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Jungle Fever, Minus the Heat
One of the great ironies of cultural criticism is that bad movies can illuminate important ideas or historical trends. Indeed, bad movies may even be better at doing this than good movies because good movies are more likely to seduce us into their world, leaving us less imaginative room outside of themselves in which to…
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September 11 Commemorations ‘Shabbat of Remembrance’: At the Village Temple’s “Shabbat of Remembrance,” composer Danny Ashkenasi discusses his creative response to the events of September 11, 2001, culminating in his composition “The Book of Job,” weaving biblical text with accounts of the experiences of New Yorkers. After performing featured selections at the Reform services, the…
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Painting a Portrait of the Artist During the Third Reich
In May 2002, while some Jewish activists were inciting Hollywood regulars to boycott the Cannes Film Festival as a protest against a wave of antisemitism in France, screenwriter and playwright Ronald Harwood was attending the world’s most celebrated film festival for his movie’s premiere. “This is the perfect time for a film on the Holocaust,”…
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Whither Saudi Arabia?
The Two Faces of Islam: The House of Sa’Ud from Tradition to Terror By Stephen Schwartz Doubleday, 336 pages, $25. * * *| Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude By Robert Baer Crown, 256 pages, $24.95. * * *| Hatred’s Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism…
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CLOSE-UPS FROM THE DIASPORA
“Lost Futures: Journeys into the Jewish Diaspora” is an exhibition of photographs by Chrystie Sherman. Some 25 images document her recent travels to once-thriving Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union, Central Asia, India, Cuba and North Africa. The stories of these communities’ struggles to survive in the face of poverty, discrimination and emigration are…
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Newsdesk September 5, 2003
Crash Victims Plan Suit Relatives of passengers on the Libyan jetliner shot down by Israeli fighters in 1973 say they intend to demand financial compensation from Israel equivalent to the sums Libya has agreed to pay the families of the Lockerbie disaster, according to an Egyptian report quoted in the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot. The…
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Everybody’s Fiddler
The Marc Chagall retrospective currently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art includes some of the artist’s most arresting pieces, from the flying lovers in “Above the Town” to the “White Crucifixion” (Jesus is wearing a tallis!) to Moses leading his people in “The Crossing of the Red Sea.” And yet the most commanding…
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Lawmakers See Israel in Record Numbers
JERUSALEM — When members of Congress returned to their offices this week and were asked what they did on their summer vacation, a record number had a shared answer: I went to Israel. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican, made headlines for a strongly pro-Israel speech he gave to the Knesset at the…
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‘Bombay — Forty-five people were killed and at least 135 were wounded Monday by the explosion of two bombs placed in a pair of taxis in the heart of India’s commercial capital, the police said.” That’s from a front-page New York Times report on August 26. Further on we are told: “At the scene of…
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What Would Jesus Speak?
Probably no film in history has been written about as much before its public debut as Mel Gibson’s new movie about the last days of Jesus. Many of the critics and scholars who have seen it screened in advance have accused it of both antisemitism and historical ignorance — an ignorance all the more appalling…
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Jewish Organizations Absent at Civil Rights Rally
In 1963 leading Jewish groups lined up to support the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a climactic moment in the civil rights movement. The president of the American Jewish Congress, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, delivered an address that chief march organizer Bayard Rustin would later claim was the event’s “greatest speech,” eclipsing even Martin…
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