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When New York Times reporter Andrew Jacobs heard that the Four Seasons Lodge, a Catskills bungalow colony he’d featured in a 2005 article, was slated to close after one more summer season, he was heartbroken. For more than a quarter-century, the colony had served as a gathering place for some 50 lodgers, virtually all ...

• Stephan Kuhn, a member of Germany’s Green Party, was arrested in Dresden for blasting klezmer music outside City Hall, drowning out a neo-Nazi meeting. We’re not sure if this is a special rule for politicians, but his $210 fine went to a charity for victims of right-wing violence. [JTA]
• In other Green Party news, ...

Ehud Havazelet
There was a moment, back in the 1970s, when Ehud Havazelet thought he was about to find an answer to his biggest question in life. It was Holocaust Week at Ramaz, the venerable Manhattan yeshiva, and the rabbis had appointed Havazelet—a sophomore, often scolded for not working to his ability—head of the student committee ...

In The Fearless Vampire Killers, Roman Polanski’s campy 1967 comedy, Shagal, a philandering innkeeper, gets bitten by the fair-skinned Count Von Krolock, then returns home to taste the blood of a buxom chambermaid. She quickly pulls out a crucifix, but Shagal replies, “Oy! Have you got the wrong vampire!”
On its own, the joke rings a ...

Menachem Daum was working in geriatric research when his parents, Holocaust survivors from Poland, fell ill. He coped by making his first film. In Care Of was nominated for an Emmy, and Daum found a new career. With co-director Oren Rudavsky, Daum made A Life Apart: Hasidism in America. Their second collaboration, Hiding and Seeking: ...