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Culture In ‘Curb,’ not even Alexander Vindman is safe from Larry David’s warped worldview
After 11 seasons of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Larry David, the master of his own moral universe, finally found a worthy foil in America’s other most upstanding Jew. On the show’s season finale, which aired Sunday, David met Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, the man who blew the whistle on President Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
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Opinion Children at my daughter’s school were forced to reenact the Holocaust
Last week, the librarian at my daughter’s school — Watkins Elementary School in Washington, D.C. -— instructed a class of third graders to “act out” the Holocaust. She instructed the children to pretend they were on a train going to a concentration camp and to pretend to shoot each other, dig mass graves and die…
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Culture ‘Holocoste’ sweatshirt taken down by Ukrainian Jewish group
Thousands of stores sell knockoff brand merchandise. But one decided to take it a step further by bringing antisemitism into it with a “Holocoste” sweatshirt, featuring a crocodile like the Lacoste brand’s logo. Elina Katz, a program coordinator for Project Kesher in Ukraine, noticed the sweatshirt for sale on a major e-commerce site called Prom,…
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Culture The most powerful Jewish artist you’ve never heard of
A massive exhibit at one of Miami’s leading art museums is reclaiming a place in art history for an iconoclastic but little-known Jewish artist and Holocaust survivor. . The show, “My Name Is Maryan”, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in North Miami, explores the legacy of the Polish-born artist Maryan, who survived an…
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Books From a Budapest attic to the New York Knicks: A Holocaust survivor’s family journey
For the grandson of a Holocaust survivor, the irony of Dan Grunfeld’s first contract offer to play professional basketball was a bit on-the-nose. It was not just that it came from Germany. The team that wanted him was from Oldenburg — the first state to put the Nazi party in power. Grunfeld’s new book, By…
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Yiddish World Lecture: How Yiddish became one of the languages used at the POLIN Museum
On Monday, December 27, folklore expert Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett will discuss the history of how Yiddish was included as one of the languages utilized at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. The talk, to be presented in English, is part of the week-long annual festival, “Yiddish New York” to take place…
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News With an apology, Germany returns reparations to Holocaust survivor’s kin
A German official has apologized to the daughter of a Holocaust survivor for demanding she return 72.55 euros that the government had mistakenly paid out to her deceased mother after she died in January. And Germany will return the money — about $80 — to the daughter, who had written a check for the amount…
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Opinion 2022 Olympians have a chance to protest the Chinese Uyghur genocide — just like brave athletes did during the Nazi games in 1936
President Biden’s decision to withhold U.S. diplomatic participation from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, while allowing athletes to take part, confronts America’s pole-vaulters and shot-putters with a familiar moral dilemma: Should sports and politics mix? It’s a shame that the president has decided to limit his response to Chinese human rights abuses to such a halfway…
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