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Some People Really Need To Stop Calling Themselves Refugees
I would never dare call myself a refugee. Nor would I ever hold up a sign that reads “I am a refugee.” Although, technically, I’m a refugee. That is, I’m an immigrant who had entered the United States thanks to my refugee status. That was what they called it in those days — “Refugee Status.”…
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With Trump Travel Ban Suspended, What Will Filmmakers From Targeted Countries Do For The Oscars?
The 2017 film awards show circuit has been more politically charged than most, from Meryl Streep’s speech criticizing President Trump for mocking a disabled reporter during his 2016 campaign to Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ pointedly humorous imitation of Trump, performed as she accepted a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role on HBO’s “Veep.” Central to Hollywood’s…
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This Archive Of Rare Recordings Is A Perfect Weekend Project
Yesterday, we wrote about the incredible resource that is ubu.com – an internet archive of all things avant-garde. It’s a tremendous place to get lost, but, although it may be the finest, there are other such archival rabbit-holes on the internet (isn’t the entire internet really just one archival rabbit hole anyways?). There’s Monoskop, Memory of…
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WATCH: New Leonard Cohen Video Released For ‘Traveling Light’
Visual artist Sammy Slabbinck, who was responsible for the album cover for Leonard Cohen’s critically acclaimed final album “You Want It Darker,” has released a lyric video for the track “Traveling Light” from the same album. The song, like others from Cohen’s last months, combines mature introspection with haunting intimations of mortality. “I’m traveling light,”…
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Oscars 2017: 7 Unexpected Jewish Facts
(JTA) — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is happy to forget 2016, when it was widely eviscerated for nominating only white artists in the major award categories for the second straight year. But things are looking up for this year’s Academy Awards, which are set to air Sunday night, as they feature…
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View These Newly Released Photographs From The Original Production Of West Side Story
You can see Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story” as a Broadway musical, as a film, and now, as a stop-motion gif. Well, sort of. The New York Public Library (NYPL) just digitized over 1300 photographs of the original production of “West Side Story” in 1957. The photographs, taken by Martha Swope, Friedman Abeles, Florence Vandamm,…
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This Crazy Website Is The Internet At Its Absolute Best
The internet can be a scary, terrible, racist, sexist, garbage-fire of a place (4-chan exists, lest we forget). But frequently, the internet offers up a site that can remind you of its incredible potential – its potential for delightful weirdness, its potential for the democratic proliferation of knowledge. I know that I’m a little (okay,…
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Meet Trump’s Latest Nemesis — Steven Goldstein From The Anne Frank Center
The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect began attracting a significant amount of public attention in late January, when its executive director Steven Goldstein published a statement decrying President Trump’s rhetoric and stated policy goals regarding immigrants. “As President Trump prepares orders to wall out Mexicans and shut out refugees from America, today marks one…
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Why Israeli Children Need To Learn Arabic at an Earlier Age
Every street sign in Israel is in Hebrew and Arabic, but many Israelis can’t understand a standard conversation in Arabic. In a moving letter to Haaretz written this week by Lital Lam, a student at Tel Aviv University, headlined “Israelis, Speak Arabic,” Lam expresses the alienation she feels because she does not speak Arabic fluently….
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Who’s Afraid Of Saul Alinsky – And Why?
If you’ve watched to Fox News or read Breitbart in the past, say, eight years, it’s likely that you’ve heard (or seen) the name “Saul Alinsky.” He’s frequently invoked by the likes of Sean Hannity as the bogeyman. So just who is this guy, and why does the Right love to say his name? Saul…
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How Marie Antoinette and Sean Spicer Are Making Babka Famous
Bomb threats against JCCs throughout the U.S. are bringing many reactions, but none tastier than this tweet from The Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect in response to Presidential spokesman Sean Spicer’s bizarre insistence that Donald Trump has spoken out against anti-Semitism many times: Spicer @WhiteHouse says about our org: “No matter how many times…
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