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Ask JTF For July 6 Broadcast

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Trace:
Dear Chaim,

Do you agree that there is a big problem with a lack of Jewish heroes in movies? I can hardly think of any of them. In "Saving Private Ryan," Steven Spielberg makes the Jewish soldier a nebbishy guy who gets stabbed to death by a Nazi. In the film "Enemy at the Gates," the Jewish character is an ineffective soldier who doesn't even know how to use his own rifle. You hardly ever have a movie where there's a black nebbish or a black loser who can't get the girl or who can't stand up for himself, because in nearly every movie, the black characters are cool, powerful, macho, et cetera. But Jews in Hollywood churn out a never ending stream of movies with Jewish losers and jerks. Woody Allen is the Jewish equivalent of Step'n'Fetchit - but Jews think of him as something laudable, instead of as a traitor who gives his people a bad name. Jewish directors continue to crank out movies with Jewish nebbishes and dorks, and Jewish actors continue to play them. When will this ever end?

Nic Brookes:
How is Israpedia going?

Shouldn't the article saying how Yacov was an "inspirational force" be removed from Israpedia?

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