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As for Hispanics, there's one Spanish-surnamed guy, Matt Yglesias, who has a white Cuban grandfather, but doesn't particularly consider himself Hispanic and instead identifies as Jewish-American, due to his three Jewish grandparents.
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On June 10, the White House's senior director for the Middle East, Steven Simon, told Jewish-American leaders that the international community had roughly a month to convince Mr. Abbas to give up his campaign at the U.N., according to participants in the conference call.
U.S. Pushes New Effort on Peace in Mideast Jay Solomon 2011
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What they forgot, however, was that they were doing so within the context of a horrific historical event in which a completely innocent wheelchair-bound Jewish-American passenger, with no connection to the political events purportedly behind the highjacking, was shot in cold blood, in the forehead and chest, as he sat in his wheelchair, his body then being dumped into the sea at the command of the terrorists by the ship's barber and waiter.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Does the English National Opera's 'Death of Klinghoffer' Romanticize Terror? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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As a Jewish-American writer, Levin known here as Sid Silver was deeply committed to keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: Compulsion Fern Siegel 2011
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What they forgot, however, was that they were doing so within the context of a horrific historical event in which a completely innocent wheelchair-bound Jewish-American passenger, with no connection to the political events purportedly behind the highjacking, was shot in cold blood, in the forehead and chest, as he sat in his wheelchair, his body then being dumped into the sea at the command of the terrorists by the ship's barber and waiter.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Does the English National Opera's 'Death of Klinghoffer' Romanticize Terror? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2012
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Its themes, pace Callil, are the constant themes of Roth's mature fiction – the sexual identity of the Jewish-American male and the troubling complexities of his relationship with the opposite sex.
Philip Roth: Still fascinated by himself | Observer profile 2011
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It sold over a million copies and was hailed as a masterpiece of Jewish-American literature.
Writer's Block? Get Nacreous! Con Chapman 2011
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Several years later, now the owner of a small cinema in Paris, Shosanna plots against the Nazis, her vendetta following a parallel course to that of the "basterds," a corps of Jewish-American soldiers bent on exacting quick and painful vengeance on all Nazis who cross their path.
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Jewish-American historian Sander Gilman, in his classic book "Jewish Self-Hatred," has shown how anti-Semitic metaphors and images were internalized by Jewish self-understanding in the late 19th century.
Carlo Strenger: Orthodox Anti-Semitism Directed At Israel's Liberals Carlo Strenger 2011
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Leading the resistance: Brad Pitt is Lt. Aldo Raine of the "basterds," Jewish-American soldiers getting revenge on the Nazis.
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