Superman taught me how to be a Cuban Jew - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The Man of Steel explains that he gets to “see and hear people discover and rediscover themselves all the time.”
Stay updated with breaking news from Secret Origin. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
The Man of Steel explains that he gets to “see and hear people discover and rediscover themselves all the time.”
I was Jewish to everyone but the Jews. That’s what it felt like to grow up the son of a Cuban mother and Jewish father. I looked exactly like my dad, with his curly hair and deep-set eyes, and I had his last name, Steinberg , stitched on the back of my baseball jerseys. But my Jewish friends and their parents ceaselessly reminded me that I was not really like him. Judaism comes from your mother, they said, so I couldn’t be Jewish. Isaac’s dad would have me over for dinner and have a laugh over my being “the fake Jew.” His wife would jokingly correct him, saying I was really more of...
Batman: The Animated Series still remains as one of the most iconic takes on the Dark Knight years after it graced our screens. But to get there, the team behind the show needed to lay out their grand plan for who their Batman should be—and reading through the guide they wrote ahead of the series gives us some fascinating insights.
…it’s the past moments that… …start unpeeling the onion to begin to reveal the secret origin of the kids… …who will become the Children of the Atom. The kids somehow are on board a spaceship as we start explore the past… …that hits some issues requiring the kids the abandon ship. They get into pods… …that jettison them back to Earth… …while they celebrate surviving; no reveal yet about how they got their powers, but we do see Gimmick painfully getting hers in a flashforward to the end the book. The Pulse: While we knew we needed to get a reveal of how the Children of t...