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20 shares Faye Schulman lights a candle at a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at a UJA Federation building in Toronto in 2013. (Vince Talotta/Toronto Star via Getty Images via JTA) JTA — Faye Schulman, a Holocaust survivor who lost most of her family to the Nazis, joined a group of partisan fighters, and documented their work in photographs, died on April 24, The Washington Post reported Saturday. She was 101 years old. Schulman’s photographs often depicted the smiling faces of young partisan fighters, with Schulman at times at the center in ...

Operating in the forests of Eastern Europe, she wielded a camera along with her gun, documenting the partisan cause in riveting historical photographs.

Caisa Ankarsparre, center, in 'Exterminate All the Brutes.' | Velvet Film / David Koskas via HBO Raoul Peck’s new four-part HBO series Exterminate All the Brutes is a powerful, well-illustrated essay on racism. Peck skillfully tours us through twelve painful centuries of prejudice-based inhumanity toward the goal of wealth accumulation. Each of his episodes is about an hour long. Peck’s sometimes quite personal, subjective arguments, stunning photography, florid dioramas, and ample historical data are breathtaking and persuasive. The sweep of his observations shines a bright light on the...

As the United Kingdom honored Prince Philip, who died on April 9 at the age 99, with a gun salute, flags at half-staff and the many who paid tribute outside of Buckingham Palace, Sabbath prayers for the longest-serving royal consort were a bit different in synagogues across England. For decades, the blessings recited for the royal family—“He who gives salvation to kings … may He bless our sovereign lady, Queen Elizabeth, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh … and all the royal family”—were missing for the first time for Prince Philip. “There was a glaring omission,â€...

via HBO Form follows function in Paul Rudnick’s lively new theater piece “Coastal Elites”.  Rudnick (“Sister Acts”, “In and Out”, “Stepford Wives”, “Addams Family Values”), one of our most clever and amusing writers, digs a little deeper this time with a well-crafted theater piece consisting of five monologues which forcefully break the fourth dramatic wall, speaking directly to the audience. Each triptych is the product of the emotional plumbing of a single actor. Each deals with their own psychological state refracted through the present prism of pandemic. Despite and...