Tom L. Freudenheim
By Tom L. Freudenheim
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Letters Letter: AIPAC’s Jews Are Engaged – But Only With Israel
To the Editor: In Batya Ungar-Sargon’s recent article reporting on this year’s AIPAC conference, I was especially struck by her quoting a “Jewish community leader” who told her that “the Pew [Research Center] study and other data suggest that well over half of American Jews do not participate in Jewish life. In the course of…
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Culture Where’s ‘Wally’?
Sometime in the mid-1990s I was asked by a Jewish arts organization to arrange an art trip to Europe — preferably to look at modern and contemporary art. I immediately suggested that we visit German art museums, since there are so many of them and they have been so active in those fields of collecting…
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The Schmooze New York Philharmonic Puts On a Light and Sound Show Worthy of Creation
After listening to and viewing a rehearsal for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s presentation of “In Seven Days,” the 2008 concerto for piano and moving image by Thomas Adès and Tal Rosner being performed January 7 and 8 at Avery Fisher Hall, I was ready to become a creationist. Not that the piece works to…
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Culture Not Just a Friend of Gauguin
Despite my voraciously Jewish eye, checking out museums in France’s Brittany for interesting exhibitions wasn’t likely to yield anything of Jewish Interest. “Brittany and Jews” seemed a stretch — maybe like “the elephant and the Jewish problem.” What I knew of art in Brittany was exemplified in the hard-bitten sensibility of the three unidentified women…
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Culture From Berlin to Buffalo
Growing up in the 1940s, when my family members and I were still relatively new Americans, there were various German words I heard often around the house: Sicherheitsnadel (safety pin) — my mother always seemed to be looking for one. Füllfederhalter (fountain pen) — my father was very devoted to Parker pens. Wickelkommode (changing table)…
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