Academy Awards
Terror and the Surveillance State on Film
Zero Dark Thirty and the Israeli documentary The Gatekeepers are up for Academy Awards. Only one should win.
Daybreak: Iran Denies Role in Burgas Bombing
Plus Syrian Druze are joining the opposition
Iran, Oscar Committee Both Hate Ben Affleck
From “Argo” to “Gangster Squad,” a celluloid news round-up
Israeli Documentaries Make Oscar Shortlist
‘The Gatekeepers’ and ‘Five Broken Cameras’ are being considered
Exonerating the Friedmans
Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki is trying to overturn Jesse Friedman’s 1989 Great Neck molestation conviction
Blackout in Tehran
Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been banned from making movies for the next 20 years. Here’s how he got around the mullahs.
Prize Fighters
Joseph Cedar’s Footnote pits a Talmudic scholar against his academic son in a tale equal parts midrash, riddle, and Israeli political tragedy
2 or 3 Things I Know About ‘A Separation’
The Iranian film beat the Israeli film and the Polish Holocaust film
Daybreak: U.S. Doubts Iran Bomb Program
Plus WikiLeaks makes another splash, and more in the news
Dictatorial
Sacha Baron Cohen has been warned not to commit any stunts at the Oscars. But why should he listen? It’s not as if he’ll ever win one.
Out of ‘In Darkness,’ Reflection
A response to Agnieszka Holland’s Academy Award-nominated film
Writing Footnote
Director Joseph Cedar on Orthodox Judaism, The Social Network, and the nightmare scenario behind his latest Academy Award-nominated film
Daybreak: Hopeless, Syrian Rebels Get Fiercer
Plus U.N. report refers to Gaza ‘collective punishment,’ and more in the news
How an Alabama Doctor Became a Rabbi to His Patients at a Groundbreaking AIDS Clinic
In his memoir ‘Positive,’ Michael Saag warns that our broken health care system is more dangerous than the AIDS epidemic
Leonard Cohen’s Long, Strange, Sometimes Tortured Road to Mastering His Own Sound
Liel Leibovitz, who has a new book out on the rock ’n’ roll poet, looks at how Cohen’s songs evolved from bleak to transcendent
‘Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah’: Inside 19th-Century Yiddish Letter-Writing Manuals
Correspondence templates taught Jews both literacy and how to be modern. A new anthology shows their entertainment value.
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- Spotlight On: Andrew Steinthal, Co-founder of ‘The Infatuation’
- Haim Rocks Out at Coachella
