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Honor Thy Parents

Blythe Danner, David Lascher and Kevin Zegers star in \”A Call to Remember.\”In \”A Call to Remember,\” which airs on Aug. 30 on STARZ! and Aug. 31 on the encore cable channel, we meet David and Paula Tobias (Joe Mantegna and Blythe Danner), survivors who lost their first spouses and children in the Holocaust. They are, nevertheless, attempting the semblance of a normal life in suburbia, raising two boys who want only to assimilate, to become Americans. The younger ditches bar mitzvah practice for Little League; the older brother yearns to move out of his parents\’ home and partake of the 1960s counterculture. Then comes the telephone call that will change their lives forever. Paula learns that one of her lost sons is, in fact, alive and living in Poland. The aftermath nearly tears the family apart.\n

Straight Talk About Blacks and Jews

Among Jews, the subject of black-Jewish relations inevitably brings to the surface two impassioned, if not unrelated sentiments: a liberal nostalgia for the integrated social activism of days gone by and an embittered cataloguing of the latest anti-Semitic soundbites to come out of the mouths of black leaders.

Switzerland’s

About the time one is tempted to feel a wee bit sorry for the Swiss over the barrage of flak they\’re now getting, along comes a new probe of the country\’s conduct during World War II to set the blood boiling again.

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