Polish move to strip Holocaust expert of award sparks protests

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Click Here to Read: Polish move to strip Holocaust expert of award sparks protests: Princeton University professor Jan Tomasz Gross faces losing Order of Merit over comments Polish villagers were complicit in massacre of Jews Alex Duval Smith on the The Guardian on February 13, 2016.

Defeated Jewish families fleeing the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. Professor Jan Grosssaid Poles killed more ‘Jews than Germans during the war’. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection

Kirk and Spock bonded over real life anti-Semitism

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Click Here to Read: Kirk and Spock bonded over real life anti-Semitism.  In a new book, William Shatner says his longtime friend and colleague Leonard Nimoy was profoundly affected by anti-Jewish sentiment BYThe Times of Israel Staff in The Times of Israel on February 12, 2016.

Leonard Nimoy (left) and William Shatner in a ‘Star Trek’ poster, 1968 (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Continue reading Kirk and Spock bonded over real life anti-Semitism

TV: The Shame of Wisconsin

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Click Here to Read: TV: The Shame of Wisconsin, Review of Making a Murderer, a Netflix documentary series directed by Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos, Reviewed by Lorrie Moore in the New York Review of Books on February 25, 2016 Issue.

Steven Avery after his arrest in 1985 for a crime he did not commit, and for which he spent eighteen years in prison; from Making a Murderer