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...Barça, as the team is known, is nearer and dearer to my heart, ever so slightly. My love for the team sprang from my love of the city. A cousin of mine had fought for the republic in the Spanish Civil War. Why would a Polish Jew, who had never before set foot in Spain, journey across Europe to take up arms with the Catalans? As a boy, I began reading about Barcelona's resistance to Franco and developed a romance with the city. During my teens, I finally made a pilgrimage to Catalonia. It was the week before...
...sake of a match. But Barça is nearer and dearer to my heart, ever so slightly. My love for the team sprang from my love of the city. A cousin of mine had fought for the republic in the Spanish Civil War. Why would a Polish Jew, who had never before set foot in Spain, journey across Europe to take up arms with the Catalans? As a boy, I began reading about Barcelona's resistance to Franco and developed a romance with the city. During my teens, I finally made a pilgrimage to Catalonia. It was the week...
...comic self-promotional character he played called "Me, Al Franken" - announced that he might run for President. In 2008, he will most likely run for U.S. Senator from his home state of Minnesota. As he says of his presumed opponent, Norm Coleman, "I?d be the only New York Jew in the race who is actually from Minnesota." For now, Franken writes best-selling Right-baiting books and hosts a daily three-hour show on Air America Radio, a perch from which he inveighs against the White House and Congress and promotes virtually any Democrat running for virtually anything...
...SALVADOR LITVAK: In Hollywood you can make a living without ever getting a movie into theaters, and after several years of that I became frustrated. I decided to tackle a small project, a dinner party movie. I was going set it during Thanksgiving, but I am an observant Jew, and I realized that there are no Passover movies. THC: Were you concerned that your film would not have appeal for non-Jewish audiences? SL: I wasn’t concerned about that. I believe that too many movies speak to nobody’s experience because they try to speak...
...writing and literature in America is, to me, to teach my students to be curious about people who are different from them. Indeed, one of the great pleasures of my life in America has been to befriend such a variety of others?from a woman raised as a Hasidic Jew to a black Southerner who, until his 20s, had never eaten with a white person. An openness to others is, of course, equally key for nations. For centuries, China paid dearly for its determination to close itself off from the outside world. Today, with China emerging as a more global...