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  • Listen to the only known recording of Freud speaking.

  • Watch a previously unseen Beastie Boys video from the unaired third season of “Chapelle’s Show.”

  • Director David Cronenberg will take a turn in front of the camera as a crazed scientist on the Syfy show “Rewind.”

  • The New York Times’ Dennis Lim talks to the Supreme Leader of Wadiya.

  • The International Writers’ Festival at Jerusalem’s Mishkenot Sha’ananim will include meetings with Palestinian authors.

  • The Israeli film “The Law in These Parts,” about the Israeli justice system in the occupied territories, has won a special jury prize at the Hot Docs film festival. Read our review of the film here.

  • The Spielberg family has honored 95-year-old Arnold Meyer Spielberg with its first Inspiration Award from the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation Institute.

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