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Culture Jian Ghomeshi’s Comeback Is The Worst Possible Passover Podcast
With Passover looming, it is a fine time to meditate on the idea of exile. As we know from the Haggadah, we were exiled in the land of Egypt, enslaved by the Pharaoh, and eventually liberated and returned to our native land in Israel. We remind ourselves of the story year after year, of the…
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Fast Forward BBC Yanks Documentary Claiming Story of Jewish Exile From Palestine Is ‘Myth’
An Israeli-born filmmaker is slamming the British Broadcasting Corp. for pulling his documentary on the Jewish exodus from Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Ilan Ziv said in a blog post on April 27 that the BBC exhibited “a mixture of incompetence, political naivete, conscious or subconscious political pressure and ultimately, I believe, a lack of courage…
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Culture Ariel Dorfman Sees Pitfalls in Exile’s Return
Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentant Exile By Ariel Dorfman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 352 pages, $27 Ariel Dorfman has an ambivalent relationship with Chile: He is attracted to it and repelled by it in equal measure. As is clear from his handful of confessional narratives, the ambivalence makes him restless. But it also gives…
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