Anthony Weiss
By Anthony Weiss
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News Fast Forward Listening for the 1950s, Keeping an Eye Out For Kitsch
Scrounging through flea markets, rummage sales and shipments from generous grandparents, Josh Kun and Roger Bennett are on a mission to save one of America’s disappearing treasures: mid-century Jewish record album covers. Operating under the collective pseudonym “Hippocampus,” Kun and Bennett are seeking to preserve for posterity such rare and valuable specimens as “Mambo Moish”…
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News Andrea Bronfman, 60, Philanthropist
More than 1,500 mourners attended an emotional memorial service in New York Wednesday for Andrea Bronfman, 60, one of the most respected figures in Jewish philanthropy and wife of billionaire Charles Bronfman. Bronfman died Monday after being struck by a livery cab outside her Fifth Avenue apartment. She was described this week as intense, detail…
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Israel News Critics Circle Golden Globe
And the award goes to… Palestine? The Golden Globes caused something of a stir last week when the award for best foreign film went to “Paradise Now,” a feature film about a pair of Palestinian suicide bombers. Israel, in particular, was irked that the film was listed as being from “Palestine.” “There is no state…
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Culture Photographer Puts the Whole Jewish World in Focus
Zion Ozeri has made his living photographing Jews all over the world, from the mountains of Yemen to the streets of New York to the jungles of Peru. He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums and has published his photographs in newspapers, books and magazines. And now, Ozeri is bringing his work to…
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Culture Photographer Puts the Whole Jewish World in Focus
Zion Ozeri has made his living photographing Jews all over the world, from the mountains of Yemen to the streets of New York to the jungles of Peru. He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums and has published his photographs in newspapers, books and magazines. And now, Ozeri is bringing his work to…
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Culture Adults Explore Faith in Holocaust Class
In the face of injustice and suffering, can one believe in God? Why do bad things happen to good people? How can civilized people torture and murder? In 160 cities around the world, students recently explored these questions in “Beyond Never Again,” a new adult education course about the Holocaust. Chabad’s Jewish Learning Institute offers…
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Culture Adults Explore Faith in Holocaust Class
In the face of injustice and suffering, can one believe in God? Why do bad things happen to good people? How can civilized people torture and murder? In 160 cities around the world, students recently explored these questions in “Beyond Never Again,” a new adult education course about the Holocaust. Chabad’s Jewish Learning Institute offers…
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News Israel May Scuttle Evangelical Complex
The Israeli Tourism Ministry is threatening to block the Rev. Pat Robertson’s plan for an evangelical center alongside the Sea of Galilee, after the televangelist suggested last week that Prime Minister Sharon’s stroke was a punishment from God. “We cannot do business with him after these words,” ministry spokesman Ido Hartuv told the Forward. “We…
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