Even for an international film producer and inveterate traveler, Arthur Cohn has covered a lot of territory recently.\nDuring the last week in October, the winner of a record five Oscars and producer of \”The Garden of the Finzi-Continis\” and \”Central Station\” was feted in Shanghai at his very own \”Arthur Cohn Day\” by the Chinese government and film industry.
I am always surprised when Israeli officials tell me how much they depend on America\’s Jewish leaders for support in the United States.
America and Israel have an odd, new ritual. Israeli leaders come here to present their message.
Isaac submits without struggle to the twisted leather straps that bind him. He is a helpless partner in this odd dance of death. Abraham reaches for the knife to slit his son\’s throat when mercifully, an angel calls out to stop the slaughter. A ram is to die instead of the boy.
When Roberto Benigni won the grand prize at Cannes for his Holocaust tragicomedy, \”Life is Beautiful,\” he rushed to the stage and kissed the feet of juror Martin Scorsese.
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