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…F or most knitters, picking up knit- ting needles and winding the yarn through their fingers is a very therapeutic activity. For 12-year- old Lauren Mondry of Bloomfield Hills, it is a doubly therapeutic act, because the hats she knits she also gives away to children suffering from cancer. Lauren, who will celebrate her bat mitzvah at Temple Israel March 29th, brainstormed with her parents, Mitchell and Diane, to come up with a meaningful mit...…
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…Arts I Entertainment At The Movies The Film No One Wanted The film 'Max" has been drawing criticism for its "human" portrayal of a young Hitler. NAOMI PFEFFERMAN Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles N of far into the arduous jour- ney of making Max, Menno Meyjes' controversial film about the early life of Adolf Hitler, John Cusack debated with his father, a World War II veteran. "He said, 'John, this is a worthy piece, but it disturbs ...…
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…Troubling To Some It didn't happen, although the very idea of a young Hitler movie has since troubled some Jewish leaders. "A film about the young Hitler is only half the story, which isn't truthful history," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance. "Next we'll have the young Saddam Hussein, which won't bother to mention the Gulf War." Rachel Jagoda, director of the L.A. Museum of th...…
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