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Having fought Nazis in two blockbuster films set during World War II, Brad Pitt recently bought a toy that once belonged to the real-life bad guys. The three-time Oscar nominee purchased a rare 1942 motorbike used for Nazi reconnaissance missions for about $387,000, the Daily Mirror reported. The bike, which the Nazis rode across the mountains of Crete, Greece’s largest […]

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Cristoph Waltz, best known as Dr. King Schultz in “Django Unchained” and Col. Hans Landa in “Inglorious Basterds,” is headed to Israel for his daughter’s wedding in Jerusalem. Waltz has three children with his Jewish ex-wife (one of his son’s is an Orthodox rabbi!) and he’s headed to his daughter, Miriam’s wedding in J-town next week, according to the […]

Critics, pundits and Jewish leaders have reflected on the question of whether it’s a healthy thing for American Jews to take pleasure in the on-screen brutalization and murder of German soldiers and civilians. But Quentin Tarantino’s film is less about the ethics of vengeance than the definition of evil.

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