Max Gross
By Max Gross
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News Conductor Recreates Requiem of Musical Defiance
Conductor Murry Sidlin was browsing through a table of used, tattered books when he discovered a slender book about the Terezin concentration camp that told an unusual musical story. According to the book, Terezin held a disproportionate number of artists and intellectuals. One inmate — Rafael Schachter of Prague — organized a chorus of prisoners….
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News Scenes From the Northeast: Even a Blackout Can’t Still Life’s Rites
CONNECTICUT As Sara Sternstein, 23, was about to get into her wedding gown the lights went off. Her husband-to-be, Laurence Hasson, 23, was already posing for wedding photos in the courtyard of the Hyatt Regency Greenwich hotel near a bubbling brook. Much to everyone’s amazement, the couple’s traditional Orthodox wedding — which they’d been planning…
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Israel News Muckraking Crusader Creeps Onto the Bestseller List
When investigative journalist Greg Palast published his account of voting irregularities that occurred in Florida during the 2000 presidential election, the state’s secretary of state, Katherine Harris, denounced his findings as “twisted.” Palast put that quote on his book jacket. “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” (Plume) details how — through hopeless incompetence at best,…
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Culture Doctor Writes ‘Epic Saga’ Of Jews in Medicine
As Frank Heynick was nearing the completion of his gigantic tome, “Jews and Medicine: An Epic Saga,” he came across the name of an important doctor, George Sternberg, whom he had neglected to mention. The discovery of Sternberg did not make Heynick happy. “I got through a lot of trimming to keep it at 600…
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Culture ‘Daylight Breaks’ for Canavan Boy
Jordana Holovach is tenacious. In the first few minutes of “As Daylight Breaks,” a documentary about Holovach, 33, and her 7-year-old son, Jacob Sontag, Holovach reads aloud the first page of her journal. “November 19, 2002,” the pretty, blond-haired Holovach says, without betraying any emotion. “My Jacob — my beautiful 6-year-and-9-month-old son — [was] diagnosed…
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News Cheerleader Changed from Raiderette to Rebbetzin
It is not uncommon to see a gaggle of NFL cheerleaders — covered up, of course, in unusually modest turtleneck sweaters and long skirts — lunching at one of the many kosher restaurants in Los Angeles. These former Los Angeles Raiders cheerleaders — Raiderettes, as they are called — are there to see one of…
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Culture Program Trains Teachers To Use Students’ Strengths
Rebecca Coen, an English teacher at Yavneh Hebrew Academy in Los Angeles, was going through her lesson one day when a hand went up. The seventh grader whose hand was raised asked Coen to slow down. “I’m having a real hard time with saliency determination,” the student explained. It’s not the kind of phrase that…
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News Countering Christian Missionaries and Messianists
Scott Hillman was in the lobby of a Virginia Beach hotel that was hosting a convention for messianic Jews when a woman approached him. “You’re a nice Jewish boy; don’t you know Yeshua HaMashiach [Jesus the Messiah] was predicted in the Tanakh?” she said in a thick Israeli accent. Hillman — executive director of the…
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