The Rescuer

Varian Fry led the effort to save Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, and thousands of other European intellectuals from the Nazis. Why was he forgotten?

What ‘Schindler’s List’ Is Hopeful About

The Rebutter

Listless

Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List is both a moral and an aesthetic disaster, an embodiment of much that is wrong with American-Jewish life

Faustian Bargain

The singular horror of the Holocaust is being lost in exchange for enshrining rare moments of inspiration and universal narratives of suffering

Sundown: Meet the New Boss (of al-Qaida)

Plus Palin’s ‘Bird-Nose,’ and more

Daybreak: Iranian Talks Produce More Talks

Plus Israel and Turkey near deal, and more in the news

Top Ten for the Ninth of Av

Movies for the Mourning

Daybreak: Abraham’s Children Squabble

Plus ‘Schindler’ lands ice dancers in 10th, and more in the news

Sundown: Foxman Loves ‘Basterds’

Plus Norman Finkelstein, crazy college kids, and more

Israeli Skaters Perform to ‘Hava Negila’

And tonight, the ‘Schindler’s List’ theme. Kidding?