With Friends Like Oprah, Who Needs Irony?
Winfrey's next monthly selection is a Holocaust memoir. | story But her now-dubious stamp of approval is hardly a comfort.
One supposes that after losing all faith in Oprah by hearing her phony live endorsement of James Frey’s phony addiction saga, we should be mollified that she has chosen a book and an author with slightly more gravitas: “Night,” Elie Wiesel’s classic account of his lost childhood in Hitler’s death camps. Still, at a time when Holocaust denial has become an effective political strategy of jew-haters both here and abroad, Oprah’s now-dubious stamp of approval is hardly a comfort. | story
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The voice on the other end of the telephone needed to make sure that I was 21. I wasn’t. “I’m 22,” I said, lying, figuring that 19 might as well be 22 and, anyway, this was a comedy club that I was scheduling an audition for, not the Moonlite Bunny Ranch or the FBI.Back in the summer of 1982 I asked my mother if we had any Jewish ancestors.
You may recall Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel’s letter urging President Barack Obama to lay off of Jewish settlements in Jerusalem. A group of prominent intellectuals who actually live in the city have written their own withering response, calling Wiesel’s letter a fantasy “replete with factual errors and false representations.”
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