Jon Stewart has responded to Rick Sanchez?who was fired from his job as CNN anchor after he called Stewart a bigot and questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority. Stewart referenced the former CNN anchor’s infamous anti-Semitic comments?at Comedy Central’s “Night of Too Many Stars” at New York’s Beacon Theater, according to The Hollywood [...]
Jewish mass grave to be excavated in Germany
April 25, 2009 Leave a Comment
On February 2 1945, just seven months before the end of World War II, more than 753 sick Jewish men and women are thought to have been killed by the Waffen SS at the Nazi camp of Lieberose in Brandenburg state. Efforts to excavate the site, which is one of the last undiscovered mass graves of Jews killed by Nazis, began on Wednesday after a long court battle over land rights.
Defiance
Jan. 6, 2009 1 Comment
What makes the film “Defiance” so unique is that without ever seeing concentration camps and with barely any physical presence from the Germans, director Ed Zwick was able to tell the story of the Jews’ plight during World War II almost as masterfully as Stephen Spielberg did with “Schindler’s List.”