Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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Israel News Four Up, Four Down
On October 3, at the start of the baseball playoffs, Bruce Bukiet, an associate professor of Mathematical Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, ran his mathematical model for baseball games and issued his predictions of the winners: the Yankees, Twins, Dodgers and Padres. By October 9, all four teams had lost. What are…
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News Israel Seeks To Raise Profile of African Aid
At a recent symposium promoting Israeli aid to Africa, the Nigerian ambassador to America reflected on what he had learned in his previous post as ambassador to the Jewish state. The greatest lesson he took from those four years, he said, is that self-confidence is the key to a nation’s success. Africans, he opined, should…
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Culture Cruise Control
Imagine the perfect cruise — surrounded by peaceful waters, drifting past ancient towns, atmospheric music playing in the background. Now, if those waters and towns are Ukrainian, and that music you’re imagining is klezmer, have we got a cruise for you. In April 2007 (if all goes according to plan), a boat of 150 Jewish…
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News Column Stirs Campus: Is Brandeis ‘Too Jewish’?
A student opinion column in Brandeis University’s campus newspaper has enraged parents, students and alumni by suggesting that the school is too Jewish. In the April 4 column, titled “Brandeis: Too Jewish For Its Own Good,” sophomore Matt Brown, 19, argued that the pervasive Jewishness on campus was detrimental to student life and scared away…
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Israel News Gulf Coast Finds Its Fairy Godmother
Seven months after Hurricane Katrina crashed into Bay St. Louis, Miss., flooding the town and leaving houses and lives in shambles, many citizens are still short of such necessities as underwear. But on April 1, students at Bay St. Louis High School managed to show up for their prom like regular American high schoolers —…
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News For the Wise and Otherwise
If, as the Haggadah tells us, there are four types of children — wise, wicked, simple and oblivious — then there are two types of Passover children’s books. There are simple books, which give a straight rendition of the Passover story. These usually revolve around a family with an inquisitive child who does not know…
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Israel News Bias in the Meteor
According to biblical literalists, the heavens have already rendered their opinion on Israel’s borders. But now, it seems, the skies are offering a second opinion. On April 11 in New York, Bonhams & Butterfields is scheduled to auction off a series of meteorites, including a slice that looks suspiciously like Israel. A little distorted, perhaps,…
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Israel News The Scarlett Grandma
When Dorothy Sloan made her stage debut last week, she was following in her family’s footsteps — make that the world’s sexiest footsteps. Sloan, who appeared in an intergenerational song-and-dance number in New York, is the maternal grandmother of actress Scarlett Johansson. The star of Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation” (2003) and Woody Allen’s 2005…
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