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Watch Robert Duvall As an Anti-Semitic Sociopath

In 1960, two years before he played the reclusive hero Boo Radley in the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, Robert Duvall played an anti-Semitic sociopath in a quickly forgotten film called Destiny’s Tot. Set in the early 1940s in a federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, the film was based on an actual psychological case study, and […]

This Jewish Scientist Discovered The Magic of THC

In the early 1960s, a Bulgarian-born scientist named Raphael Mechoulam was caught carrying five kilograms of, as he called it, “superb, smuggled Lebanese hashish” on a bus from Tel Aviv to Rehovot. But he wasn’t planning on smoking the stuff—or even making potzah brei. Mechoulam was a fledging researcher keen on exploring the science behind cannabis, […]

This Tiny Jew of Pennsylvania Led a Star-Studded, Enormous Life

Moishe Morris “Mace” Bugen was quite a sight. Standing three-and-a-half feet tall, Mace could be spotted driving “Hadassah” — a Jeep custom-fitted with extra-long pedals — around Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley from 1940 to 1980. The Jeep was quite a sight, too: It was plastered with blue-and-white stars and sported its name across the front. Bugen, […]