We ladies of the tribe always have had a tangled, knotty relationship with our hair. We’ve ironed, moussed, gelled and blow-dried it into submission. We’ve slept with it rolled on little pink sponges and wrapped around giant metal juice cans. While the dominant culture deified the pristine blond Breck girls of the ’50s and ’60s,…
WASHINGTON — With President Bush and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert set to meet next week, the White House is sending clear signals that it does not plan to offer an immediate public endorsement of the Israeli leader’s plan for unilateral pullbacks from the West Bank. This week Bush administration officials told a team of Olmert…
‘We’re in the people business. We stand for diversity,” Antonio “L.A.” Reid said to the crush of guests that he and his wife, Erica, were hosting for the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding’s April 25 benefit. Past foundation honoree Reid, chairman of The Island Def Jam Music Group, added, “Thank you for not spilling anything” —…
An Israeli-based spiritual institute has fired its main rabbi over sexual abuse claims, less than two years after several prominent American religious figures rallied to defend him against earlier allegations. At least five female students and staff members have come forward to accuse Rabbi Mordechai Gafni of luring them into sexual relationships through intimidation, psychological…
Notice of Qualification of 225 WEST 58 LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/17/06. Office location: NY County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 3/2/06. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o CT Corporation System, 111 8th…
LIMA, Peru — The decision by two leading members of Peru’s small Jewish community to support Ollanta Humala, a retired lieutenant colonel, for president has provoked outrage among other Jews here. Humala, a leftist with links to authoritarian Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, led the first election round April 9 with 30.5%, and is given nearly…
Isabel Rose has done much in her lifetime to debunk the stereotype of the JAP. Now that her hit debut novel, “The J.A.P. Chronicles” (Doubleday, 2005), is being staged as a musical, her crusade is gaining even more attention. “More than anything, I want to keep breaking down the stereotype of the JAP and to…
A Democratic candidate for Alabama’s attorney general’s office has been exposed as a Holocaust denier less than a month before the state’s June 6 primaries. Larry Darby believes that there were no more than 140,000 Jewish deaths during World War II — most of them having been brought on by typhus — and that the…
Exhibit Cloistered World: It might seem strange for a Jewish woman to spend significant amounts of time in the company of nuns, but in the context of Israeli-born photographer Lili Almog’s work, it’s completely logical. Almog, who is currently based in New York, has dedicated much of her artwork to capturing women’s private lives on…
A firestorm has erupted in the Netherlands over a government minister’s move to strip a Somali-born politician — and outspoken critic of radical Islam — of her Dutch citizenship. The Dutch parliament passed two motions Wednesday ordering Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk to reconsider her move to revoke Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s citizenship. Both women are members…
She is usually associated with abstract photographs that reveal human characteristics in nature, but Israeli artist Michal Ronnen Safdie stepped into a different role behind the lens of her camera when she traveled to Rwanda in October 2002 and to Chad in September 2004. In Rwanda, Safdie documented the Gacaca (pronounced ga-CHA-cha), traditional, citizen-based trials…
