The intensifying crisis of Iran\’s nuclear program is bringing into sharp relief the problems created for Israel by the radical foreign policy of the Bush administration.
\”Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity\”: Traditional Judaism feared and distrusted this child of the enlightenment. Although prominent Jewish thinkers, from Moses Mendelssohn to Solomon Maimon to modern Zionists, have claimed him as their own, every deliberation on Spinoza wonders — is he a Jewish thinker?
It\’ll be nostalgia time at the Ford Amphitheatre when Harold Arlen\’s greatest tunes come alive again for the concert \”The Wonderful Wizard of Song.
Michael Halperin, who wrote \”All Steps Necessary,\” a new Holocaust-themed play being staged by the Inkwell Theater, concurs with Milgram. Taking place just after Kristallnacht, his play dramatizes a meeting of Nazi leaders and their formal response to the fallout from the pogrom.
Yaniv Berman\’s 2005 film \”Even Kids Started Small,\” depicts the nightmarish takeover of a suburban junior high by the pupils
Amid the celebrities and paparazzi crowding the Cannes Film Festival last week, Katriel Schory roamed the bustling boulevard Croisette like a proud parent. \”Israeli cinema has never had such a presence here,\” Schory, director of the Israel Film Fund, said via the cell phone that seems attached to his ear.
For Josh Bernstein, host of The History Channel\’s \”Digging for the Truth,\” myth-dispelling, artifact-hunting and body-straining adventure are part of his regular routine.
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