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Of all Dr. Joseph Mengele’s infamous experiments on humans, it’s said none were more important to him than the stuff he did to and about twins. At Auschwitz, Mengele’s “investigations” resulted in little besides unspeakable suffering. But could Mengele’s legacy include something else? A new episode of the National Geographic Channel’s Explorer posits that Mengele ...

First, the mayor of Constanta, Romania’s largest port city, dressed up in a Nazi uniform and goose-stepped in a fashion show (he apologized yesterday). Later this week, a more complicated train of events also gave rise to concerns of anti-Semitism in this Eastern European country. On Monday, Romanian police raided a Bucharest fertility clinic and ...

If The Unborn isn’t Hollywood’s first Jewish horror movie, it’s got to be the first one in which an exorcism is preceded by the blowing of a shofar.
The film, which opens today, was written and directed by David S. Goyer, who wrote Batman Begins and the Blade trilogy. It follows Casey Beldon (Odette Yustman), ...

When I was growing up, the Holocaust haunted me. In a valiant attempt at control in a hostile and uncertain world, a world that was once capable (and could be again) of hunting down Jewish children and sending them to their fiery deaths, I took out my Lisa Frank notebook—a luridly colored affair with a ...