Pop culture is crazy religious. Lilit Marcus is on the case.
Comedian/firebrand Joan Rivers (real name: Joan Rosenberg) recently made a joke that some Jews weren’t super happy with. While doing Oscars fashion commentary for E!, Rivers commented on Heidi Klum’s outfit: “The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens.” The Jewish watchdog group the Anti Defamation [...]
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Mel Gibson is an anti-Semite. But to the possible surprise of like five people, it turns out that the guy is also a Holocaust denier and believer in blood libel. Screenwriter Joe Ezterhas, who is responsible for the brilliance that is Showgirls, wrote an open letter to Gibson [...]
In the October issue of Nylon magazine, actor Anton Yelchin (best known for playing Chekhov in the JJ Abrams Star Trek reboot) talks about his family’s struggle to leave Russia and the antisemitism they experienced there. His parents, Viktor and Irina, were pairs figure skaters in the 1970s and even qualified for the national Olympic [...]
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