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The Sephardic Reach, Through Cinema

The first Jews in New Amsterdam, as New York City was once called, were Sephardim from Brazil who had escaped the dangers of the Inquisition in the New World by heading north to the more tolerant air of the Dutch colony. They had knowingly recapitulated the trajectory of many Sephardic Jews before them who had […]

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Last Chance For Closure

Director Atom Egoyan on his new film ‘Remember’ — a take on memory and revenge, and a very different kind of road movie.

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