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Were any of these stories almost too painful to report? As a Jew, [I found that] Hitler was very difficult to write about. Every other story here is a tribute and a celebration of someone's life, so we struggled with whether it was appropriate to include him. Ultimately we agreed Hitler could not be overlooked...
...mentioned in the Talmud, but female masturbation is not,” she said. After reading a steamy passage from the thirteenth century about the sexual effects of circumcision, Ruttenberg looked up from her notes, asking the audience, “See how great it is to be a Jew?” Michael Simon, associate director of Harvard Hillel, said that his organization often works with the Harvard Bookstore to bring in speakers Hillel could not necessarily attract alone. In the past, the team has co-hosted events for such speakers as writer Michael Chabon and diplomat Dennis Ross...
Larry is a familiar figure from Jewish literature that dates back to the Old Testament and up to Bruce Jay Friedman's 1962 novel Stern, about a Jew who moves to the suburbs and endures a plague of abuse from neighbors and nature. The men at the center of Philip Roth's novels may rage and flail, but Larry doesn't dish out insults, he takes them. When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies, just suck it up and hope you don't explode. That's Larry's method of coping...
...terrible of Hollywood, has always attracted criticism for the violence and racism with which his characters go about their lives. World War Two era France, the setting for his latest film, brings with it inherent controversy. This is only strengthened by a cast of characters that includes a Nazi Jew-Hunter, a Jewish fugitive intent on exacting revenge on her German oppressors, and a battalion of Jewish soldiers whose sole purpose is to kill (and scalp) as many Nazi soldiers as possible. Its morals are indeed at times debatable, but its numerous merits are not. The eponymous Nazi hunters...
Pilger, Pam •"Heil Hitler!" is yelled by at a supporter of health care reform who reacts badly because he's an Israeli Jew...