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Renowned children’s author and playwright Sir Michael Morpurgo will omit The Merchant of Venice from the children’s book based on Shakespeare’s plays he is working on because he doesn’t want to “offend” Jews: Sir Michael, 77, is modernising Shakespeare plays for children and teenagers in a book titled Tales from Shakespeare, designed to […]
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New Shakespeare Anthology For Children Omits ‘Merchant Of Venice’ For Fear Of ‘Offending’ the Tribe
January 8th, 2021 
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No Comments »Author omits ‘Merchant of Venice’ from anthology, citing antisemitism
January 5th, 2021 Awake Goy A popular British children’s author omitted “The Merchant of Venice” from his adaptation of William Shakespeare plays for young audiences. One reason: antisemitism. “Yes, there was some worry that this might be the first time an 8-year-old reads about a Jew,” Michael Morpurgo told The Guardian on Monday about the decision not to include the […]
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January 5th, 2021 Awake Goy Renowned children’s author and playwright Sir Michael Morpurgo will omit The Merchant of Venice from the children’s book based on Shakespeare’s plays he is working on because he doesn’t want to “offend” Jews: Sir Michael, 77, is modernising Shakespeare plays for children and teenagers in a book titled Tales from Shakespeare, designed to make them […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: anthology, children, merchant, offending, omits, shakespeare, venice No Comments »DREAM CATCHERS: POPS the CLUB Anthology
December 13th, 2020 Awake Goy What is POPS the Club? It transforms the lives of teens with incarcerated loved ones. POPS stands for Pain of The Prison System. 1 in 14 children has a parent who has been incarcerated. POPS gives these youth a safe place to grow and empower one another. The mission of POPS the Club is “to create […]
Anthology compiles 70 ways of (anxiously) thinking about Jewish past and future
October 15th, 2020 Awake Goy NEW YORK JEWISH WEEK — In a speech in 2013, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, declared he was living in a “Golden Age of the Jewish people,” in which anti-Semitism was down, Israel was a stable democracy and Jewish communities and creativity were flourishing more than “at almost any other […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: about, anthology, anxiously, compiles, future, Jewish, thinking No Comments »Editors of ‘Assuming Boycott’ anthology speak out against anti-Semitism controversy at Queens Museum
August 18th, 2017 Awake Goy The recent controversy over the Queens Museum’s handling of an event sponsored by the Israeli Mission to the UN has been condemned on the grounds of anti-Semitism. The evidence provided for this charge of anti-Semitism is that the director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich, edited a book entitled “Assuming Boycott: Resistance, Agency and Cultural […]
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