The National Society of Film Critics picks
Waltz With Bashir as the year's
best film.
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On
Slate,
dispatches from the Holocaust Archives.
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The economy's impact on Antwerp's
Jewish-dominated diamond trade.
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Listen to
Barrack 18, about prisoners who counterfeited bills for the Nazis.
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Israel assembles its first team for the
World Outgames.
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“Now you have tough-looking goyim playing Jews, and that's progress.” The
nebbish declines.
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Adam Kirsch on
Hannah Arendt and
Franz Kafka.
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An art installation based on the Holocaust film Stanley Kubrick
never made goes up.
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America’s only left-handed, gay,
Jewish Congressman gets profiled in the
New Yorker.
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A Rabbi harassed by a KKK member lets him move in and eventually
converts him.
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Why
Palm Beach was Bernard Madoff’s mark: The duped fence their
jewels.
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Commentary visits Vilna, once the “
Jerusalem of Lithuania.”
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A very young Steven Spielberg
chats with Andy Warhol.
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Tensions between kosher and non-kosher meat processors in Colorado will make it to the
stage.
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The
L.A. Times talks with Liev Schreiber about
Defiance.
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The Israeli consulate
Twitters.
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Holocaust-
related films
Defiance and
Good open in New York and L.A.;
Good’s Jason Isaacs
talks with the
L.A. Times.
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Fallout from the fake Holocaust memoir, plus an
excerpt.
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The
New Yorker tags along with two rabbis who make sure
China’s kosher products are really kosher.
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Philip Roth’s next novel is about an aging hero who embarks “on a
fantastically kinky relationship with a young lesbian.”
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A
slide show of art made for the
Jewish theater in Russia during the 1920s and ’30s (including, but not limited to, Chagall).
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Slate develops a
taxonomy for Holocaust films, identifies five types.
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The
last shul in Detroit.
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Bernard Madoff’s
literary predecessors.
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Publisher scraps
printing of
dubious Holocaust love story.
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The
publicity push for
Defiance, the last Holocaust film of the season,
begins.
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Debra Winger
chats with the
Guardian.
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Waltz with Bashir opens,
gets well
reviewed all
over.
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A rabbi’s son
spends a year practicing Christianity, becomes a better Jew.
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Former con man turned rabbi
talks about getting conned by Bernard Madoff.
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Lighten Up
Wolves at the Door
Zionist Princess
Intimate Stranger
The Banality of Reading
