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The Movie Exposing Israel's Marriage Scandal
Rarely does a film integrate a social and political message within a forceful drama as masterfully as Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem. The impossibility, for a woman, of obtaining a divorce without...
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What It Means to Be Jewish and French
Delphine Meillet, a French lawyer and mother of two whose Jewish family roots in France stretch back to the 16th century, watched the attacks this month in her country with trepidation. But she...
View ArticleWhy Hitchcock’s Film on the Holocaust Was Never Shown
Two women drag an emaciated female corpse along the ground, its head bouncing on the dirt. When they reach a large pit, they stop, give the naked body a quick tug backward to pick up momentum, then...
View ArticleQuora Question: Should Police Be Held to a Higher Standard?
Quora Questions are part of a partnership between Newsweek and Quora, through which we'll be posting relevant and interesting answers from Quora contributors throughout the week. Read more about the...
View ArticleMan Injures Wife, Kills Man, Self in Florida Mall Shooting
A man armed with "several pockets full of ammunition" opened fire at a Florida shopping mall on Saturday, injuring his wife and killing another man before fatally shooting himself, police...
View ArticleTech Giants Have a Few New Tricks for Stomping Startups
Call this: Revenge of the Suits.In technology circles, everybody knows startups are da bomb. They’re the disruptors, the innovators, the stuff of investor fantasies. We thank heaven entrepreneurs bless...
View ArticleTwo Planets Larger Than Earth May Exist Beyond Pluto
Out past Pluto, in a galaxy not that far, far away (ours, in fact), may lie two planets larger than Earth. Astrophysicists studying “extreme trans-Neptunian objects” (ETNOs) now believe that a “Planet...
View ArticleFive Killed in Second Day of 'Charlie Hebdo' Protests in Niger
At least five people were killed on Saturday in protests in Niger against Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, authorities said, bringing the death toll from two days of violence in the...
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ISIS Aims to Occupy Mecca
The recent early morning clash between a Saudi border patrol and extremists trying to enter Saudi Arabia from Iraq appears to be the latest indicator of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) intent to expand its...
View ArticleNew York Governor Cuomo to Lead Trade Mission to Cuba: WSJ
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is planning to lead one of the first trade missions to Cuba since the Obama administration loosened travel and trade restrictions on the Communist-ruled Caribbean island,...
View ArticleIt’s Not Prince Andrew We Need to Worry About, It’s Charles
Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, is a very lucky man. If it hadn't been for the appalling events in Paris last week, he would still be all over the front pages.Perhaps you've already forgotten why....
View ArticleWe Want to Believe: ‘X-Files’ Reboot Is Reportedly in Works
The truth is out there: On Saturday, two Fox TV executives confirmed that the network is in early conversations about ramping up the cult science fiction series The X-Files, which was a smash hit...
View ArticleGoogle CEO's Surreal Saudi Visit
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is headed over to Riyadh soon to deliver a keynote address at Saudi Arabia’s eighth annual Global Competitiveness Forum. Schmidt headlines a list of 50 speakers from 22...
View ArticleSome Carnivorous Plants Are Mostly Vegetarians
Behold the bladderwort. These plucky little plants — 200-plus species strong — are found worldwide, live in moist soil or within lakes, streams and wetlands, and have pretty flowers that resemble...
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Quora Question: What do Holocaust Survivors Think of Their Tattoos?
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The Oyster Shell Game
Two weeks before Christmas, in a serene Pacific inlet north of San Francisco, a small mountain of fresh oysters sat rotting in the rain. Kevin Lunny, the owner of the Drakes Bay Oyster Company, watched...
View ArticleEstimated 7 Million Attend Pope’s Mass in Manila
Pope Francis on Sunday closed out his trip to southeast Asia on a jubilant note: by holding an open-air Mass in Manila’s Rizal Park. Both the Vatican and the Philippines government said the event drew...
View ArticleShots Fired Near Vice President Biden's Delaware Residence Saturday Night
Gun shots rang out from a passing vehicle near U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's residence in Delaware on Saturday night, but the vice president and his wife were not at home, theU.S. Secret Service said...
View ArticleSuspected Boko Haram Fighters Kidnap Around 80 in Cameroon
Suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon, army...
View ArticleAuthor Q&A: ‘School Shooters: Understanding High School, College and Adult...
School shootings have pervaded the news and the national conversation in recent years, casting a shadow on what should be safe spaces devoted to learning. Scenes from Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy...
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