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Behind the anti-flotilla video: A confederacy of dunces?

The video was so obviously a fake. It purported to show an American gay activist denouncing the planned Gaza flotilla after being turned away over his sexual orientation. But why would an American speak with such a thick Israeli accent? Why does the video begin with the subject setting up his own camera, home-video-style, and […]

Before the Bomb

Dai—the title of Israeli-American comic Iris Bahr‘s 2008 one-woman play–is a Hebrew word that means “enough.” Dai also sounds like an English word, die, which is a chilling and emotional summary of the play: It covers the final seconds in the lives of eleven people sitting in an Israeli café, just before a suicide bomber strikes. Over the course of the play, Bahr portrays […]

News Shticker: Aronofsky directs Chabon, Shakira hugs Shimon, Galliano pleads addiction

* Darren Aronofsky is set to direct a new HBO series written by Michael Chabon, author of many books with Jewish themes (like “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union”) . The series, titled “Hobgoblins,” is no exception: Variety describes the plot as “a group of con men and magicians who use their skills of deception to help […]

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Behind the anti-flotilla video: A confederacy of dunces?

Before the Bomb

News Shticker: Aronofsky directs Chabon, Shakira hugs Shimon, Galliano pleads addiction

Weisz weds Craig: Together they have played many Jews

The Book of Tobit

Anti-Semitism, Islamaphobia, my Sunday routine

Green Lantern’s Boss is Jewish

Heilman’s Week: 5 years for Shalit, Lithuanian justice, cutting circumcision

Feminist writer E.M. Broner dies at 83

Jeff Goldberg & the attack on Iran

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