitz. This mass arrest by the French authorities, at…
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Netanyahu Calls ‘Our Boys’ Anti-Semitic, Urges Boycott Of Network That Airs It
The HBO and Keshet Studios-produced series “Our Boys,” which recounts the 2014 revenge murder of a Palestinian teenager by Orthodox Jews, continues to generate controversy — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed the show and called for a boycott of Keshet. “The propaganda Channel 12 [Keshet’s station in Israel] produced an anti-Semitic series called…
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Q & A: Eran Riklis On Directing A Mossad Thriller With Ben Kingsley
In the Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis’s new spy thriller “Spider in the Web,” Sir Ben Kingsley plays a world-weary Mossad agent. This, after playing Adolf Eichmann in “Operation Finale” (2018) and a member of the Israeli intelligence community in the recent Netflix release “The Red Sea Diving Resort.” Like Kinglsey, Riklis is in familiar territory…
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Acclaimed French Novelist Apologizes For Caricatures Denying, Mocking Holocaust
(JTA) — One of France’s most celebrated novelists 30 years ago published caricatures mocking the Holocaust and texts denying that the Holocaust happened. Yann Moix, whose first novel won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1996, apologized for his actions and suspended the promotion of his latest novel, “Orleans,” after the weekly L’Express last week published…
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George Gershwin’s Mercilessly Short Summertime
Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music By Richard Crawford W.W. Norton & Company, $39.95, 592 pages It’s hard to read a biography of George Gershwin, who died at 38, without feeling a sense of loss. But rather than bemoan the composer’s premature passing, Richard Crawford, a musicologist and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan,…
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In Europe, A Festival Insists That Jewish Culture Is As Important As Ever
On September 1, 2019, the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, 34 countries will observe the European Days of Jewish Culture, opening the doors of historic synagogues and engaging local communities in over 400 cities throughout the continent. That anniversary is notable, but rather than focusing on the Holocaust and its near-obliteration…
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Ingrid Bergman’s Lifelong Love Affair With the Jews
Ingrid Bergman, who would have turned 104 today, August 29, is cherished by film fans, especially for playing two foes of the Nazis: Ilsa Lund in “Casablanca” and Alicia Huberman in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Notorious.” Her late-career incarnation as Golda Meir in the 1982 TV film “A Woman Called Golda” surprised some viewers. Yet her own…
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Setting The Record Straight On Christian Zionism
'Many Christian Zionists equate the modern nation-state of Israel with the land of the biblical Israelites'
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Fashion Designers, Artists Protest Stephen Ross’s Hudson Yards Art Space
An enclave for the arts near the Hudson River is the latest institution to feel blowback for billionaire businessman Stephen Ross’s support for President Trump. Artists and fashion brands are protesting The Shed, a recently-opened venue for emerging artists at Hudson Yards, the sprawling, $25 billion riverside development spearheaded by Ross’s real estate firm, Related…
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