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Nazi doctors weren't just ‘a few bad apples’, shows report – and simplistic stories won't help guard against future medical abuses

Extraordinary evil involves a total moral collapse across society caused by failure of individual humanity and ethical judgment. This was the conclusion of the philosopher Hannah Arendt after witnessing the trial of Adolf Eichmann – the chief architect of the Holocaust – in Jerusalem.

The Conversation

Is it time to reconsider the idea of 'the banality of evil'?

After attending the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt claimed what was terrifying about this man was not his moral monstrosity. It was his sheer normality. She subtitled her 1963 book on the subject, Eichmann in Jerusalem, “a report on the…

The Conversation

Hostages’ families clash with Israeli politicians over talk of death penalty

Far-right politicians want to execute militants convicted of 7 October attacks, but relatives say this risks lives of Gaza hostages

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UK Jewish Film Festival 2023: our pick of this year's stellar line-up, from One Life to The Goldman Case

The festival's 27th edition will showcase an incredible variety of feature films, shorts and documentaries

Evening Standard

TV tonight: Lenny Henry’s fond, soulful Windrush drama

From Jamaica to Dudley: three women receive a chilly welcome in the UK. Plus, another Attenborough nature epic arrives, touting whales, sea angels and archerfish. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

From Killers of the Flower Moon to the Streets: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s Martin Scorsese’s latest epic about bad men doing bad things, or Mike Skinner’s languid rap alter ego, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

Argentina Restaurant Faces Backlash For Holocaust-Themed Menu

Local Jewish community threatens legal action over controversial dishes named after Hitler and Anne Frank

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Roseanne Barr faces backlash for Holocaust comments: 'Sarcasm or not, it's reprehensible and irresponsible'

If you're wondering why "She's Jewish" was trending on Twitter Tuesday evening, it's because Roseanne Barr is under fire ... again.

Los Angeles Times

The book that changed me: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem and the problem of terrifying moral complacency

Hannah Arendt published Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil in 1963. Over the next two decades alone, it would be republished some 30 times, first in the United States and then Britain, as debate swirled around both its arguments and its author.

The Conversation

On the Day Before the World Series

As I sat down to write today’s newsletter, I couldn’t help but think of the title of an episode of The West Wing, “On the Day Before.” Today, of course, is the day before the World Series, so I naturally wanted to make “On the Day Before” the title and…

Sports Illustrated

‘He could not expel the trauma’: Sidney Nolan’s Auschwitz paintings revealed in landmark show

Preoccupied with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany, the artist painted 220 works in just four weeks: a ‘rambling, tumbling turmoil’ that he did not speak of for decades

The Guardian - AU

The imposition of the yellow star on Jews in France, 80 years on

On May 29, 1942, a German order made it compulsory for all Jews over the age of 6 years old living in France’s occupied zone to wear a yellow star. This discriminatory measure came into effect just over a week later – and contributed to the process of mass deportations…

France 24

Eichmann prosecutor, Israeli justice Gabriel Bach dies at 94

Gabriel Bach, an Israeli prosecutor in the 1961 trial of notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann who went on to serve on the country’s Supreme Court, has died

The Independent UK

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