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'Orchestra of Exiles'
The roots of the Israel Philharmonic are traced in director Josh Aronson's documentary, detailing how Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman spearheaded a four-year effort to spirit Jewish musicians out of Nazi Germany and assemble them into an orchestra....Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, DVDs
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Greatest generation the most entitled
One thing nearly everybody agrees upon is that the "sequester" is a silly sideshow to the real challenge facing America: unsustainable spending on entitlements. Ironies abound. Democrats, with large support from young people, tend to believe that we...
Tags: World War I (1914-1918), American Enterprise Institute, World War II (1939-1945), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Youth Organizations
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Civil rights group warns of rising danger from extreme right
Efforts to limit gun violence and to bring about immigration reform have led to a growing backlash from the extreme right, including the so-called patriot and militia groups, a civil-rights group said Tuesday. In its latest report, the Southern Poverty...
Tags: Terrorism, Shootings, Civil Rights, Timothy McVeigh, Labor Legislation
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What FDR said about Jews in private
In May 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the White House. It was 17 months after Pearl Harbor and a little more than a year before D-Day. The two Allied leaders reviewed the war effort to date and...Tags: Memorial Day, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Germany, World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Congress
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Couple recounts horror of childhood at Holocaust Remembrance Commemoration
dona@herald-mail.comMore than half a century ago, Howard and Esther Kaidanow met on a blind date in Philadelphia, both having traveled long and dangerous roads to survive the Nazi depredations of World War II in Eastern Europe. On Friday night, Howard, 83, and Esther, 77,...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Judaism, World War II (1939-1945), Religion and Belief, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Paris auction of concentration camp uniform halted amid outrage
PARIS -- The auction catalog entry for Lot 900 was short, simple and utterly shocking: "CONCENTRATION CAMP -- striped uniform of a political prisoner held in a German camp. Jacket in mixed wool, style grey and Nattier blue stripes. Identification number...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Auction Service, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prisons, Prisoners and Detainees
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It's A Gray Area: History's lessons support marriage equality
These thoughts might be controversial to some, but the issue is timely, and the moment to correct a series of injustices is now. Therefore, it is time for our country, and all of us in it, to recognize and enforce marriage equality. Before I go further,...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Slavery, Civil Rights, Social Issues, U.S. Supreme Court
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An Oscar lesson for Seth MacFarlane: Listen to Captain Kirk
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesOscars 2013 host Seth MacFarlane heard it, but he just didn't listen. Next time, though, he'd do well to obey ...... -
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala dies at 85; Oscar-winning screenwriter
For years, people who read Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's novels assumed she was born in India. She wrote about swamis, social climbers, duplicitous landlords and other characters from the Indian bourgeoisie who inevitably found themselves colliding with...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), John Schlesinger, Germany, Entertainment Events, England
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Movie secrets are there, in the script!
You know what "Star Wars" is about? I mean, really about? Vietnam. It's a critical allegory of the war: The Rebels are the scrappy Viet Cong, hastily assembled, devoted and relentless; the Empire is the American military, tripped up by an enemy using...
Tags: Movies, Star Wars (movie), Wicker Park, Columbia College Chicago, Transformers (movie)
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TV review: 'Spies of Warsaw' a game of drones
RedEyeThere's a reason "Spies of Warsaw" isn't airing as part of PBS' "Masterpiece Theatre." I expected the two-parter (8 p.m. April 3 and 10, BBC America; 2 stars out of 4) to be a tense thriller, what with the 10th Doctor Who, David Tennant, playing Col....Tags: David Tennant, Janet Montgomery, Doctor Who (tv program), England, Warsaw (Poland)
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Fraud counts allege using faith to prey on victims
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A central Indiana man banned from selling investments faces 10 securities fraud counts for allegedly using shared Christian beliefs to dupe clients out of more than $580,000. Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said Monday...
Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief
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