Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

After Steven Spielberg completed “Schindler’s List,” about entrepreneur Oskar Schindler’s saving of more than 1,000 Jews during World War II, he established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. The nonprofit’s intent was...

Lost Like Gollum

SANE Australia, a national organization for the mentally ill, paid special attention to media comments about Gollum in The Return of the King back in December. The group included references to Gollum in its “Stigma Files,” which catalogue inaccurate or...

‘Judas’

Why did Judas Iscariot betray Jesus Christ? Many will of course say the betrayal was divinely ordained, and they’ll leave it at that. They won’t seek to understand historical context or human motive. Not so with ABC’s upcoming movie...

‘The Passion of the Christ’

Before the first frame of the movie ever came up, a couple on the theater’s back row was making sure tissues would be handy. Sure enough, before Jesus made it out of the Garden of Gethsemane—the opening sequence of “The Passion of the Christ”—those...