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In the opening scene of the film adaptation of X-Men (2000), a young boy is in line with his family at a concentration camp. Wrenched away from them, he reaches out for his mother. SS guards hold him back. This is the origin story of Magneto, one of comics’ most complicated supervillains. As a Holocaust survivor, he’s seen humanity at […]

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A feminist rapper checks out how women were treated in the Torah. An advocate for the disabled discusses Moses‘s speech impediment. A gay activist (who’s also a Jewish educator) wrestles with the condemnation of homosexual sex. And it’s all animated. Each week, a cartoon series called G-dcast broadcasts the weekly Torah portion using a simple formula: Narrators–different ones each episode–tell the […]

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Sarah Bernhardt flirted with the novelist Alexandre Dumas, posed for the painter Alphonse Mucha, had an affair with Victor Hugo, and was, in the late 19th century, the most famous actress in the world. Bernhardt was a character in her own right too. For several years, she slept in a coffin, claiming that it helped her identify […]

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