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“Curb Your Enthusiasm” Finale, Reviewed: Larry David Gets the Last Word
8Apr By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

“Curb Your Enthusiasm” Finale, Reviewed: Larry David Gets the Last Word

On a late December night many years ago, I was riding around midtown cheerfully stuffed into the back seat of a taxi with two of my kids. One was around seven, the other around four. We passed the skaters and the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. We passed by the twinkling displays in the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue, and the clusters of people clutching shopping bags and peering in. There were Santas tolling bells for the Salvation Army, venders hawking blistered chestnuts, flocks of pedicab drivers, tree hustlers, carollers, the whole frenetic birth-of-Jesus, half-off-at-Macy’s phantasmagoria.My kids gazed out the window. A long silence set in. Finally, the four-year-old turned to me and said, “Daddy, why is there so much Christmas, not so much Hanukkah?” As I went about drafting an...
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Harvard Bans ‘Cisheterosexism’ but Shrugs at Antisemitism
8Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

Harvard Bans ‘Cisheterosexism’ but Shrugs at Antisemitism

What constitutes bullying and harassment at Harvard? A mandatory Title IX training last year warned all undergraduate students that “cisheterosexism,” “fatphobia” and “using the wrong pronouns” qualified as “abuse” and perpetuated “violence” on campus. But when I asked Harvard President Claudine Gay at a congressional hearing whether calls for the genocide of Jews violated the university’s rules on bullying and harassment, she answered: “It depends on the context.” Pressed further, she said it would qualify “when it crosses into conduct.” I received similar answers from the presidents of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 ...
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Why the Jewish Way of Living Matters
24Nov By adminNo Comments
Business

Why the Jewish Way of Living Matters

Nov. 23, 2023 12:15 pm ETJerusalemWhy do Jewish lives matter? Why do we suddenly care so much about Israel or Jewish survival? Is it merely from a nativist love of our own or a need to deny posthumous victories to Hitler? Is it only the Jew as eternal victim that we cherish? God forbid. “Never again” is never enough. What matters are not only Jewish lives, but the Jewish way of living.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Baltimore Jewish organization raising money for humanitarian help in Israel
10Oct By adminNo Comments
Money

Baltimore Jewish organization raising money for humanitarian help in Israel

BALTIMORE — A Jewish group based in Baltimore is raising funds for humanitarian aid after the attacks.The Associated: Jewish Federation of Baltimore is creating an emergency fund to help victims of the destruction."There is not a room you could go into in our Jewish community where people aren't reeling from what has taken place," said Marc Terrill, president of The Associated.Terrill tells WMAR he knows three people taken hostage by terrorists."There are three individuals who I know of, who I have a relationship with, that—it blows my mind—that they are now in the hands of terrorists," Terrill described, "and the question of whether or not they're even alive."Food, medicine, counseling—people there need all of it, he says, in light of the attacks.The weekend saw the largest single-day sl...
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Bradley Cooper Accused Of ‘Jewface’ In Leonard Bernstein Pic
16Aug By adminNo Comments
Entertainment

Bradley Cooper Accused Of ‘Jewface’ In Leonard Bernstein Pic

The trailer for Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro” has landed — to accusations of antisemitism.Cooper portrays legendary composer Leonard Bernstein in the upcoming biopic, which he also produced, directed and co-wrote. Bernstein, who died in 1990, was Jewish. While non-Jewish actors have portrayed Jewish figures before, Cooper’s use of a prosthetic nose is being slammed online as “Jewface.”“There was no need for Bradley Cooper to add an odd prosthetic nose ... to play Leonard Bernstein,” one person tweeted. “His own nose is longer! And I still would have preferred they at least give Jewish actors a chance to audition before automatically casting someone more famous.”Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman unfavorably highlighted what she called the “long tradition of non-Jews playing Jews” during an epis...
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