Posted on 01/25/2014 4:42:38 AM PST by SMGFan
Super Bowl commercials don't usually bring up human rights issues, but Scarlett Johansson has found herself right in the middle of a controversy over a SodaStream commercial planned for the big football event. Oxfam has objected to Johansson endorsing a product manufactured in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
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They really are two great novels.
I’ll have to check out your other recommendation...thanks.
If I may also chime in where the conversation involves one of my favorite authors, I would highly recommend “The Past Through Tomorrow,” a collection he called his Future History, including some of his most intriguing and thought-provoking short stories and novellas. Many of his later novels had their genesis in stories and characters introduced here.
You're correct. Her mother Melanie Sloan is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family.
She quit being an “ambassador” for OXFAM just recently after all of this.
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