Jennifer Siegel
By Jennifer Siegel
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Culture Shalom, Wall: Jewish Artists Go Graffiti
The graffiti art on display at the Sunshine Factory café on Manhattan’s Lower East Side has the bold and gritty feel of New York’s streets. On one canvas, gold lettering floats above a field of green paint speckled with white and purple. In a drawing on the opposite wall, a break-dancer’s tracksuit and gold chains…
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News Christie’s Offering A Little Shpritz Of Memorabilia
This week at Christie’s, the venerable British auction house: an oil on canvas by Stephen J. Renard (British, b. 1947), titled “Yankee, Ranger and Endeavour II.” Estimate: $30,000-50,000. Also at Christie’s this week: A bunch of Jewish tchotchkes, including ceramic spittoons, seltzer bottles and hand-painted Yiddish signs. Estimate: Priceless. Since July 19, visitors to the…
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Culture On Exhibit: The Infamous 1492 Decree
The original decree ordering the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492 will come to New York this month, as part of an exhibit commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of Queen Isabella I. Titled “Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Two Worlds (1451-1504),” the presentation also will feature illuminated manuscripts, rare documents, 17th-century paintings,…
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Israel News Louis Vuitton’s Vichy Ties Alleged
First, it was the Mercedes, then it was the Swiss bank account. Now, women’s beloved Louis Vuitton handbags may be the next high-class item to be tainted by the Holocaust. According to a report in The Guardian, a new book alleges that both the company and members of the Vuitton family supported the Vichy regime,…
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Culture California Dreaming: When Boundaries Are Emotional
The year is 1979, and eighth grader Jill Wasserstrom lives in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood. A budding leftist, she spends Friday nights eagerly preparing to defend the Ayatollah Khomeini in her social studies class, or writing a subversive bat mitzvah speech that proclaims the Torah an “outdated, mythological document.” Meanwhile, her older sister, Michelle,…
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