On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, its significance is being trivialized by tourism and popular culture. At the same time, this symbol of evil is being transformed and ope

( JTA) — In a fraught moment in the film “A Real Pain,” Kieran Culkin, playing the more volatile of a pair of Jewish cousins who go on a roots tour of Poland, berates his fellow travellers for riding in a first-class train car in a country where so many Jews rode cattle cars to their deaths.

A few years ago, actor Jesse Eisenberg was writing a movie about two men on a road trip in Mongolia when an ad popped up on his screen, offering "Auschwitz tours, with lunch." "I clicked on the ad and it took me to a site for what you would imagine ...

It’s kind of like if Bernie Madoff sold Pokemon cards.” That’s how Bill Maher described the concept of meme coins, something that’s been in the news a lot lately. More broadly, it was a statement that combined culture,

played by Jesse Eisenberg, “Screw it. We’re owed this.” “I love that scene,” said Ari Richter, the author and illustrator of “Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz,” a “graphic family ...

played by Jesse Eisenberg, “Screw it. We’re owed this.” “I love that scene,” said Ari Richter, the author and illustrator of Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz, a “graphic family ...