Harvey Blume
“I’m trying to get people to be at ease with the incredible amount of variety in the United States.”
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This is a film for another moment in time, an imaginary if not necessarily utopian moment when being Jewish is less roiled and bedeviled from within and without.
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The blogosphere might be very useful as propaganda or as therapy. But it’s not journalism.
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Some pithy quotes to keep in mind for the New Year.
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Literary critic Harold Bloom passed away at the age of 89 two days ago; here’s an illuminating interview with Bloom from 2005.
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“I’ve been beaten. I know what that’s like. They say, who has been a nail, can learn to be a hammer.”
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Is it all, from here on out, to be about Daenerys v. John Snow for the Iron Throne?
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Shtisel offers a humane glimpse into the lives of people who would normally be shrouded from me by all sorts of religious and political barriers.
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Police Violence Commentary: Another NYPD Murder — Two Decades Ago
To be killed — as in murdered — by police you don’t necessarily have to be a person of color.
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