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...surrender the spotlight, Hanfstaengl held several press conferences throughout the week, entertaining questions from the pack of journalists hounding his path around Boston. On a stroll through Harvard Yard with reporters, Hanfstaengl was asked by a rabbi about concerns over treatment of German Jews. “I will say that the Jews’ situation in Germany is going to be normal before long,” he responded...
Sfar began drawing incessantly at the age of 3, when his mother died, using the creative outlet as a refuge, and hasn't stopped since. His greatest success is the graphic- novel series Le Chat du Rabbin (The Rabbi's Cat), which explores the life of an old rabbi and his daughter in an Algerian town that is home to both Jews and Muslims--all through the eyes of his irreverent, scrawny cat. "What I wanted to do is use humor and irony to explore the daily lives of religious folk," says Sfar, "which is a change from the rather...
...four Egyptians in New York. Ibrahim El-Gabrowny, Mahmud Abouhalima, Sayyid Nosair and Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman all had ties to al-Qaeda; all were convicted of involvement in the 1993 plot to bomb the World Trade Center. Habib joined protests at Nosair's 1991 trial for murdering a rabbi, tried to raise money for El-Gabrowny's defense, and raised $500 to buy medicine for Sheikh Omar. But his motives were purely charitable, Hopper says: "He would always stand up for the underdog." The increasingly devout Habib also joined the same hardline Muslim prayer group as Willy Brigitte, Murat...
...that updates the Flaubert classic, turning it into a satire on modern mores. In October the publisher will collect into a single volume the series Black Hole, Charles Burns' inky creepfest about a plague that infects teenagers during the 1970s. And the summer will see the release of The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar, a philosophically inclined French comic artist. Splashy comics from other publishers include Lost Girls (Top Shelf, summer) by Alan Moore (author of The Watchmen) and Melinda Gebble, an erotic fantasy that's pricey ($75) and edgy (the publisher says the work "seeks to reinvent pornography...
...really could sell a pork chop to a rabbi,” says Chopra, who credits much of his campaign’s success to Menendez...