How extreme tolerance and existential rebellion can bring the high-minded to mistakenly embrace murderous lows

Pascal Bruckner, the French writer and New Philosopher, on his new book, his family’s Nazi sympathies, the rise of hatred in Europe, and the crisis of radical Islam

European cineastes clash with American ironists and shlock-meisters at the film-world’s biggest hoedown

Russian-born Julia Loktev’s haunting new The Loneliest Planet sends beautiful youth into the wilderness

‘The Possession,’ starring Matisyahu, fails to live up to the potential of Jewish horror films

Accused rapist, a Jew, decries ‘age-old witch hunt of a minority group’

Lindsay, Mel, and a Lesson in Yiddish

Director issues first self-defense since arrest

A haftorah of enemies, real and imagined

Novelist-provocateur thinks religion, not rape, to blame for director’s woes

With silence from Switzerland, everyone else debates director’s arrest

Fagin’s dearest companions have been villains and thieves. This time Roman Polanski makes him a victim.