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I debated with myself about covering the world premiere of the musical A Letter to Harvey Milk at the Acorn Theatre (off-Broadway, on 42nd between Ninth and 10th Avenues) through June 30. No one likes to pan a thoughtful production with its heart in the right place. But the show’s flaws didn’t just make me sad; they made me angry.

Last week, I had the chance to attend the opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Alabama. The Memorial and the museum that serves as its ideological sibling are the products of the Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery-based organization committed to bringing justice to those wrongly incarcerated or sentenced.

On Tuesday, the Israeli government called off its contentious plan to deport thousands of African asylum seekers to other African countries.

State building is the core of US policy in Lebanon. As part of this chimeric policy, now over a decade old, Washington has been throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at Lebanon. The State Department proudly recalled last month at a donor conference for Lebanon in Rome, that in 2017 the US gave the Hezbollah-run country $250 million in assistance, and announced it will complete delivery of more weapons systems to the Hezbollah-aligned Lebanese Armed Forces as part of a $340 million aid package. Читать дальше...

The Anti-Defamation League will no longer help lead diversity training in Starbucks stores across America.

A new exhibition at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Americans and the Holocaust, explores Americans’ knowledge of and responses to Nazism, war, and genocide. An unstated question runs through the photographs, films, and artifacts: What explains FDR’s apparent indifference to the plight of the Jews? If he’d had complete freedom to act without concern for the political consequences, what would he have done? Visitors leave the museum without answers.

The blaring neon cover of Stealing the Show: How Women Are Revolutionizing Television by Joy Press is scattered with the names of the high-powered women—producers, directors, and writers—profiled inside: Diane English, Roseanne Barr, Amy Sherman-Palladino, Shonda Rhimes, Liz Meriwether, Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Lena Dunham, Amy Schumer, Jenji Kohan, Jill Soloway, and Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer. If you are me, you immediately start counting. And yup, seven of those 12 are Jewish. Given that... Читать дальше...

I was busy listening to Let Love Rule in my bedroom in the Omaha suburbs when my mother called us for dinner and proclaimed a spiritual quest. We’d already been Reform. Then we’d become Conservative. Apparently, she announced, this was no longer enough for our family. Here, in our house, we would be Orthodox. We wouldn’t have a shul, a rabbi, a community, or friends. But we would dress the part.