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Could The ‘Cats’ Movie Design Be Inspired By Chagall’s Creepy Kittens?
To paraphrase the blockbuster musical “Cats,” Jellicles can and Jellicles do. But should they have? A trailer for “Cats” the movie, director Tom Hooper’s latest cinematic vivisection of a popular musical, was unleashed upon an innocent public July 18. It is notable for its familiar Andrew Lloyd Webber score, A-List talent and its Doctor Moreau-esque…
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Theater Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor And Yiddish Theater Scion, To Receive Kennedy Center Honor
The Kennedy Center Honors announced July 18 that it would recognize a member of Yiddish Theater royalty. Michael Tilson Thomas, the longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony and an 11-time Grammy winner, will receive the prestigious award at a ceremony to be broadcast December 15. Thomas is a veteran maestro, pianist and composer…
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Seth And Mark Rogen To Be Honored At Workmen’s Circle Benefit
This year’s Workmen’s Circle benefit will be a father-son affair. On July 18, the Workmen’s Circle, the historic Jewish social justice group, announced it would be honoring non-profit professional Mark Rogen and his son, actor Seth Rogen, with the organization’s Generation to Generation Activism Award. “From the moment we met Mark and Seth Rogen, we…
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12 Overlooked Jewish Films That You Can Stream For Free
The Internet is filled with oddities and lost gems. We took a dive into YouTube and found that some of the most interesting Jewish films are out there. And you can watch them right now. 1) The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Ted Kotcheff’s 1974 screen adaptation of Mordechai Richler’s classic coming-of-age novel starred a young…
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Remembering Mark Talisman — Who Served The Jewish People With Pride And Grace
The life of Mark Talisman, who died on July 11 at the age of 78 must be noted for its most significant accomplishments. Talisman was raised in Cleveland, then as now, one of the most organized and accomplished of Jewish communities in the United States, one in which Jews comfortably played a central role in…
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Louvre Becomes First Museum To Remove Sackler Name Amid Opioid Lawsuits
The Louvre Museum in Paris took a bold step in an ongoing art world controversy by removing the name of the Sackler family from a gallery that members of the family, the majority owners of Purdue Pharma, helped to fund. The Louvre is the first major museum to make such a move. The Sacklers have…
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‘Mein Kampf’ Is Back — And There Are Reasons To Worry About That
On this date in 1925, Adolf Hitler published “Mein Kampf.” The most recent annotated version quickly became a non-fiction best seller in Germany with around 85,000 copies sold. The book had previously been banned from publication in the country (though it could still legally be read if a copy could be found). But in 2015,…
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Remembering Else Ury, Famed Children’s Writer And Victim Of The Holocaust
Among the books outlawed by the Nazis were the widely-read children’s books of Else Ury. The Third Reich ended Ury’s career as part of their purge of “degenerate” art, and within seven years of that censorship she was killed at Auschwitz. But Ury’s beloved character Annemarie Braun, known as “Nesthäkchen,” a blonde-haired, blue-eyed young woman…
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In ‘Shangri-La’ Rick Rubin’s Genius Gets A Spiritual Shrug
For over three decades, Rick Rubin has been a fabled figure in popular music – and he looks the part. Coiffed like a Stoic philosopher or a traditional representation of the Judeo-Christian god with a nimbus of wispy hair and a chest-length beard, eyes often shielded behind sunglasses, Rubin presents a legendary character: a Jewish…
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Eating Cake With Maira Kalman
When I met Maira Kalman at her apartment a year ago, I was in some upheaval. My boyfriend had ended our relationship. My apartment was becoming comically unlivable. (If you’ve never woken up to the sounds of a large rodent trapped in your ceiling, I don’t recommend it.) I’d spent months lying awake most nights…
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Hebrew Is In Trouble — Here’s What We Need To Do
The recent article in The Forward by Aviya Kushner “No One’s Studying Hebrew Anymore — That’s A Big Problem should not be taken lightly. Ms. Kushner calls attention to a serious failure of our Jewish education system — Hebrew language proficiency at both higher and more elementary levels of learning. She is right; there is…
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