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Cultures clashed in a Midtown screening room this week when an upcoming documentary touting Sarah Palin's accomplishments was unveiled for conservative taste-makers directly across the hall from new gay romance "Weekend.""It was quite a dichotomy," one attendee said of the worlds in collision. Director Stephen K. Bannon booked his Palin documentary, "The Undefeated," into Magno, a regular haunt for New York's film industry, for a series of back-to-back screenings on Wednesday. Guests included a cross-section of Palin supporters, Bannon said, including members of a group called Jews for Sarah. "The 'Undefeated' director was guarding the door to the Palin screening...

BETHESDA, Md. — Sarah Palin boasted to a group of anti-abortion advocates Saturday that she had a chance to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner — but chose to spend her time with them instead. "The pro-life cause or White House Correspondents' Dinner? I choose life," Palin told a crowd of about 200 at a fundraiser for the anti-abortion advertising group Heroic Media. Palin said journalism's nerd prom didn't have the same appeal for her as presidential hopefuls who attended, like Donald Trump, Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman. "You really see evidence of that influence out there of — you...

Driving to Lancaster from Philadelphia Friday afternoon, my wife and I passed through a town named Ephrata. In was named after the town that, in ancient times, was part of the city of Bethlehem; today it is a thriving Israeli city of 8,000-plus. Friends and colleagues who were meeting us in Lancaster passed towns named Bethlehem, Nazareth, Lebanon, and Zion. Early Pennsylvanians believed, as many modern ones do, in the Divine promise that the exiled Jews would be returned to the land of Bethlehem and Zion. How appropriate, I thought, to help usher in our Shabbat with Governor Palin, an...