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Film & TV Did he just say ‘shiva?’ ‘Moon Knight’ delivers its most Jewish episode yet
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Culture Moon Knight’s Star of David necklace was easy to miss. It was also a watershed moment for Marvel.
Amid a blur of hieroglyphs, ankhs and sarcophagi, it was easy to miss a more subtle symbol glinting from Oscar Isaac’s neck in last week’s installment of “Moon Knight.” Unless you happen to be Jewish and watching for signs of Jewish life. In the final minutes of the episode, Isaac’s Marc Spector wakes up in…
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Fast Forward Synagogue bomb plotter fights for religious right to wield Thor’s hammer, compares it to Star of David
They say only the worthy can wield Thor’s hammer. Someone who planned to blow up a synagogue probably doesn’t meet that criteria. Richard Holzer, a Colorado man and professed neo-Nazi, sentenced to 20 years in prison for plotting to explode Temple Emanuel in Pueblo, Colo. is now under supervised release following a 2020 plea agreement….
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Culture He made Moon Knight Jewish. He doesn’t care if Disney+ has other ideas.
Moon Knight – aka Marc Spector, aka Steven Grant, aka Jake Lockley, aka the vessel of Khonshu – has an identity crisis. At least some of the time, that crisis is a Jewish one. Stretching over many comic runs and iterations, from his first introduction as a silver-clad mercenary in a 1975 issue of “Werewolf…
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Culture What Yiddish (and the Forward) are doing in the new ‘Spider-Man’
Everytime Spider-Man flirts with the fickle multiverse he encounters a couple of constants. The first is that a version of Spider-Man exists in every reality. The second is that Jews do too. Even, it would seem, the Jews who write for this very Jewish paper. In “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” Jews are everywhere. As David…
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