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Cannes: With 'The Congress,' Ari Folman votes for new audacity
CANNES, France -- Few independent directors have won as many plaudits for their visual inventiveness as Ari Folman. Five years ago, the Israeli first-timer came to Cannes and caught the film world’s attention with his combat piece “Waltz...
Tags: Waltz with Bashir (movie), Film Festivals, Harvey Keitel, Robin Wright, Israel
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Why a Holocaust center in the O.C.?
If you were wondering, well, so was I: how is it that Elie Wiesel, the renowned Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor and author, came to be an annual fixture on the campus at Orange County’s Chapman University, founded as a Protestant...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Judaism, Nobel Prize Awards, Entertainment Events, Human Interest
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Holocaust films get personal with descendants of Nazis
The Holocaust has long been a deep and disquieting source of material for filmmakers, especially documentarians. As firsthand accounts of World War II naturally dwindle, though, cinematic inquiries on the subject have been shifting into more personal...
Tags: Human Interest, Israel, Lore (movie), Stanley Kubrick, Religion and Belief
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A spin through a world where bicycles rule streets
In bike-unfriendly cities such as Los Angeles, people who love cycling speak in wistful tones about a faraway place where the bike reigns supreme. Go to Amsterdam, they say. In that mecca of the bike, you will find special roads set apart for cyclists,...
Tags: Judaism, Automotive Equipment, Pursuit Cycling, Manufacturing and Engineering, Book
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The boy behind Kristallnacht
On the night of Nov. 7, 1938, at the German Embassy in Paris, a 17-year-old Polish Jew named Herschel Grynszpan gained access to the office of a low-ranking Nazi named Ernst vom Rath by promising to turn over an "important document." Instead, Grynszpan...
Tags: France, Germany, Genocide, Olympic Games, Massacres
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Elie Wiesel, history's witness
It was a fine April day last week that found Elie Wiesel at Chapman University; it was a fine April day too, 58 years earlier, when the gaunt, teenage Wiesel found himself alive and suddenly free to walk out of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In the...
Tags: France, Refugee, Germany, Judges, Human Interest
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In Israel, Chuck Hagel has a one-word refrain: Friend
JERUSALEM -- Not long ago, Chuck Hagel’s past comments about Israel nearly torpedoed his nomination as Defense secretary. In his first visit here since winning confirmation, he’s sticking to one word in particular: “Friend." “I...
Tags: Chuck Hagel, Elections, Human Interest, Israel, John Kerry
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In Jerusalem, activist hopes to restore Gypsy pride
JERUSALEM — Growing up poor and motherless in the slums of Jerusalem's Old City, Amoun Sleem dropped out of school at age 7 after her teacher repeatedly singled her out as a Gypsy, inspecting her hair for lice in front of the class and calling her...
Tags: Judaism, Social Issues, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Customs and Tradition, Discrimination
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New museum of Jewish history opens in Warsaw
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews opens Friday in Warsaw, partly funded by the Polish government. It’s located in the area that was once the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, in what was Nazi-occupied Europe. The museum aims not just to...
Tags: Judaism, Museums, Warsaw (Poland), World War II (1939-1945), Music
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Debating FDR and the Holocaust
It wasn't surprising that Rafael Medoff's April 7 Op-Ed article about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's private comments on Jews facing persecution in Europe drew spirited responses (though I do admit that I was a little rattled that most of the letters...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. Army, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Judaism, Immigration
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Justin Bieber-Anne Frank uproar: Are we being too hard on Justin?
Had Anne Frank been a modern-day teen -- instead of a tragic Jewish figure in hiding during the Holocaust -- would she have been a Belieber? And is it appropriate for Justin Bieber to hold out that hope? The teen pop sensation, on world tour, was moved...
Tags: Victoria's Secret, Robert Downey Jr., ABC (tv network), Anne Frank
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FDR's Holocaust lapse
Responding to Rafael Medoff's Op-Ed article Sunday detailing FDR's reaction to Jews facing persecution in Nazi Germany, reader Robert Ouriel wrote in a letter published Friday that "as an American and a Jew, I found [Medoff's] criticism of Franklin D....
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Refugee, Germany, Immigration, George W. Bush
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