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Ask JTF for Sunday, January 17, 2010
patches:
Shalom Chaim,
Could G-d make a rock so heavy He Himself could not pick it up?
Thanks,
Patches
Trace:
Shalom Chaim,
Why do so many self-hating Jews have such a whiny, nasal, weaselly sounding voice? And why is it that righteous people tend to have powerful, confident voices? (I think you have a very commanding voice, for instance.) I think a man's voice says a lot about him. Could you do a Joseph Lieberman impersonation?
Jorje15:
Dear Chaim,
What are your thoughts on the recent Haiti insadent? What are your thoughts on the country of Haiti?
Dr. Dan:
Shalom chaim
Can you tell us about the extraordinary personality of Rebekah, Yitzhak's wife, from the time Eliezer chose her to marry Yitzhak? What was he special quality and what can wives and husbands of today learn? What are some of the deliberate things the Torah describes about her? What are some of the commentary of our great Sages?
Thank you
Dr. Dan
davinci:
Shalom Chaim
I am sure you are familiar with Jewish film director Stanley Kubrick who lived from 1928 - 1999.
His films are literally worshipped by so-called "intellectuals" and he is considered to be a genius.
Watching his films I am not so convinced about it. In almost all his films he created a cold aseptic G-dless atmosphere. I was always "freezed" after watching his films.
There is another thing in his life which is even more disturbing. In 1958 Kubrick married Christiane Harlan who is the niece of Veit Harlan (that means the father of Christiane Harlan and Veit Harlan were brothers).
As you mentioned different times, Jews are not allowed to marry non-Jews. Kubrick didn't bother much when he married this German woman.
But there is another point which is also very troubling. Veit Harlan, the uncle of Kubrick's wife Christiane Harlan, was a famous film director in Nazi Germany. In 1940 he shot one of the most terrible antisemitic films in the history of cinema, "Jud Süss".
This film depicts Jews in a horrible way and the production of this propaganda work was in control by Joseph Goebbels (may he burn in hell forever).
Veit Harlan's first wife was Dora Gerson, a Jewish woman whom he divorced 2 years later after his marriage in 1922. She was murdered in 1943 in Auschwitz.
Now, the wife of Stanley Kubrick never condemned publicly her uncle which would have been the absolute least to do. I even heard that a son of this Nazi film director defends him saying that his father wasn't an antisemite because one of his best friend was a Jew.
Why in the world didn't Stanley Kubrick bother when he married this German woman of Nazi descent?
So I have 2 questions:
What do you think about Kubrick :
1. as a person
2. as an artist?
Regards
davinci
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