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When Americans Thought Hitler Had Been Killed — In 1939
On April 1, 1939, Hitler was in a very bad mood. The previous day the Führer had learned that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had grown something resembling a spine. After reversing Britain’s policy of appeasement on March 15, following Hitler’s seizure of Czechoslovakia, on March 31 Chamberlain made a pledge of Anglo-French support to…
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Film & TV NYPD ‘Actively Investigating’ David Blaine After Sexual Assault Accusations
The New York Police Department is investigating magician David Blaine after two women accused him of sexual assault. In a news conference April 1, Dermot F. Shea, the department’s chief of detectives confirmed the investigation into the complaints, first reported by The Daily Beast. Shea refused to comment on the details of the allegations or…
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Benito Mussolini’s Granddaughter Is Fighting With Jim Carrey On Twitter
Twitter is a commons of free thought that has no equivalent in our history. Every so often we’re granted reminders of how thoroughly connected the little blue bird has made our lives. Who could have foreseen, for instance, that we would one day have a medium wherein Jim Carrey and Benito Mussolini’s granddaughter could engage…
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The Sami Rohr Prize For Jewish Literature Announces Its Nominees
On April 1 the Jewish Book Council announced the finalists for the 2019 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Awarded since 2007, the Rohr Prize recognizes early career English-language writers whose work reflects the Jewish experience. The five finalists in contention for the top $100,000 prize include two past National Jewish Book Award winners —…
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RBG Attended An Amos Oz Commemoration In DC
On the afternoon of March 31, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a rare public appearance at the Temple Sinai synagogue in Washington, DC to pay her respects to Israeli author Amos Oz, who died of cancer in December at the age of 79. Ginsburg, who has been keeping a low profile since undergoing…
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Everyone Is Baffled By Batsheva
If you are a short person in New York you will experience certain uncomfortable things. Men reaching for the subway pole will put their elbows where your head ought to be. At events filled with tall women, you will feel like a child even as you mutter “I AM 26.” In your impractically tall-ceilinged apartment,…
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Film & TV Don’t Dismiss Steve Bannon — He Really Does Want To Dismantle The World Order
Stephen K. Bannon lost his job in the White House more than a year and a half ago, departing in an atmosphere so rancorous that his erstwhile champion, Donald Trump, slurred him on Twitter as “Sloppy Steve Bannon.”) Then Bannon’s full-throated support for Roy Moore’s campaign to represent Alabama in the U.S. Senate ended in…
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Carl Reiner On Judaism, Atheism And The ‘Monster’ In The White House
At 96, Carl Reiner still slays. The comedy deity, who is being honored this week at the Westchester Jewish Film Festival, has maintained his singular outlook — melding the clear-eyed and cockeyed, the everyday and absurd. Busier than most people half his age, Reiner’s prolific on Twitter, where the current occupant of the White House…
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What The New Left Could Learn From The Old Left
Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics by Michael Walzer NYRB Classics, 120 pages, $14.95 Michael Walzer’s “Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics,” published in 1971 and newly reissued by NYRB Classics, may be the least exciting book ever written about taking to the streets. I don’t mean that as an insult,…
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How The Jewish Left Evolved On Zionism
The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left From Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky By Susie Linfield Yale University Press, 400 pages, $32.50 In 1981, in an essay titled “Revolutionary Realism and the Struggle for Palestine,” Fred Halliday, a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review, broke with his comrades. A scholar of…
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