Dan Friedman | Authors

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Earliest item	9 Jan

Forward We're in a psychological war with 'the greatest propaganda machine in history' — will we survive it? 20 Jun

In "Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind" by Annalee Newitz, the book explores how stories have been weaponized throughout histor...

20 Jun

Forward A Transylvanian-American klezmer blues bash right at home at a Brooklyn fiddle summit 19 Apr

The article discusses a unique musical event, the Neighborhood Fiddle Summit in Brooklyn, featuring klezmer violinist Zo Aqua and the old-time string band Th...

19 Apr

Forward A Jewish sitcom from Britain gets remade in American suburbia — does the joke translate? 18 Apr

An American version of the British sitcom "Friday Night Dinner" set in a Jewish home has been created, titled "Dinner with the Parents." The American adaptat...

18 Apr

Forward Is Adam Sandler's Kafkaesque Tarkovskyesque Kubrickesque Netflix sci-fi drama better than it sounds? 5 Mar

In the Netflix sci-fi drama "Spaceman," Adam Sandler plays Jakub Procházka, a man on a solo mission to investigate a mysterious space cloud named Chopra. Dir...

5 Mar

Forward How a Jewish playwright's internal Israel-Palestine debate became a Russian doll of Trojan horses 29 Feb

Itamar Moses, following his Tony Award-winning musical "The Bands Visit," has two new plays premiering in New York: "Dead Outlaw" and "The Ally" at The Publi...

29 Feb

Forward A heartbreaking story of Nazi-era heroism — but why did it take so long for it to get here? 9 Jan

"One Life" is a new film based on the book "If It's Not Impossible," depicting the heroic efforts of a small group of middle-class Brits in the late 1930s wh...

9 Jan