Pitcher gave up the Shot Heard 'Round the World Plus Syrian ships shell Syrian city, and more in the news Admitted murderer says he doesn't know why he killed lost 8-year-old boy Iconic Jewish-owned food store sells trayf, gets it wrong  | |  In a new HBO documentary, Gloria Steinem is treated like the icon she is. But efforts to praise and eulogize her feminism don't do the subject—or the liveliness of the movement she helped inspire—justice. The new documentary Gloria: In Her Own Words, which airs tonight on HBO, treats its subject, Gloria Steinem, like the icon she is. Produced and directed by Peter Kunhardt, a filmmaker who has turned his lens on such august subjects as the Kennedys, Gloria depicts Steinem in the requisite soft light, with its subject sitting on a sofa in her New York City apartment as snippets of her own sentences float across the screen and images of her in earlier years fade in and out. Driven by archival photographs and footage, the hour-long film is a cursory walk down memory lane. It's a gently reverent look at one of the more significant figures of the past 50 years—and one unlikely to inspire much following in her footsteps. More  | In Wayne Hoffman's new novel, Sweet Like Sugar, a young gay man and an older Orthodox rabbi—who believes the Torah fobids homosexuality—find a way to bridge their differences and become friends More |  | Jews have always been keen on joining revolutions. Some revolutionaries, like Emma Goldman, sought to change the minds of workers; others, like Richard Feynman, looked to change our understanding of matter. More | |
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