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“Jersey Boys” Writers Found Guilty of Copyright Infringement
According to an article in Forbes, Marshall Brickman (who has collaborated with Woody Allen) and Rick Elice, the two co-authors of hit Broadway musical “Jersey Boys,” and show director Des McAnuff were all found guilty this week of copyright infringement by a Nevada federal jury. The jury decided that 10% of the show’s success could…
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Paul Krassner Celebrates Abbie Hoffman’s 80th and Remembers Dropping Acid With Groucho
On November 30, fans of 1960s counterculture commemorate what would have been the 80th birthday of the American Jewish activist and anarchist Abbie Hoffman, who died in 1989. Hoffman was a cofounder of the Youth International Party, whose adherents were called Yippies, alongside Jerry Rubin (1938 –1994), Nancy Kurshan (born 1944), and Paul Krassner (born…
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Three Crazy Ways That Israelis Have Desecrated Their Flag
Earlier yesterday morning, Donald Trump tweeted that he would like to outlaw the burning of the American flag. We wrote an article about the tweet that detailed the long and unsuccessful history of American flag burning legislation as well as the Israeli flag desecration laws and their recent ramp up in severity (among other changes,…
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What’s the Word of 2016? Hint: It’s Not Mishegas
Think you’re hearing a little more Yiddish along with the news of the latest Trump drama? You may not be imagining. Charles Blow used schlepped in the first sentence of his widely shared column “No Trump, We Can’t Just Get Along,” kicking it off with the classic “Donald Trump schlepped across town on Tuesday to…
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Sand Storms, Soldiers and Satire Set Stage for Other Israel Film Festival
With over 80 Jewish film festivals nationwide, we can certainly fathom how New York’s Other Israel Film Festival, with its mandate to focus on the “others” within Israeli life, has thrived, and reached its tenth year. One could in fact claim that this perspective is crucial to understanding Israeli life — many societies are predicated…
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When Jill Stein Was in a Really Bad Folk Band Called Somebody’s Sister
It didn’t take long after the November 8th election for Green Party candidate Jill Stein to find her way back into the news. On Friday November 25th, the Green Party, led by Stein, officially filed for an election results recount in Wisconsin. Campaigns that request recounts are required to pay for all of the associated…
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Descendants Of Jewish WWII Refugees Reunited With Long-Lost Painting
The painting had quite the journey. Henry and Hertha Bromberg were forced to sell the 16th-century Flemish portrait — attributed to either Joos van Cleve or his son Cornelis — in Paris while fleeing Nazi Germany, the New York Times’s Aurelian Breeden reports. It subsequently moved between a series of art collectors and sellers before…
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If Trump Wants to Outlaw Flag Burning, He Should Look To Israel
Early this morning, Donald Trump tweeted the following: The tweet is possibly a response to the protests occurring at Hampshire College, a small liberal arts school in Amherst Massachusetts. The protesters are upset that Hampshire decided to remove all flags from its campus after an incident on November 10th or 11th in which the campus’s…
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Deborah Levy And More Make NYT Notable Books List
Last week, the New York Times named its “100 Notable Books of 2016.” Included in their number were many reviewed by the Forward. Those included Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Here I Am,” Michael Chabon’s “Moonglow,” Affinity Konar’s “Mischling,” Boris Fishman’s “Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo,” Deborah Levy’s “Hot Milk,” Adam Kirsch’s “The People and the…
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Will The New Canadian Currency Feature a Jewish Sports Hero?
The Bank of Canada recently announced that it has finished compiling its shortlist of candidates for the “bankNOTEable” campaign – a campaign that will highlight the achievements of one Canadian woman by putting her face on new Canadian banknotes beginning in 2018. Among the 5 women on the shortlist, chosen from over 26,000 nominations, is…
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What AP Gets Wrong About the Alt-Right — And What We Can Do About It
Copy editors around the world are struggling to write headlines that are accurate in a rapidly changing political landscape, and many are getting flak for calling white racists and anti-Semites what they are now calling themselves: “the alt-right.” Normally, calling someone what they call themselves — such as “environmental activist” — is reasonable, and if…
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