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Following a tumultuous period in its illustrious history, the Judah L. Magnes Museum — which boasts of the third-largest Judaica collection in the United States — is celebrating its 40th anniversary and marking its reopening as an independent entity with “Brought to Light — The Storied Collections of the Judah L. Magnes Museum.” This is…
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Making a Film About Jesus Without Raising Hell
TORONTO — While filmmaker Mel Gibson faces charges of antisemitism surrounding his controversial upcoming film about Jesus, another movie producer is garnering praise for making a different movie about Jesus. Garth Drabinsky, a Toronto-based show-business impresario, is the producer behind “The Gospel of John,” a movie based on the highly polemical Gospel of John, the…
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At What Price Art?
In 1974, renowned architect Louis Kahn was found dead in a men’s room at New York’s Penn Station. The circumstances of the death of Kahn, a secretive man, only compounded the mysteries that surrounded his life. Bankrupt, he was on his way home from India, having completed plans for one of his greatest architectural achievements,…
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“As a Jew, it was Hitler and me. That’s the way I pictured the war.” — Theodore Diamond, U.S. Army Air Force For America’s Jews World War II was not just a fight for their country. It was also a fight against the global scourge of fascism that threatened their fellow Jews abroad. “Ours to…
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Moms’ Plight Spurs Action by Agencies (Correction)
Jonathan Wilner took the Disneyland photo that appeared with the October 24 East Village Mamele column. The October 24 article “Moms’ Plight Spurs Action by Agencies” misidentified New York’s Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. The Council is an independent organization with UJA-Federation affiliation. Melissa Oringer was incorrectly identified in the October 31 article “Nice Jewitch…
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PSALM 151 PSALM 151
Born in New York City, Alan Bernheimer graduated from Yale in 1970, and by the late 1970s found his home in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he still lives. There he joined a group of poets often called the “language school,” whose work is distinguished by a close attention to the puzzles and perils…
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Conspiracy Theories: It is, it seems, an age-old tradition: The more antisemitic the world gets, the more Jews try to figure out why. Recent headlines have made for many a wrinkled brow: A German parliamentarian calls Jews “a race of perpetrators,” and he’s offered ideological support by a commander of an elite German special-forces army…
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Speak Like a Sailor
Modern Hebrew, as is well known, has had to come up with many new words for concepts and things that did not exist in the language before its late-19th-century spoken revival, or that were themselves 20th-century innovations. There are thousands of such words in Israeli Hebrew today, and dozens more of them continue to enter…
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Tories Rallying Around New Contender
LONDON — British politics just got a lot more interesting. After six years of uncanny good luck, facing only the most lackluster competition, Prime Minister Tony Blair suddenly has a serious opponent — and just at the moment when he has begun to feel vulnerable. Britain’s Conservative Party, in the doldrums since 1997, has anointed…
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Tipping the Balance Through Gerrymandering
How “representative” is our House of Representatives? Hardly at all. And if the Texas legislature’s recent decision on the redistricting of its congressional districts is upheld in the courts, the U.S. legislature will be even less representative than it has been. At present, of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives, only about 40…
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Newsdesk November 7, 2003
Israel Introduces U.N. Resolution After facing hostile resolutions at the United Nations for a half-century, Israel this week introduced its own resolution in a General Assembly committee, voicing concern for Israeli children living under the threat of Palestinian terrorism. “Until now we were only playing defense; now we are playing offense,” said Ambassador Arye Mekel,…
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