Jewish conspiracy theory: the satire. “If the Jews control the media, why don’t we give ourselves better press?” Jon Stewart quipped recently on The Daily Show. If Jewish conspiracy theory is central to modern anti-Semitism, jokes about Jewish power are increasingly a staple of Jewish irreverence. The latest example is Marc Levin’s documentary Protocols of Zion, produced [...]
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Proust, Kafka, Orwell. . .if hyper-intellectual 21st century geeks have their say, the name Joss Whedon will someday be right up there with those dead guys. Creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Serenity and Firefly, the genre king is one of those rare artists whose work hits both low and high, embraced by teenage fans and philosophers alike. [...]
Read More» Posted by josh | 0 commentsHanging on the wall of my room when I was a kid was Nike’s “Ice Man” poster–San Antonio Spurs legend, George Gervin wearing a silver jumpsuit and sitting on an icy throne. There was “Chocolate Thunder,” which I could hardly bring myself to ruin by piercing the corners with pins, featuring a dazzling Darryl Dawkins [...]
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Chameleon in the Sun The Ebb and Flow of An Acting Paragon Photographed by: Kurt Iswarienko Written By: Joshua Neuman in the distance, the perfect turquoise of the andaman sea drifts calmly towards an impossibly white shore as I approach the resort villa of 39-year old Scottish actor Ewan McGregor on the island of Phuket in southern [...]
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All of us have a photo of ourselves that’s hard to reconcile with who we are in the present. For me, it’s the one from high school where I’m wearing bowling shoes, tattered overalls, and a black-and-white checkered bandana. I can’t remember what I was thinking at the time. I looked like a circa-‘97 Pauly [...]
Read More» Posted by josh | 0 commentsLong before the giant mall usurped the American urban landscape, Hallmark was cheapening our age-old religious traditions and turning nuanced theological messages into platitudinous feel-goodisms to be bought and sold in the marketplace. Out of a singular, sinister force, Hallmark conspired to transform a suffering servant into a jolly present-giver and a fundamentalist victory into [...]
Read More» Posted by josh | 0 commentsIn October of 2000, my then 20-year-old brother Jonathan was sent to the oncology unit of Massachusetts General Hospital from the Tufts University campus infirmary after a month of persistent head and neck aches and a “suspicious” blood test. While in the waiting room, he stopped a nurse to ask what the word “oncology” meant. [...]
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