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A Wagner 'Ring' that's sustainably powered
MUNICH, Germany — Wagner's "The Ring of Nibelung" is no picnic. The epic four-evening mythic drama is the macho challenge with which operas prove themselves. It practically did in Los Angeles Opera when the company finally got around to mounting...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Festive Events, The Happiest News!, Arts and Culture
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Low expectations for Obama's Israel visit
President Obama will arrive in Israel on Wednesday for his first visit since being elected in 2008. We wish him the best, but frankly, we have very low expectations. Indeed, it's hard to figure out why he's making the trip at all. The peace process...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Religion and Belief, Hamas, Likud, John Kerry
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Pope Francis fosters good relations, Jewish groups say
Pope Francis won praise from Jewish leaders after his election this week to lead the Roman Catholic Church, a promising sign for future relations between two faiths with a troubled history. Several Jewish leaders said the new pope, who is from...
Tags: Judaism, Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Francis I, Argentina
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Review: 'Hava Nagila' a lively portrait of the Jewish song
The short and sweet documentary "Hava Nagila (The Movie)" is a lively portrait of what is arguably the most ubiquitous Jewish song or, as one observer wryly puts it, "the kudzu of Jewish music." Though perhaps best known to recent generations as that...
Tags: Judaism, Music, Religion and Belief, Entertainment, Glen Campbell
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Leo? Pius? Pelagius? New pope will send message through name
The name chosen by the next pope will be his first decision -- and the first clue to how he will lead the Roman Catholic Church. Once a pontiff is elected in the Sistine Chapel, he is asked which name he will use. The last pope, Benedict XVI, said he...
Tags: University of New Hampshire, Stephen Colbert, Religion and Belief, World War I (1914-1918), Roman Catholicism
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Letters: Memories of the Holocaust
Re "Youngest on Schindler's list," Obituary, Jan. 14 It is sad to learn of Leon Leyson's passing. He was a true mensch, a generously giving man. For the last 15 years or so, except this last one, Leyson spoke to students in my Cal State Fullerton...Tags: Obituaries, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, California State University, Fullerton, Human Interest
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Review: 'Lore' a distinct coming-of-age tale in Nazi Germany
For both audiences who admire it and the protagonist who lives it, the intense, emotional "Lore" is a picture from life's other side. While stories dealing with the suffering surrounding World War II and the Holocaust are a dramatic staple, "Lore" flips...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Judaism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Entertainment
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Florabel Kinsler dies at 83; social worker aided Holocaust survivors
After World War II, social workers typically urged Holocaust survivors to forget their horrific wartime experiences and get on with their lives. That struck Florabel Kinsler as a foolish and impossible order. During a decades-long career, the Los...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, New York University, Bronx (New York City), Heart Failure, Religion and Belief
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Oscar 8-Ball: Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained'
Can a movie that New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick called "basically a three-hour homage to 'Blazing Saddles'" manage to pull in a few Oscar nominations? Time to check in with the Oscar 8-Ball, that magical portal into the minds and hearts and, in...
Tags: Leonardo DiCaprio, Steven Spielberg, Gold Standard Incorporated, Entertainment, Lincoln (movie, 2012)
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Leon Leyson dies at 83; youngest survivor on Schindler's List
Among the 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by German industrialist Oskar Schindler was an emaciated 13-year-old boy named Leon Leyson, who had to stand on a box to reach the machinery in the Krakow factory where Schindler sheltered him and his family....
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Religion and Belief, Obituaries, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Coming back to life after the Holocaust
"Happy birthday!" my mom and her first cousin will wish each other on Sunday, even though neither was born on Jan. 27. Rather, it's the anniversary of their new lease on life, of the day the Soviet Red Army liberated them from behind the barbed wire of...
Tags: Judaism, CNBC (tv network), Religion and Belief, Ceremonies, Tuberculosis
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Thursday's TV Highlights: 'The Big Bang Theory' on CBS
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES 30 Rock: After seven seasons Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin bring down the curtain on their hit comedy (8 p.m....
Tags: Entertainment, Charlie Sheen, Gabriel Macht, Ashton Kutcher, Israel
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