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Faith, not just gayness, informs filmmaker’s works

This has been a good year for filmmaker Ira Sachs. His new feature, \”Keep the Lights On,\” received a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival and won the prestigious Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. And while the intensely personal, autobiographical film centers on a tumultuous love affair between two men, Sachs believes audiences will relate to the human experience of relationships shared by all couples.

‘The Possession’ possesses the box office

“The Possession” is off to a devilishly good start at the box office, grossing $21.3 million — making it the second best opening for a movie on Labor Day weekend after “Halloween” in 2007, which brought in $30.6 million.

Romney/Ryan and the lullaby of lying

It shouldn\’t have taken Todd Akin\’s crackpot contraception comment to alert us that Paul Ryan thinks rape is just another \”method of conception.\”

Opinion: Jerusalem bullies need a dose of respect

Jerusalem\’s Zion Square, located in the city center, where rallies mobilize, concerts convene, street fairs assemble, and pedestrians abound, caught the attention of local media and became the topic weekend table talk when it was learned that 17-year old Jamal Julani, an Israeli Arab from east Jerusalem who went to meet a friend who was working at a local restaurant nearby, nearly died from a savage beating unleashed by a gang of Jewish \”tough teens,\” who were out cruising the streets, apparently looking for a victim.

A Shabbat prayer for the victims of the Sikh shooting

This prayer was written to recite for the victims and survivors of the August 5, 2012 shooting at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Rabbi Naomi Levy, spiritual leader of Nashuva, wrote the prayer on behalf of the Conservative movement\’s Rabbinical Assembly, which distributed it to congregations around the world.

Florence Appel Roth, 93

Florence Appel Roth, philanthropist and widow of entrepreneur Bernard B. Roth, passed away of natural causes on Tuesday, July 31, 2012 at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 93.

Biblical politics

Michael Walzer frankly announces at the outset of “In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible” (Yale University Press: $28.00) that he is approaching the Scriptures not as a biblical scholar but as a political thinker. “The Bible is, above all, a religious book,” he argues, “but it is also a political book.”

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