Out and About: Natalie Portman’s Baby ‘Aleph’; The Man Who Invented the Sexual Revolution

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Vanity Fair interviews comedian David Wain for the 10th anniversary of his cult comedy “Wet Hot American Summer.”
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The Smurfs have been said to be misogynist and anti-Semitic, but the screenwriter of the upcoming Smurfs movie is David Weiss, an Orthodox Jew.
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Natalie Portman named her child “Aleph.” Good grief.
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A new book looks back at Wilhelm Reich, the psychoanalyst who invented the sexual revolution.
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An interview with “The Arrogant, Self Satisfied [Julian] Schnabel”
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Is Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” the least Jewish film ever made?
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Where are all the Jewish super villains?