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...Known as "The Man Without A Face" - for many years, Western spy agencies did not even have a photo of him - Wolf was the son of a German Jewish doctor and playwright, a Communist who had to flee Hitler and ended up in Moscow. He attended elite party schools in the Soviet Union, was trained for undercover work, returned to Germany as a journalist covering the Nuremburg trials and joined the East Germany spy service at its inception. In 1952, because his pungent Stalinism convinced Russian leaders of his loyalty, he became its chief - and brilliant...
...might have fire in his belly, but he also had a foot in his mouth. Allen's infamous "macaca" gaffe was followed by a series of muddled apologies and non-apologies that elevated the obscure racial slur into headline status. Then, amid speculation about Allen's possible Jewish heritage, Allen told a reporter that questions about that heritage amounted to "aspersions" on his character. Never mind that the chatter turned out to have a concrete source: Allen's mother was, in fact, Jewish, though Allen took pains to emphasize he was not raised in the faith. "I still...
...prom. Math does concede that “in that dress...yeah she did look like a slut.” But Math does not agree with all of Friedman’s musings. “I don’t go to church and my dad is Jewish,” Math says, responding to the claim that he hails from “classic Shaker stock—good old-fashioned...Protestants.” In addition, Math says the claim that he peaked as a high school quarterback in GQ lacks veracity...
...synagogue for Yom Kippur services a couple of weeks ago, and I was trying to get an idea for the next film I was going to make. There was a Torah that was almost dropped in the synagogue. According to Jewish tradition, if you drop the Torah during a service, the entire congregation has to fast. So that was the idea for my film right there...
Horovitz got started on the screenplay right away, and again drew from his own Jewish experience...