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Throughout her life, Rabbi Rachel Cowan spearheaded movements and innovated spiritual approaches to Jewish life. When she faced the brain cancer that caused her death in 2018, she again had much to teach others. A new film, “Dying Doesn’t Feel Like What I’m Doing” by documentarian Paula Weiman-Kelman that chronicles the last 18 months of […]
Al Pacino’s atrocious Yiddish accent is one thing. The laying-it-on-thick name of Pacino’s character, Meyer Offerman (with “Godfather”-like echoes of “I’m gonna make himan offer he can’t refuse”) is another. But an invented-out-of-whole cloth game of human chess, in which inmates of the Auschwitz camp were the game pieces and were killed when their piece […]
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – The Auschwitz Memorial has condemned the new Amazon mini-series about Nazi hunters. The museum said in a tweet that the human chess game invented for “Hunters,” in which the inmates of the Auschwitz camp were the game pieces and were killed when their piece was removed, is “Dangerous foolishness & caricature.” “Hunters,” which […]