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...least regarded with some skepticism. And talk of a democratic Arab state "securing Israel's eastern flank" seems more than a little fanciful - those Arab states that have made peace with Israel are anything but democratic, and their citizenry is considerably more hostile than its leaders are to the Jewish State, and to the United States...
...Born in 1895, Larry claimed to be descended from the German-Jewish poet Harry Heine, the student of Hegel who converted to Protestantism and changed his name to Christian (!) Johann Heinrich Heine. His most famous poem, "Lorelay," set to music by Friedrich Silcher, has some of the melancholia (if not the elfin wit) that marked many Hart lyrics: "I do not know what haunts me,/ What saddened my mind all day;/ An age-old tale confounds me,/ A spell I cannot allay." And a quatrain Heine wrote for his wife Therese - "You're lovely as a flower,/ So pure...
...will that magically materialized, 30% of the money Hart's estate might earn from royalties was earmarked for Kron and his heirs. Another 20% would go to Hart's actor brother Teddy; but upon Teddy's death this portion would devolve to the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, a favorite charity of Kron's. Teddy's son Larry, Hart's namesake and only nephew, would be shut out after his father died. Smelling a rat - or, rather, two: Kron and Rodgers - Teddy and his wife Dorothy sued them both. The mess took years to clean up, during...
...Young Ones, appears in a 90-second ad dressed as Hitler to shout "Ein Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Euro!" (One people! One country! One euro!) The ad, which includes other celebrities arguing that it is not anti-Europe to be anti-euro, drew the wrath of commentators and Jewish groups, who called it offensive and predicted it would backfire by painting the campaign in xenophobic colors. But George Eustice, the campaign's director, insisted that "anyone who sees the clip in its context is not going to take any offense." He may be right - nearly. Before the launch, focus groups...
Though admittedly hard to believe, some people on campus have dared to express concern at the use of the word “holocaust” in such a context. “Being of Jewish descent,” said one student speaking on condition of anonymity, “I find it somewhat offensive that he would use such a public forum to wrestle with the history of a word like holocaust since it conjures up so many painful images and even memories for so many people...