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• The Anti-Defamation League’s Abraham Foxman called for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds to be … honored with an Academy Award. [HuffPo/ADL]
• Norman Finkelstein, the notorious writer (his prime shtick is, he’s the son of survivors who compares Israel to the Nazis), has been trying to secure speaking venues in Germany. [JPost]
• Long Island’s Holocaust Museum ...

As Quentin Tarantino’s movies have always been heavily laden with allusions to the history of film, and as his new one, Inglourious Basterds, takes the director’s passion for self-referentiality to new heights, placing cinema itself in the center of the plot and portraying it as mankind’s metaphorical and literal salvation, it is perfectly fair to ...

• George Soros’s International Crisis Group published a report on Israel’s religious right, acknowledging its “deep roots” but calling for the settlements it backs to be “reined in”. (The report notes that the 10 percent of Israelis, but 20 percent of Israeli first graders, are ultra-Orthodox.) [Arutz Sheva]
• Israeli rabbis, including the Chief Sephardic Rabbi, ...