At first glance, when police discovered a camper vehicle packed with explosives and containing a list of Jewish targets near Sydney, Australia on Jan. 19, it appeared that they had foiled an unprecedented antisemitic terror plot. Indeed, police led the public to believe that’s what had happened, an impression that was maintained for weeks. In […]
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There’s an ignoble tradition of falsified memoirs. “The Hitler Diaries,” a forgery published in 1983, fooled even a Hitler expert. “Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years,” published in 1997, was sold as a survivor’s testimony but turned out to be a hoax (the part where the author was raised by wolves might have been […]
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(JR) — An Oscar for “A Real Pain” wasn’t Jesse Eisenberg’s only win this week — he also received citizenship in Poland, where he filmed the movie about reckoning with one’s family’s Holocaust history. Polish president Andrzej Duda handed citizenship to Eisenberg at a ceremony in New York on Tuesday. “I am pleased that people […]
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The BDS movement and Israel’s right-wing culture minister agree on one thing: “No Other Land,” the Israeli-Palestinian documentary that just won the Oscar for best documentary, is anathema. One says the movie is a smear on Israel. The other says it subtly works to perpetuate Israeli crimes. And those two campaigns against the film have […]
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When Haroun got the phone call he had been waiting on for almost 10 years, he told the caller to hang up. It was too risky for a Jew in Iran to take such a call — authorities could be monitoring his phone. “Call me back on WhatsApp,” he said, putting faith in the messaging […]
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It’s nearly Purim — this year, the holiday begins on the evening of Thursday, March 13 — and there’s no shortage of family-friendly ways to spend this joyful Jewish holiday, including costume parties, art exhibits, carnivals and playful tellings of the Purim story. But if you’re looking for something a little bit different, you could bring the […]
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Today is Fat Tuesday — also known as Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday — which marks the end of Carnival and the beginning of Lent, a solemn period observed by many Christians during the 40 days leading up to Easter. If you’re not in New Orleans — where Mardi Gras marks the end of weeks of […]
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An endless Passover seder takes center stage in “One Little Goat: A Passover Catastrophe,” by writer Dara Horn and illustrator Theo Ellsworth, award-winners who teamed up for a humor-filled, time-travel graphic novel for young people. The tale of an epic seder — it drags on for six months — joins a new crop of children’s […]
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Fifteen years after its last issue was printed, the Gen X Jewish media darling Heeb Magazine is making a comeback. In its early-2000s heyday, Heeb (yes, like the slur for Jewish people, but with the subtitle “the New Jew Review”) was probably the only outlet you could turn to for an interview with the Beastie Boys, […]
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Adrien Brody nabbed an Academy Award Sunday for his portrayal of an architect in “The Brutalist,” marking the second Oscar for the Jewish actor. Both awards for best actor in a leading role came for Brody’s portrayal of Holocaust survivors. In 2003, he received the best actor for his performance in “The Pianist,” in which […]
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