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Brand of the Jews
Wednesday May 16, 2012
(Photo courtesy of Reuters)
In 1945, after the war, Roberto Rossellini burst onto the international scene giving birth to the neorealist movement. Taking place in Rome, he called his first film in this genre, “Open City.”
After some 100,000 sorties and 60,000 tons of bombs dropped by the Allies, Rome had finally been freed from Axis occupation.
Twenty-two-years later, another religiously famous city became...
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Friday May 04, 2012
Imagine this: It’s Wednesday, Nov. 7th 2012 and Mitt Romney just lost the election. Since he ain’t goin’ to Disneyworld, what should he be thinking? What went wrong?
One big word jumps to mind — branding. Brands stand for something and Mr. Romney never gave a clear, consistent brand message. He was, from the outset, defined as being inconsistent.
This week President Obama launched a new 7:17 minute...
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Monday Apr 23, 2012
Flotillas. Flytillas. Israel Apartheid Week. BDS. And now, hunger strikes.
These are not the traditional, violent tools used for decades by Yasser Arafat and his brutal band of terrorists.
Rather, by surreptitiously disguising behind Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King’s non-violent methods of social protest, the methods of these pro–Palestinian activists have morphed.
Having been painted as violent...
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Tuesday Apr 17, 2012
(Courtesy of Univerisity of Nebraska Press)
Because of its sizeable Jewish population prior to WWII, the Jewish community of Vilnius, Lithuania (now vanished) was once called the “Jerusalem of the North.” Indeed, the United States Holocaust Museum reports that before the war the Jewish population of Lithuania was 160,000.
Yet unlike Western European countries that were liberated, the incorporation of...
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Monday Apr 09, 2012
(Cast of Mad Men courtesy of Reuters)
To peer back in time via AMC’s hit show “Mad Men” is like gazing into an old GAF Viewmaster. The advertising world it nostalgically depicts, often referred to as the “creative revolution,” is frozen in a Purgatorial time warp. Each cultural meme of the show – from the Brylcreemed hair to the mod clothes donned by Don Draper – is a still frame with a Technicolor...
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About This Blog
Writer, adman, PR pro & martial arts maven, Abe Novick examines Judaism through the lens of pop culture. A contributor to JPost since 1995, he is...
Writer, adman, PR pro & martial arts maven, Abe Novick examines Judaism through the lens of pop culture. A contributor to JPost since 1995, he is President & Owner of AbeBuzz.com.
