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‘Blazing Saddles’ marks a half-century of hilarity — and controversy

Released 50 years ago this week, Mel Brooks’ film broke Hollywood taboos while skewering racism.

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oldest living jew

Pearl Berg, world’s oldest Jewish person and 9th-oldest overall, dies at 114

“She didn’t smoke, she ate sensibly, she had good emotional balance and she clearly had remarkable genes,” said her youngest son.

The Canadian Parliament. (Wikimedia Commons)

Newly declassified documents reveal why Canada let convicted Nazi war criminals keep their citizenship

The revelations have come months after a political crisis surrounding the continued presence of former Nazis in Canada.

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Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, heads to Israel on his first overseas diplomatic trip

Politics

House and Senate are rushing competing Israel aid packages to the floor

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Obituaries

Lawrence Langer, renowned scholar of Holocaust testimony, dies at 94

Pope Francis, seen at a Holy Mass in Vatican City in June 2019. (Grzegorz Galazka/Archivio Grzegorz Galazka/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

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Pope Francis denounces ‘terrible increase in attacks against Jews around the world’

Religion

After Art Green sexual misconduct revelations, his students and followers reckon with the fallout

New York

Why this Upper East Side doctor is offering free plastic surgery to victims of antisemitism

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Grandson of Munich massacre victim assaulted in Berlin in alleged hate crime

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