Jewish American Heritage Month

admin | March 21, 2024

Embed from Getty Images This Shabbat, the Shabbat before the Jewish holiday of Purim, religious Jews all over the world will flock to the synagogue to keep one of the Torahs commandments: to remember Amalek. The commandment in itself is not rare in Judaism. The verb remember appears in the Torah 169 times.

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admin | March 5, 2024

Amid backlash over his friendly interview with Jackson Hinkle, NewsNation anchor Chris Cuomo defended hosting the far-right conspiracy theorist and denied giving any deference to any kind of anti-semitism.

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admin | December 27, 2023

Claude Lanzmann, one of the greatest filmmakers ever, died Thursday in Paris, at the age of ninety-two. His 1985 film Shoah, the crucial cinematic confrontation with the Holocaust (a word that Lanzmann hated), changed the history of cinema with its absolute absence of archival footage, with its incarnation of history in the present tense as a first-hand, first-person act of political engagement

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