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Parade centers on the 1913 trial of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank. Photo by Joan Marcus By Rebecca SalzhauerMarch 16, 2023 Theres a moment near the end of Parade when Leo Frank sings the Shema. Surrounded by a mob intent on killing him, he quivers in a nightshirt, a sack tied around his waist for modesty, a noose around his neck.
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You do not expect the star of a musical about a man lynched by an antisemitic mob to be his wife. Especially when that man, Leo Frank, who was murdered in Georgia in 1915, is played, with his usual intensity and vocal drama, by Ben Platt. Yet in the riveting Broadway revival of the musical Parade that opened on Thursday at the Bernard B
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How well do modern theatregoers seeing Parade, at the BernardB. Jacobs, know the story of Leo Frank? Its been more than a century since Frank, the Jewish superintendent of an Atlanta pencil factory, was accused of the sexual assault and murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, railroaded into a guilty verdict, tantalized with the possibility of an appeal, then kidnapped from prison and lynched in Marietta, Georgia.
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JERUSALEM (AP) The Israeli military said Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket toward southern Israel Saturday evening.
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Astonishing: Atwood Responds to The Handmaids Tale Becoming Israeli Protest Symbol - Israel News Haaretz Destroying Zionism: Masses protest overhaul; rise in violence against demonstrators The Times of Israel Elite officers in Israels military plan walkout on Sunday in protest of judicial system overhaul PBS NewsHour
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The Holy Land and Us review this taboo-busting look at Israel and Palestine isnt afraid of controversy The Guardian
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Ahead of ghetto uprising anniversary, Polish and Israeli flags again fly over Warsaw The Times of Israel
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(JTA) Earlier this month the New York Times convened what it called a focus group of Jewish Americans. I was struck briefly by that phrase Jewish Americans in part because the Times, like the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, tends to prefer American Jews
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A new report published last week by the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism found that an all-time high number of white supremacist propaganda incidents occurred in the United States in 2022, eclipsing the previous years record total of 4,876 by nearly 2,000. Our data shows, the ADL wrote, a 38 percent increase in incidents from the previous year, with a total of 6,751 the highest number of white supremacist propaganda incidents ADL has ever recorded.
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The medical genetics of Jews have been studied to identify and prevent some rare genetic diseases that, while still rare, are more common than average among people of Jewish descent. There are several autosomal recessive genetic disorders that are more common than average in ethnically Jewish populations, particularly Ashkenazi Jews, because of relatively recent population bottlenecks and because of consanguineous marriage (marriage of second cousins or closer).[1] These two phenomena reduce genetic diversity and raise the chance that two parents will carry a mutation in the same gene and pass on both mutations to a child. The genetics of Ashkenazi Jews have been particularly well studied, because the phenomenon affects them the most
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