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...pray to them." Other lecturers just want to leave. In 1944 the Soviets deported all Chechens to Central Asia. Thousands died, and the survivors were allowed home only in 1957. This time, said Kerimov's colleague Said Yushaev, the Russians want to force Chechens to go, "like the [Jewish] diaspora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Ruins of Grozny | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

Omen Saudi Arabia has banned Pok?mon. The games, according to the fatwa, have "possessed the minds" of children, promote pantheism and are"suspiciously Jewish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...should tell her about the news of the just and the good. I should relate the story of Billings, Mont., which in the Christmas season in the mid-1990s was invaded by members of the Klan and other subhumans. The intruders knocked over headstones in the Jewish cemetery, tormented an old black minister in his church, painted swastikas on the homes of Native Americans. Then they tossed a cinder block through a Jewish child's window, which was signified by a menorah. So the local paper printed up a full-page picture of a menorah, which the predominantly Christian people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The News About Jessica | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...there anything new for us to experience, as theatergoers or as students of history, from more rehashing of the horrors? To be sure, there's some commercial calculation in the theater's Holocaust obsession. This a subject, after all, that appeals largely to older Jewish theatergoers, one of Broadway's most loyal constituencies. ("The Gathering's" pre-Broadway run included stops in Ft. Lauderdale and Palm Beach, Fla.) Yet the Holocaust has hardly been a surefire audience grabber. Even the well-reviewed 1998 Broadway revival of "The Diary of Anne Frank" was a box-office disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway and Beyond: The Holocaust on Stage | 3/30/2001 | See Source »

...Great Game, with Sabu truckling to The Man and, as so often in films of the era, an astonishingly blithe and racist narrative wherein all enemies of the British colonials are mad cult leaders with snake pits and strange gods. The mad cult leaders are played by scrawny Jewish character actors darkened with shoe polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Best Picture for 1950 Is.... | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

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