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...philosophical argument about evil, the subject matter isn't usually more profound than Rob's treachery on Survivor. But CBS tapped deeper passions when it announced its flagship mini-series for the May sweeps: a biography of the young Adolf Hitler from adolescence through his rise to power. Jewish leaders charged that the mini-series might make Hitler sympathetic, by showing him out of the context of the Holocaust, or blame his evil on an unhappy youth. In the New York Times, Maureen Dowd suggested that the network was using the project to court young viewers. Says CBS president Leslie...
...discovered through Nizar that shouldn't be the case." It was a moment of great symbolism for Hassan, a Palestinian director who carries an Israeli passport, because it brought together communities long divided by mutual suspicion. But the two audiences watching the documentary at the same time were not Jewish and Palestinian. The viewers - in Nazareth and Beirut, Lebanon's capital - were all Palestinian, members of a house divided against itself. Hassan's film, which screened last week in Cairo and will be shown this week in Zurich and Barcelona, explores the aftermath of fighting between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian...
...human butts with ears, suddenly a hot commodity. Many of Hrebejk's characters are ambivalent - capable of great heroism and craven cowardice, all while displaying an uncanny knack for survival. In Divided We Fall, which Hrebejk considers his best film, the main character has second thoughts about hiding his Jewish friend and eventually - without turning him over - joins the Nazis to protect his family. "Some consider this excessive relativizing," Hrebejk says. "But this is how I see people. Tragicomedy and ambivalence are part of life." Screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky, a high school classmate of Hrebejk's who wrote...
Fish said she was upset by what she found and discussed the issue with other Jewish students at the Divinity School...
German companies are watching nervously as a federal judge in New Jersey prepares to rule on a case that could reopen a floodgate of Holocaust - related litigation. The suit was filed by the children of Günther and Fritz Wertheim, who ran a thriving Jewish chain store before fleeing Nazi Germany. Believing their assets worthless, they sold to a German businessman in 1951 for $18,400. In doing so, they lost prized Berlin real estate, according to the $500 million suit against KarstadtQuelle, Germany's biggest retailer, which now owns the property. The case threatens a 1999 accord designed...