My Jewish Charlie Brown Christmas
The Peanuts special is the most overtly Christian TV holiday classic. So why does it speak to me so deeply?
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The Peanuts special is the most overtly Christian TV holiday classic. So why does it speak to me so deeply?
In the 1920s, composer-lyricist Cole Porter started inserting Jewish-sounding motifs into his songs. Was his invented Jewishness part of the array of disguises he assumed in order to escape his sexual identity?
From Anticolonial Movements to Black American Civil Rights to South African Apartheid December 11, 2020 It was dawn on the morning of November 4, 1979. The shimmering sun was just beginning to crest over the horizon of the Western Sahara when the small caravan of captured Spanish Santanas stopped after having traveled across the desert. About a dozen guerrilla fighters laid down their rifles, hopped from the cabs, got down on their knees facing Mecca, and began to pray. The two men left sitting in the cab, a Spanish journalist and an American named George Mills Houser, were both wrapped in th...