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Brooklyn Artist Thinks Big
About six years ago, artist Archie Rand was musing on the question of the love of God. “I’m sitting with a friend of mine and I said, you know, there’s something about the relentlessness of affection,” Rand said. “And I said, John Coltrane was very grateful to God, and said so. And then he made…
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Birthday Bash at Shea Stadium
The New York Mets will celebrate Israel’s 60th birthday when they host the Los Angeles Dodgers later this month. Asaf Shariv, consul general of Israel in New York, will throw out a first pitch at the May 29 game, and the American group Parparim Ensemble will perform Israeli folk dance during the pre-game ceremony. Baseball…
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Shmoozer To Head JTA
The Shmooze wishes to congratulate Ami Eden on his appointment as editor in chief of the Jewish news service JTA. Eden was named to the position on May 14, effective immediately, and will oversee all news coverage and editorial content for JTA. A former executive editor of the Forward (and the inventor of The Shmooze),…
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Fashion Maven’s Yiddish Style
As the creative director of the hip department store Barneys, and the author of four books and a regular column on style in The New York Observer, Simon Doonan has established himself as one of New York’s chief purveyors of cool. Expectedly, his writing includes the occasional French phrase, standard when discussing haute couture and…
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Soccer Finals’ Jewish Flavor
The May 21 finals of the European Champions League, soccer’s most prized club competition, will have a decidedly Jewish flavor. Not on the field of the Loujniki stadium in Moscow, where none of the 22 players of English teams Manchester United and Chelsea will be Jewish — but on the sidelines. To wit, in the…
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Letter to Israel
The 15th letter of the Hebrew alphabet will be getting a lot of attention this year. The samech, which represents the number 60, has taken form in California as an 8-feet tall, 400-pound sculpture. Created by the artist Kingsley, the piece — an interactive musical work of art— was commissioned to commemorate Israel’s 60th anniversary….
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Never Forget: Hip-Hop Artist Looks to Youth
‘Does anybody have a tissue?” Grammy Award-winning hip-hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari asked. “I’m having a moment.” Ben-Ari’s “moment” came in the middle of a Yom HaShoah kickoff event for the Gedenk Foundation, the Holocaust education program she recently founded. Gedenk plans to raise awareness of the Shoah through popular music and media, and to reach…
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Israel, Through the Decades
To honor the 60th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel, the Forward asked a number of prominent Israelis to reflect on the six decades of history they have lived through. Their narratives provide a fresh, startlingly honest look at the history of the Jewish state, as seen through the eyes of those…
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Before Independence: The Meaning of a Jewish State
What we knew about Israel back then, in the months before and in the months and early years after, was derived 10% or so from newsreels and 90% from Zionist youth movements, Hebrew schools, now and then a newspaper or a book. The world was different before television, and the first years of television were…
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The 1950s: Fighting a War for Survival
In the first years after World War II, people around the world wanted nothing more than to recuperate and forget the horrors they had been through. It was an era of consumerism, affluence and good feelings. But in Israel we did not have that luxury. As the war ended, we were moving from one fight…
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The 1960s: The New Israelis
It is sometimes said that the social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s passed Israel by because of our special circumstances here. It’s not true. Israel underwent a cultural revolution of its own during that decade. What happened in Israel in the 1960s was a turnabout in the spirit and ethos of Zionism. During the…
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