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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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Were Marx And Engels The Original Odd Couple?
We all know Karl Marx as the bushy beard, as “Das Kapital,” as the “ism,” as “The Communist Manifesto…” But, thanks to a new film, we’ll soon get to know Karl Marx the man, or, at least, a hilariously romantic version of him. “The Young Karl Marx” is the newest film by Raoul Peck, who…
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Sean Spicer Is Fighting With The Anne Frank Center
On the day when President Trump most forcefully condemned anti-Semitism, his press secretary Sean Spicer is clashing with the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, based in New York, over whether Trump’s comments were powerful enough. Trump on Tuesday decried “the anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers,” including yesterday’s wave of 11…
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John Lewis Turns 77 — Here’s How He Honored Elie Wiesel
Today John Lewis — civil rights movement hero, longtime Congressional representative, National Book Award-winner, preacher of the importance of seeking out “good trouble” — turns 77. Little speaks to Lewis’s significance as well as his own words. Whether he’s speaking about his own history, from his childhood in rural Alabama to his place on the…
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Anne Frank Center Calls Trump’s Statement On Anti-Semitism ‘Condescending’ And ‘Pathetic’
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,” Anne Frank wrote in her famous diary. She would likely be proud of an institution bearing her name, the Anne Frank Center For Mutual Respect, which has wasted no time positioning itself as an outspoken critic of President…
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Why We Must Beware Trump’s Willing Executioners
‘It is a disgrace which gets worse with every day that passes,” one observer wrote of the deteriorating political scene we know all too well. “Politics everywhere and everywhere the terrorism of the Right…. It is astounding how easily everything collapses.” He added, “It is shocking how day after day naked acts of violence, breaches…
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How Russian Immigrants Taught Us What It Means To Be American
Almost 40 years ago, when my husband and I were newlyweds, I spotted a flier on a bulletin board asking about volunteers to assist Russian Jewish immigrants moving to the Twin Cities. “Let’s do it,” I told my husband. “It’s only a six-month commitment. We’ll be in, we’ll be out, and we’ll get some mitzvah…
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Could a Few Good Short Stories Save The Trump Presidency?
In Peter Orner’s new book, “Am I Alone Here? Notes on Living To Read and Reading To Live,” he admits that he reads in taquerias, at traffic lights and “in part, to get away from email.” Illustrated by the cartoonist Eric Orner, the author’s brother, the unusual and deeply personal book is being passed hand-to-hand…
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Paul Newman’s Long Lost Film’s National Debut In Doubt
Jack Garfein, who holds what is believed to be the only print of a recently rediscovered film directed by Paul Newman, has pulled out of a deal shaped in over a year of talks with Turner Classic Movies, the Forward has learned. The film, whose discovery was first reported by the Forward, was set to…
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A Turkish Magazine Was Just Shut Down For A Cartoon About Moses
According to a report by the Agence France-Presse (AFP), the magazine Girgir, at one time Turkey’s most successful satirical magazine, was shut down today after the publication of a cartoon depicting Moses. The AFP wrote that the cartoon showed “the bearded Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt, with his companions complaining and using vulgar…
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