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Susan Subak

Dec 5, 2025, 11:25 AM

The White House effect: Jewish climate scientists clashed, but led the debate

This new documentary film about the political moment when the Republican candidate for president in 1988, George Bush Sr., promises to do something about global warming begins with the blistering heatwave of 1988. The directors, Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos...

Aug 23, 2025, 1:08 AM

The Sorrow and the Pity Revisited: Justes Femmes

Clotilde Gaillard, Righteous Among the Nations, honored 2007

Marcel Ophuls’ death earlier this year brought new viewers to his 1969 holocaust documentary, The Sorrow and the Pity, including myself. “ shattered the comforting myth that most of France had resisted the Nazis during World War II,” wrote...

Sep 8, 2023, 1:11 PM

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In Transatlantic’s Varian Fry story, Jews are not helping their own

Hanno Koffler as Hans Fittko, Deleila Piasko as Lisa Fittko, Cory Michael Smith as Varian Fry and Amit Rahav as Thomas Lovegrove in "Transatlantic." (Courtesy of Anika Molnar/Netflix via JTA)

The Netflix WWII drama leaves out Jewish organizations' vital support and paints religious Jews as too inept to survive

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Susan Subak is an environmental researcher and the author of the book, The Five-Ton Life: Carbon, America, and the Culture that May Save Us (University of Nebraska Press, 2018).

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