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The present time may seem turbulent, as it so often does, but if this is what Israel had achieved in its first 75 years, what even greater things will we achieve in the next 75?

Jews in Space does appear to be in the works, as a character in a Star Trek-type costume with a Star of David can be seen in the trailer.

It's not quite the Adolf Hitler who ran Germany from 1933-1945, but the singing, high-kicking Hitler imagined by Mel Brooks in his classic 1967 comedy, “The Producers.”

Brooks and his late friend and comedy partner Carl Reiner both sheepishly admit that their go-to order was the ham-and-cheese sandwich.

“Jewish comedy was softer and sweeter. New York comedy was tougher and more explosive,” Brooks, 95, tells The New Yorker.

“I can’t wait to once more tell the real truth about all the phony baloney stories the world has been conned into believing are History!” Brooks told Variety.

Is such mockery of someone with a potential life-threatening illness morally acceptable?

Max Brooks’ book, "World War Z," was recently in the headlines because many noticed parallels between how Israel handles the zombie invasion in the movie version and how it is dealing with the virus.

Not only is it all right to ridicule Nazis, but making fun of them can have a positive impact.

The making of The Producers is one of the most interesting parts of Funny Man, Patrick McGilligan’s highly detailed but disappointingly pedestrian new biography of Brooks.

Alan Yentob’s Mel Brooks: Unwrapped is a portrait of the beloved comic filmmaker (Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) at 92.