Nadja Spiegelman
By Nadja Spiegelman
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Life Madoff Décor: ‘Queens Baroque’ at Home; Austere at the Office
Last week’s color photographs of Hitler’s home got us wondering: Do all dictators have awful taste? North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is well known for his gaudiness and these paintings from Saddam Hussein’s collection of fantasy art look like they’ve been rescued from beneath the bed of a teenage video game aficionado. And now there’s…
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Life You Might Also Like … Hitler Up Close
Photographs of Hitler that were literally buried underground are now available in snappy bright albums on Life Magazine’s Web site. Four themed Web galleries (intimate portraits, Hitler among the crowds, Hitler’s interiors, and Hitler’s childhood) contain images by Hitler’s personal photographer and close friend, Hugo Jaeger. The Web site is somewhat hard to navigate —…
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Life Singing ‘Shalom Aleichem’ at the German Reichstag
A fully kosher Sabbath dinner was held recently inside the German Reichstag building, of all places. It was the first time a Jewish ceremony has ever been held inside the building, which has been the seat of the German Parliament since 1894. The dinner was held in the same hall where the German Republic declared…
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Life Million Dollar Mattress
An Israeli woman has workers at landfill sites all over Tel Aviv desperately searching for an old mattress that she threw away, the Associated Press reports. The woman, identified only as Anat, says the mattress is stuffed with nearly $1 million. She had surprised her mother with a new mattress, and tossed out the old…
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Life Neo-Nazi Highway Renamed for a Rabbi
A half-mile stretch of highway adopted by a neo-Nazi group now bears a rabbi’s name. The National Socialist Movement of Springfield, MO recently adopted a stretch of highway near their hometown. The adoption failed to attract much attention until the neo-Nazis cleaned the roadway wearing swastikas and clutching white pride flags, and photographing themselves beneath…
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Life Bar Refaeli — Minus the Swimsuit
If you thought Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli’s appearance on the cover of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue in 2007 stirred things up, wait until you see this: The Huffington Post just released photos of Refaeli’s cover for next month’s Esquire — and this time there’s not even a bikini. Completely nude and covered in what seems…
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