Will Oscar finally embrace Israel?
Tom Tugend
December 7, 2016
Some 85 countries — from Albania to Yemen — have entered a movie selection in pursuit of an Oscar for best foreign-language film.
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December 7, 2016
Protesters denounce Bannon appointment at Breitbart headquarters
Jewish Journal
December 7, 2016
More than 300 people — some carrying “Bannon = Goebbels” and “No hate in the White House” signs — marched to the headquarters of Breitbart News on Dec. 4 to protest the hiring of the organization’s former executive chairman, Steve Bannon, as chief strategist and senior counselor to President-elect Donald Trump.
Roger Waters takes stage at UCLA before controversial film screening
Eitan Arom
December 7, 2016
Roger Waters, one of the founding members of Pink Floyd, had been scheduled to answer questions after last week’s screening of the documentary “The Occupation of the American Mind” at UCLA.
Meant2Be: We outlawed the term ‘in-law’
Jewish Journal
December 7, 2016
For as long as I can remember, relatives, friends and acquaintances of mine have spoken disparagingly of their in-laws.
A question for progressive readers
Dennis Prager
December 7, 2016
Here’s a question for Jewish Journal readers and fellow Jewish Journal columnists who identify themselves as progressives:
The ADL director and the war against hate in Trump’s America
Eitan Arom
December 7, 2016
When Jonathan Greenblatt took the top job at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in July 2015, Donald Trump was an outside candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and a favorite punch line of TV pundits.
Steve Bannon, drain the swamp
Rob Eshman
December 7, 2016
I’m not one of those people who instantly jumped on the anti-Steve Bannon bandwagon.
Author sheds light on the menorah
Jonathan Kirsch
December 7, 2016
A Star of David may appear on the flag of Israel, but a much older symbol of Judaism and the Jewish people is the menorah, the seven-branched candelabrum that can be seen among the looted treasures of the Jerusalem Temple as depicted in the marble bas-relief on the Arch of Titus in Rome.
Faith and doubt: S.Y. Agnon’s Nobel Prize, 50 years later
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
December 7, 2016
On Dec. 10, 1966, Shabbat in Stockholm ended at 3:55 p.m. This gave Israeli writer S.Y. Agnon; his wife, Esther; and their daughter, Emunah, exactly 35 minutes to travel from the Grand Hotel to the Stockholm Concert Hall, where Agnon would receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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