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  • Outside Juliano Mer-Khamis' Freedom Theatre in Jenin today.(Saif Dahlah/AFP/Getty Images)
    Outside Juliano Mer-Khamis' Freedom Theatre in Jenin today.(Saif Dahlah/AFP/Getty Images)
    Israel & The Middle East section icon
    Foretold

    The Israeli actor and activist Juliano Mer-Khamis, born to a Jewish mother and a Palestinian father, was murdered in the West Bank yesterday, but his legacy of peace, art, and cooperation must live on

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • Freida Pinto as the title character in Julian Schnabel’s Miral.(Jose Haro/The Weinstein Company)
    Freida Pinto as the title character in Julian Schnabel’s Miral.(Jose Haro/The Weinstein Company)
    Belief section icon
    Unclean

    Julian Schnabel’s controversial film Miral, like this week’s parasha, is a meditation on impurity. But while the Torah decries the risks of impurity, the movie extols its virtues.

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • Frieda Pinto in Julian Schnabel's Miral.(Jose Haro/The Weinstein Company)
    Frieda Pinto in Julian Schnabel's Miral.(Jose Haro/The Weinstein Company)
    Arts & Letters section icon
    Piece Plan

    Julian Schnabel’s Miral, a sympathetic portrayal of four Palestinian women over nearly 50 years, is neither what its defenders claim nor what its detractors allege. It is a collection of fragments that ultimately doesn’t hold together.

    byRachel Shteir
  • From the Miral poster.(IMDB)
    From the Miral poster.(IMDB)
    News section icon
    Sundown: Controversy Over Schnabel Film

    Plus what Abbas says and whom he says it to, Neil!, and more

    byMarc Tracy
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