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...Shlomo Pinsky is an extremely pious, temperate, Orthodox Jew whose only worldly desire is to win the lottery. Every day he prays to God for help. After many years of prayer but no lottery payoff, Shlomo becomes disillusioned. He asks, “God, why have you forsaken me? I have always followed your laws, I’ve always been a pious man, but you haven’t helped me with the only thing that I’ve asked...
...Wilder's view of the human condition would crawl out from under it. Nearly 40 years ago, critic Andrew Sarris wrote, "Billy Wilder is too cynical to believe even his own cynicism." Today we can see that Wilder was less a cynic than a premature realist. An Austrian Jew who left Germany in 1933 and who lost relatives in Auschwitz, he earned the right to be a little sour on human nature...
...nearly 57 years after the war ended, and the accused are dying out. Last year there were two trials, both involving very elderly men. A court in Ravensburg in southern Germany sentenced former SS officer Julius Viel, then 83, to 12 years in prison for shooting dead seven Jews as they dug trenches at the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Judge Hermann Winkler said that neither the passing of years nor Viel's exemplary life since the war lessened the gravity of the offense. Viel died in February. And Anton Malloth, a former SS guard, was jailed...
...world by now knows too well the story of the two peoples, Jew and Arab, warring over a narrow strip of land, a dry and sacred place between the River and the Sea. Their struggle was decades old even in 1947, when Israel fought its way to independence against the combined might of the Arab world, and the wars and intifadas since built up a great weight of hopelessness and woe over the Middle East, so that throughout the Cold War decades the very words Israel and Palestine conjured images of blood and suffering and intractable, undying hatred...
...parents and the community. That’s much harder to do when your frame of reality is so fundamentally changed,” says Ann E. Chernicoff ‘03, who moved 3,000 miles from her native Berkeley, Calif., and went from being a casual Reform Jew to a committed member of the Hillel community. “If you’ve always been told that you belong to this tradition, there’s a place to turn, at least initially, and to say, does this have anything to say to me? Can this help...