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‘Munich’ Portrays Real World Issues

David A. Lehrer December 22, 2005

In recent days, several pundits have criticized \”Munich,\” the new film by director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner, for drawing a \”moral equivalency between the Israeli assassins and their targets — both explicitly … and implicitly.\” Furthermore, they argue that it has inaccurately portrayed the Israeli avengers as morally conflicted about their mission to eliminate the perpetrators of the Munich massacre.

‘Munich’: The Missing Conversation

Rabbi Marvin Hier December 22, 2005

For me, the most telling moment in Steven Spielberg\’s \”Munich\” was the final scene, when the young, distraught Mossad team leader, Avner, takes a walk along the East River with his Israeli case officer, Ephraim, the man who supervised his mission.

He’s Got the Look

Amy Klein December 22, 2005

When Sam Feuer was a boy, he fell in love with \”E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial\” — and with performing — since he lived as an outsider in two cultures. Born in America to Israeli parents, the family moved to Israel when Sam was 9.

‘Munich’ — a Risky Move for Spielberg

Ivor Davis December 1, 2005

The billboards for Steven Spielberg\’s new film \”Munich,\” which opens Dec. 23, will soon be sprouting on buses, benches and boulevards around the nation. The image is simple and stark. A lone man sits gloomily in a dark, heavily draped hotel room, his body sparely illuminated by the light of a single window. His shoulders are hunched disconsolately and a pistol dangles from his hand. He seems very much alone.

Letters

Jewish Journal November 10, 2005

Letters to the Editor.

Shoah Foundation Makes USC Its Home

Tom Tugend October 27, 2005

With a mixture of elation and nostalgia, filmmaker Steven Spielberg last week formally turned over his Shoah Foundation, with 52,000 videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, to the University of Southern California.

Community Briefs

Amy Klein September 8, 2005

Jews aren\’t the only ones fasting this High Holiday season.

Two other religious organizations, one Christian, one Muslim, have joined with a Jewish one to call on Americans to take part in a nationwide fast of reflection, repentance, reconciliation and renewal from sunrise to sunset on Oct. 13.

‘Fear of Unknown’ Enters Pop Culture

Tom Tugend September 4, 2005

This Sunday, as America commemorates the fourth anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, films, television, plays and books are just beginning to grapple seriously with the phenomena of suicide bombings and terrorism.\n\nThe lag time between a cataclysmic experience and its absorption into the popular culture is hardly surprising.

The Circuit

Jewish Journal August 25, 2005

Fun Way to Fund, Kirk Comes West, In The Beginning, Saluting Six, Student Art Aliyah, A Woman\’s World and Tackling The Taboo.

Survivor Voices Come to Classrooms

Julie Gruenbaum Fax August 25, 2005

In the backlot at Universal Studios, somewhere between the lake where Jaws lurks and the courthouse square where Michael J. Fox sped back to the future, researchers in nondescript trailers are finishing up one of the most ambitious projects involving the Holocaust.

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