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Film & TV How film brought Nazis to justice at Nuremberg
'Filmmakers for the Prosecution' shows how two Jewish brothers searched Europe for evidence of the Holocaust
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Culture At the birthplace of the ballistic missile, a concert for peace
In its first appearance abroad since 2019, the New York Philharmonic performed at a German music festival located in a former Nazi munitions factory.
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Fast Forward GOP nominee for Pennsylvania governor makes new Nazi analogy, this time about the Jan. 6 attack
Doug Mastriano implied that he sees “parallels” between the Capitol riot and the 1933 Reichstag fire through which Hitler grabbed power
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Fast Forward Supreme Court sides with Jewish family in case over Nazi-looted art
The Cassirers have been fighting for years to reclaim the plundered painting, now hanging in a Spanish museum.
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Culture Barry Manilow gives us harmony and Hebrew in a sometimes hammy musical
If “Memory” wasn’t already a marquee name in showtunes, Barry Manilow probably would have used the title for a song in his new musical. Now playing at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, “Harmony,” about the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of German singer-comedians, is also all about memory – both history’s short recall for a popular…
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Culture Barry Manilow on dueling cantors, Levy’s Rye and his musical’s New York debut
Barry Manilow never meant to become a pop star, and his Grammy, Emmy and Tony-winning career as a songwriter is a source of perennial tsuris for his lyric-writing partner Bruce Sussman. If you ask them, “Mandy” came, gave and (forget what you heard) did some taking. That breakout hit diverted the pair’s original ambition: writing…
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Culture Al Franken says America feels like Nazi Germany in the ’30s. Is he right?
When it comes to democracy and being Jewish, former Senator Al Franken knows whereof he speaks. But, given his other vocation as a comedy writer, some critics will surely think his latest remarks – likening America today to early Nazi Germany – are a joke. In the most recent episode of “The Al Franken Podcast,”…
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Culture How the U.S. wined and dined Nazis, then destroyed the evidence, in Netflix doc
In the wake of World War II, the world united in an attempt to bring top Nazi officials to justice. Though many attempted to flee, they were hunted down; some were assassinated by Mossad, and others were prosecuted in military tribunals and widely-publicized hearings such as the Nuremberg Trials. Those who evaded capture remained the…
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