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The Setup, a short film about Jewish dating by 25-year-old Modern Orthodox filmmaker Leah Gottfried, was described to me by its producers as “Friends but with Jews” and “Srugim but in New York.” The film, which won an audience award for Best Short at the Washington Jewish Film Festival, is also serves as the pilot episode for Soon By You, a new web series that depicts the lives of six Modern Orthodox twentysomethings dating in present-day New York City.

My mother looked her doctor straight in the eye. “You’ve got to let me out of here,” she said. “I’m building 36 luxury condos in Malibu.”

People of a certain age and background take for granted that Where the Wild Things Are is a beloved, indelible relic of their childhood. But if it was beloved by me when I was a child, I’ve no memory of it.

Kellen Kaiser was raised by two lesbian couples in the San Francisco Bay Area, as she recounts in her new memoir, Queerspawn in Love. But the book also focuses on a romance that began when she was in college, and a former Hebrew school classmate—a young man named Lior who’d made aliyah and joined the IDF—returned home on leave. In this excerpt, Kaiser goes to visit Lior during a particularly tense time in Israel.

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On Feb. 6, 1937 the SIS, the British Secret Intelligence Service, popularly known as MI6, wrote a report headlined “Nazi activities in Northern Africa.” Part of the report was forwarded to the British internal security organization MI5 some two weeks later. The information from SIS came from a German informant in Paris who claimed to be working for a German emigrant organization sending volunteers to Spain, which was at the time engulfed in a bloody civil war. According to the informant, the Nazis... Читать дальше...

One of the most affecting evocations of the Holocaust on film is the Hungarian director Bela Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies, which came out in 2000. The movie, and the book on which the film is based, Lazlo Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance, isn’t directly about the Holocaust, and has no characters that are particularly coded as Jewish. It is instead a study of mob psychology, and of the moral and intellectual conditions that enable the mob. Appropriately for Yom HaShoah, Werckmeister... Читать дальше...