Scandalous pope thriller starring Ralph Fiennes has shocking twists
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Scandalous pope thriller starring Ralph Fiennes has shocking twists

ByNews Polite

movie review CONCLAVE Running time: 120 minutes. Rated PG (thematic material and smoking). In theaters Nov. 8. You could call “Conclave,” the juicy new Vatican thriller starring Ralph Fiennes, a pope opera.  Director Edward Berger’s movie, which played Monday in the Toronto International Film Festival, is no sober depiction of…

Rabbi Deborah Bravo on the surge in anti-Semitism and life as a female rabbi
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Rabbi Deborah Bravo on the surge in anti-Semitism and life as a female rabbi

ByNews Polite

How rabbi defies hate Rabbi Deborah Bravo about anti-Semitism’s upsurge: “It’s in non-Jewish plus Jewish areas. Long Island, my home, we’re a majority but — where there’s less of us — underlying hatred and racism is now prevalent.” What impelled a woman to become a rabbi? “I grew up in a liberal…