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The exterior of the house where three women who had disappeared as teenagers approximately ten years ago were found alive on May 7 in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by Pugliano/Getty Images
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Palestinians mark Nakba with West Bank protests
Thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank marked the 65th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel, which they call the “catastrophe,” with marches and protests.
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Filmmakers reveal magician’s secretive world
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What would my Israeli grandmother think?
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State 194: A Documentary About Palestine
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Spielberg directs kids to ‘iWitness’ history
In a video, a Holocaust survivor remembers how he had to kill the family dog as he faced deportation to a wartime ghetto, where there would not be enough food for humans and none for animals.
Reflecting on 20 years of ‘Schindler’
If Hollywood were a monarchy, Steven Allan Spielberg would likely be its king.
Bruce Cohen: A career full of ‘Silver Linings’
Hollywood’s history lesson: What counts when truth gets in the way
‘Homeland’ scores at Golden Globes
"Homeland," a television drama based on an Israeli program, won for best drama at the Golden Globes Awards.
Spielberg’s year? ‘Lincoln’ nabs 12 Oscar nominations
A fascination with Abraham Lincoln
Filmmaker Salvador Litvak has been trying to make a movie about Abraham Lincoln for 12 years, a dream that was finally realized with the completion of his independent film “Saving Lincoln.”
The first Jewish president? Lincoln, in the Abrahamic tradition
Abraham Lincoln has been dead for almost 150 years, yet suddenly he’s everywhere. At the Skirball Cultural Center, you can see an original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by Lincoln, amid an impressive array of founding American documents.
Jewish Entertainment Network: Members of the Tribe only
Deconstructing David Geffen
An Evening with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute
A close encounter with Steven Spielberg’s dad
For Arnold Spielberg's birthday in the late 1950s, his wife, Leah, gave him a Brownie movie camera. He had little chance to enjoy the present because it was immediately appropriated by his 13-year-old son, Steven.
Shoah Foundation presents inspiration award to Steven Spielberg’s father
The Four Seasons banquet room was teeming with Spielbergs, but for once it wasn’t producer/director Steven, nor sisters Nancy, Sue or Anne, who were in the spotlight.
About a dog, lost and found
Writer’s Guild to Honor ‘Extremely’ Talented Screenwriter Eric Roth
Jews at the Oscars [FILM TRAILERS]
Jonah Hill, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, ‘Footnote’ in Oscar finals
Spielberg, Allen garner Golden Globes
Opinion: A river runs through it: Answering Spielberg’s ‘Munich’
There is a scene at the end of Steven Spielberg’s controversial 2005 film, “Munich,” that disappointed a lot of Israel’s supporters. Spielberg’s camera caresses the dramatic Manhattan skyline, pans over the East River and ends hauntingly at the Twin Towers, which were still standing at the time of the film’s events.
Allen, Spielberg grab Golden Globe nominations
Famed directors Woody Allen and Steven Spielberg led the list of Jewish nominees for Golden Globe Awards.
Michael Fassbender on “Shame,” sadism, playing a Jewish supervillain and why he’s not in therapy
Spielberg in talks to direct Moses film
Steven Spielberg is in talks to direct a movie about the life of Moses.
Shoah archive expanding to include testimonies of Rwandan genocide
Rod Lurie On Dustin Hoffman and His Remake of Sam Peckinpah’s “Straw Dogs”
Spielberg purchases screen rights to WikiLeaks
Director Steven Spielberg has purchased the screen rights to the WikiLeaks story. Spielberg bought the rights to "WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy," written by Guardian journalists David Leigh and Luke Harding, the Guardian reported Wednesday.
The Circuit: USC Shoah Foundation Institute, AJC
Topping the marquee names at the gala for the USC Shoah Foundation Institute were founder Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg’s righteous foundation helps fund the Library Foundation’s ALOUD Interfaith Series
In 2008, Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Foundation donated $100,000 to the Library Foundation of Los Angeles to buy a collection of Jewish books for the Los Angeles Central Library.
Emmy Awards: Top Ten Jewish Moments
‘Waltz with Bashir’ Wins Coveted Golden Globe
When Crystal met Spielberg; A rabbi, a reverend and a pastor walk into a shul
When Billy Crystal met Steven Spielberg at the Oct. 22 Shoah Foundation dinner, the comedian had a beef with the filmmaker.
Hollywood conflicted on candidates as California primary date nears
Steven Spielberg, arguably Hollywood's most influential citizen, co-hosted a fund-raiser early last year that netted $2.1 million for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign.
A few weeks later, Spielberg joined DreamWorks partners Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen in throwing a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Clinton's chief rival for the Democratic nod, that yielded $2.2 million.
Spielberg has since formally endorsed Clinton and given the U.S. senator from New York the maximum donation of $2,300. But he has also contributed the same amount to Obama, a U.S. senator from Illinois, and the primary campaigns of Democrats John Edwards and Bill Richardson -- who has since dropped out of the race.
Briefs: They’re Jews first and Israelis second; Pope to soap offending trope
Collection of news briefs
Briefs: Mass Shoah grave discovered in Ukraine; Report: Israel wants to talk with Syria; German Jews decry aliyah push
News briefs.
Briefs: Spielberg to press Hu Jintao on Darfur; U of California vs. Shabbat; Weiss recall effort kicks off
Community briefs.
Briefs: Shoah Foundation broadens scope; OU essay contest offers Israel trips
Community briefs.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor.
Spielberg Gives $1 Million for Israel Relief
When the Righteous Persons Foundation, created and financed by Steven Spielberg, announced earlier this month that it was giving $1 million for relief efforts in Israel, including $250,000 to The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles crisis fund, the impact went beyond the donation itself.
Letters
Letters to the Editor.
Community Briefs
Even with Republican sponsors and a largely Republican audience, the panelists at a recent discussion on Steven Spielberg's "Munich" covered most of the spectrum from left to right.
‘Munich’: The Missing Conversation
For me, the most telling moment in Steven Spielberg's "Munich" was the final scene, when the young, distraught Mossad team leader, Avner, takes a walk along the East River with his Israeli case officer, Ephraim, the man who supervised his mission.
He’s Got the Look
When Sam Feuer was a boy, he fell in love with "E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial" -- and with performing -- since he lived as an outsider in two cultures. Born in America to Israeli parents, the family moved to Israel when Sam was 9.
‘Munich’ Portrays Real World Issues
In recent days, several pundits have criticized "Munich," the new film by director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner, for drawing a "moral equivalency between the Israeli assassins and their targets -- both explicitly ... and implicitly." Furthermore, they argue that it has inaccurately portrayed the Israeli avengers as morally conflicted about their mission to eliminate the perpetrators of the Munich massacre.
‘Munich’—a Risky Move for Spielberg
The billboards for Steven Spielberg's new film "Munich," which opens Dec. 23, will soon be sprouting on buses, benches and boulevards around the nation. The image is simple and stark. A lone man sits gloomily in a dark, heavily draped hotel room, his body sparely illuminated by the light of a single window. His shoulders are hunched disconsolately and a pistol dangles from his hand. He seems very much alone.
Letters
Letters to the Editor.
Shoah Foundation Makes USC Its Home
With a mixture of elation and nostalgia, filmmaker Steven Spielberg last week formally turned over his Shoah Foundation, with 52,000 videotaped testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses, to the University of Southern California.
Community Briefs
Jews aren't the only ones fasting this High Holiday season.
Two other religious organizations, one Christian, one Muslim, have joined with a Jewish one to call on Americans to take part in a nationwide fast of reflection, repentance, reconciliation and renewal from sunrise to sunset on Oct. 13.
‘Fear of Unknown’ Enters Pop Culture
This Sunday, as America commemorates the fourth anniversary of the World Trade Center attack, films, television, plays and books are just beginning to grapple seriously with the phenomena of suicide bombings and terrorism.
The lag time between a cataclysmic experience and its absorption into the popular culture is hardly surprising.
Survivor Voices Come to Classrooms
In the backlot at Universal Studios, somewhere between the lake where Jaws lurks and the courthouse square where Michael J. Fox sped back to the future, researchers in nondescript trailers are finishing up one of the most ambitious projects involving the Holocaust.
The Circuit
Fun Way to Fund, Kirk Comes West, In The Beginning, Saluting Six, Student Art Aliyah, A Woman's World and Tackling The Taboo.
The Dream Is Over
According to reports in various newspapers last week, NBC-Universal is contemplating acquiring DreamWorks' live-action feature-film division, or as it used to be called, their movie studio.
Spectator - Spielberg Keeps ‘Munich’ a Secret
In an honor-laden career, Steven Spielberg has never played for higher emotional and political stakes than in his upcoming film on the aftermath of the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli Olympic athletes by Palestinian Black September terrorists.
Not the Next ‘Passion’
A widely circulated Internet report that Steven Spielberg was planning to produce a trilogy of films exposing Christian brutality has been denounced as a hoax and "mean prank" by the filmmaker's chief spokesman.
Community Briefs
Producer-director Steven Spielberg pledged $1 million to aid Israeli terrorism victims and has named five Israeli and U.S. organizations as the initial recipients of the grant.
Susan Rubin ExploresSpielberg’s Childhood
Steven Spielberg has inspired dozens of biographies, none of them written with the filmmaker's consent.
Teach Your Children Well
After videotaping the testimonies of more than 50,000 Holocaust survivors during the past seven years, a foundation created by filmmaker Steven Spielberg will now shift its focus to an even more daunting task, a worldwide educational campaign against prejudice, intolerance and bigotry.
Hebrew Secret
The discussion was con-fidential when Roger Richman, attorney for Hebrew University of Jerusalem, met with Bonnie Curtis, Steven Spielberg's producer on "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence." Spielberg needed the university's help on his top-secret film, about a robot child who longs to become a real boy.
The Power of ‘Schindler’
To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, KCET and other PBS stations will broadcast Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List" at 8 p.m. April 19 and 21.
A Survivor’s Story
After we made "Schindler's List," more and more Holocaust survivors came up to me ,and every one of them said, "Now let me tell you MY story." And each story was different and compelling. - Steven Spielberg
Jazz With Jewish Roots
"George Gershwin Alone," the only one-man show ever permitted by the heirs of the composer for the commercial stage, began in the shadow of the Holocaust.
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