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    Rediscovering Lincoln’s Jewish Connections

    NYC exhibit sparks memories of my father’s love of the 16th U.S. President

    byRoslyn Bernstein
  • Still of Djimon Hounsou in the 1997 film Amistad. (DreamWorks)
    Still of Djimon Hounsou in the 1997 film Amistad. (DreamWorks)
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    ‘Amistad’ and Spielberg’s West African Moses

    The 1997 film looks back to the biblical Exodus and ahead to Abraham Lincoln

    byGabriel Sanders
  • Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.(VisitingDC)
    Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.(VisitingDC)
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    The Last Witness of Lincoln’s Assassination

    Samuel J. Seymour, who died in 1956, was five when he went to Ford’s Theater

    byAdam Chandler
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    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine)
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    Oscar Night Medley

    Billy Crystal is long gone, but the Academy Awards medley need not be! The Tattler sings of 2012’s best films.

    byRachel Shukert
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    Tablet Goes to the Oscars

    What if Lincoln, Life of Pi, and other Academy Award-nominated films got sequels starring Jewish characters?

    bySteve Brodner
  • Schultz (Christoph Waltz) and Django (Jamie Foxx) in Django Unchained.(Andrew Cooper/The Weinstein Company)
    Schultz (Christoph Waltz) and Django (Jamie Foxx) in Django Unchained.(Andrew Cooper/The Weinstein Company)
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    Hollywood’s New Shoah

    The Golden Globes and Oscars reward Lincoln and Django. Are slavery movies the new Holocaust flicks?

    byRachel Shukert
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo of B’nai Jeshurun Jono David; pamphlet cover Library of Congress; Raphall portrait from A Century of Judaism in New York by Israel Goldstein [B’nai Jeshurun, 1930])
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; original photo of B’nai Jeshurun Jono David; pamphlet cover Library of Congress; Raphall portrait from A Century of Judaism in New York by Israel Goldstein [B’nai Jeshurun, 1930])
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    New York’s Pro-Slavery Rabbi

    Congregants gathering at the famously liberal B’nai Jeshurun may not know about a dark chapter in its past

    byHoward B. Rock
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